British doctors will be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis, the government announced Thursday following a review — but insisted it was not a first...
Democratic Republic of Congo has declared an end to the deadly Ebola outbreak in the country.
The Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga made the declaration...
Researchers in the United States have approved a “new” drug for treating recurring malaria.
The drug, called tafenoquine is the first such anti-malarial drug to be given...
Diamond producer De Beers said on Monday it was relocating 200 elephants from its private reserve in South Africa to neighbouring Mozambique, part of...
A top official of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC), Thandi Modise is to face prosecution over deaths of animals on her farm.
She...
The much maligned rat is not a creature many would associate with coral reefs.
But scientists studying reefs on tropical islands say the animals directly...
French food giant Danone is looking into reports that its Aptamil baby milk formula is making some infants ill.
Aptamil recently changed the recipe of...
The family of former South African president Jacob Zuma says his son, Vusi Nhlakanipho Zuma, died of Lupus.
A family representative, Linda Makatini said on Wednesday...