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South Africa has disability grants but a doctor deemed his tuberculosis patient was not poor enough.

A brave little girl inspired a new ‘tumour paint’ to indicate to surgeons which tissue to remove.

Rare diseases lead to development of new drugs that, like other rare commodities command high prices.

Alopecia or hair loss can devastate your self-esteem, unless you hold your head up high.

Loss of this sense affects taste and also damages a person’s sense of emotional place in the world.

Community chemists say racial profiling and gated network are putting them out of business.

Instead of the care she sought, a vulnerable patient found further distress in a PE hospital.

A Western Cape project is looking to make free vaccines available in private clinics, but the Eastern Cape has stopped the practice.

A centre employing only men has opened in Khayelitsha to address the needs of males uneasy about being seen at mixed-gender facilities.

Mental health patients in Johannesburg's East Rand are hard hit by the unavailability of medication.

The minister insists there is no problem, but too many health centre cupboards are bare.

Patients are subject to wild mood swings and costly spending sprees,but they can be treated with the right medicine - and a lot of money.

Communities are bringing HIV monitoring and dispensing out of the clinics and into their homes.

A cruel, unrelenting cycle of poverty, drinking and fetal alcohol syndrome robs families of all hope.

A quarter of public clinics ran out of HIV and TB medication last year, a survey has found.

Homeopathy may now be regulated but many remedies remain untested.