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South Africa has normalised heavy drinking and policy alone won’t change that – it has to be a cultural shift. Photo: File

Stop ignoring the heavy drinking red flags

It will take more than policy to change South Africans’ excessive use of alcohol; we all need to take part in the Sober Curious movement

South Africa must treat the conditions that breed diabetes, including by making healthy food affordable. Photo: File

Diabetes is a disease that thrives on inequity

South Africa must treat the conditions that breed diabetes, including by making healthy food affordable

Doctors will need to pay attention not only to a patient’s physical health but also the person’s emotional, social and psychospiritual aspects.

National Health Insurance system will mean little if we don’t offer the right kind of care

Although the NHI offers much-needed reform, it must find a new way to care for patients – an approach that treats people emotionally, physically, socially, psychologically and spiritually

Artificial intelligence enables earlier detection, faster treatment decisions and precision treatment for individuals. (Photo by Travis Dove for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

AI paves the way for personalised cancer care

Artificial Intelligence enables earlier detection, faster treatment decisions and precision treatment, but data quality and high costs limit its use

On 8 March 2023 , Mbali Hlela Bulunga, a 12-year-old girl, passed through a portal of pain and went to her peace, after first being diagnosed with leukaemia six years earlier.

Cancer: This time it came for me

We are still mourning the death of my 12-year-old daughter Mbali after she was treated for leukaemia

Face it: Louise Westerhout’s bold artistry subverts societal narratives on queerness, disability and mortality. Photo: Lauren Brits

‘I’m not someone you can pity’

Louise Westerhout speaks about her challenging art and — the art of dying without fear

Among NCDs is diabetes, which is likely to afflict 8.75 million people by 2040 and requires urgent government intervention

Diabetes the top non-communicable disease killer in South Africa

Among NCDs is diabetes, which is likely to afflict 8.75 million people by 2040 and requires urgent government intervention

Snuffed: Tobacco companies claim their smokeless nicotine chewing gum and similar products are a healthy alternative to smoking cigarettes – but they aren’t.

BAT and Philip Morris see rise in sale of smokeless products

But regardless of whether it is sniffed, sucked or chewed, the plant is still bad for people’s health

A cancer patient receives treatment.

‘Cancer-related insurance claims on the rise, post-Covid-19’

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In black and white: Animal behaviour can mirror human nature.
Photo: Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Getty Images

New responses to diseases – and each other

Antagonism and tension are inherent in our being but we can change the conversation

So many on the African continent are affected by TB, which hits the young and vibrant the hardest in our region and in the world. (Photo by NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Africans can solve TB, the disease that haunts us. Here’s how

Africans need to be fully involved in drug discovery and development research for tuberculosis on the continent

As we mark World Cancer Day on 4 February, we must remind one another that cervical cancer is neither inevitable nor untreatable.

World Cancer Day: Close the cervical cancer care gap

Policymakers in particular need to ensure there is investment in healthcare infrastructure, public awareness and education is enhanced, screening programme quality is improved and there is equitable access to health services

Professor Annie Joubert from the University of Pretoria.

‘Let’s together close the care gap’ on cancer, says UP Professor

Cancer is often preventable, so creating awareness and highlighting possible risk factors is crucial