Juta MedicalBrief

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector is expanding rapidly globally – with the US, especially, speeding up efforts to embed the technology as an integral part of medical care – but locally, experts say while it could fundamentally change how South Africans understand, manage and improve their health, AI must strengthen human capability, not replace...

Residents of Mafefe village in Limpopo are being screened for asbestos-related illnesses as government moves to address contamination from abandoned mines that closed more than 30 years ago following the asbestos-linked death of a 48-year-old man this year, reports Health-e News.

Mampuru Thobejane died in April, with his father, Chief Setlamor...

A High Court application by compounding pharmacy iDexis for leave to appeal against an interim order prohibiting it from making medicines containing semaglutide has been dismissed, with the judge describing the application as “an abuse of process”, reports Business Day.

In June, the court upheld an application against iDexis b...

The new TB vaccines expected to become available from 2029 could save more than 7m lives over a decade, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, said this week, but only if sufficient supp...

Stats SA has defended its population data, which the National Department of Health said last week may have skewed its estimates of childhood vaccination coverage – and which reflected that more than 30% of babies under 12 months had not been immunised, reports Business Day.

Numerous health experts have since flagged the crisis...