Hedgehogs are small, spiky mammals covered in hundreds of sharp spines made of stiff keratin. That said, they are not to be ...

An editorial in a leading US health journal sidesteps genocide and the complicity of Israel's health system to undermine the growing academic boycott ...

She had to be put on oxygen after her birth, where she weighed a healthy 2.8kg, but was breathing without ... Liver specialist Professor Jack Krige, who helped deliver the baby, told a South African ...

A new mother's detailed breakdown of her R74,030 private hospital birth costs has sparked debate about South Africa's ...

The resolution of Adriana Smith's case in Georgia offers a chance for moral unity at the end of an ethical quagmire.

Whether you are related or not, everyone is family at Saturday’s Juneteenth Family Reunion. Celebrate the spirit of coming ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still ...

Reflections from a recent visit to South Africa, where UNICEF works to safeguard the lives and futures of children.

SHA promised salvation but delivered devastation as families mortgage their futures for medical miracles the system won't ...

According to Unesco and Unicef, four to five million girls remain out of school in Sub-Saharan Africa post-Covid.

A nationwide vaccine shortage has left thousands of infants unprotected against deadly diseases like polio, tuberculosis, and ...

It’s tempting to see heatwaves as indiscriminate forces, touching all under the same sun. But that view willfully ignores a ...