Fruit juice can have as much — or more — sugar than soda or energy drinks. But unlike those drinks, juices won’t come with a warning label under SA’s latest draft regulations for food labelling. We ...

Elon Musk admitted to using it for depression, Friends actor Matthew Perry died from using too much of it and in South Africa, some ketamine healthcare providers are serving it up irresponsibly. So ...

In today’s newsletter, Zano Kunene tells us how the tobacco industry is using the same old tricks to push new products. Sign up for our newsletter today. Smoking a cigarette on a plane was normal ...

Professor Renata Schoeman is a Cape Town-based psychiatrist and the co-author of South Africa’s <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ADHD management guidelines and chairs the <a href=" ...

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects between 5% and 7% of schoolgoing children. But because doctors can only prescribe treatment for a month at a time, many kids in South Africa ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone and Mia Malan share heartbreaking stories about the human cost of the Trump administration’s HIV funding cuts. Sign up for our newsletter today. “Hello, sis. How ...

South Africa has a high stunting rate, an indicator of chronic malnutrition that measures if a child is too short for their age, which has hovered around 25% since the 1990s.; That impacts our per ...

But simply counting better isn’t the same as doing better, and critics called the reported progress “inconceivable”.. Why? Because for the last few years, the number of people with HIV who have gone ...

Tanya Pampalone is Bhekisisa's business development consultant and climate health newsletter editor. Pampalone is the former managing editor of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, executive ...

Linda Pretorius is Bhekisisa’s content editor. She has a PhD in biosystems from the University of Pretoria has been working as a science writer, editor and proofreader in the book industry and for ...