This section is dedicated to screening and prevention, healthy lifestyle, exercise, nutrition and emotional wellbeing BEFORE CANCER
How does smoking up your cancer risk?
Tobacco-use is the single-most avoidable risk factor for cancer. The good news is that your lungs start recovering as soon as you kick the habit. Yet, tobacco-related diseases kill over 44 000 South Africans and 6 million people worldwide every year.
There’s a critical need for kidney transplants. Here’s why you should care
You might gladly give up a kidney so your child can have chance of a normal life – but could you? And would anyone else? Here’s a look at what’s creating an organ donor dilemma in South Africa.
mHealth is transforming healthcare – here’s how it can change yours
Across the globe, digital innovation is disrupting industries and new markets by radically changing the means by which we engage with our wellbeing. Here’s what mobile health can (and has already started to) bring to South Africa.
Want to protect your kids online? Train them to be cyber-savvy
As more kids have access to one or more screens and Internet-connected devices – and with it comes dangers to your children’s wellbeing. Here’s what to look out for and how to help your kids thrive in the digital age.
Living with an incurable cancer
With his diagnosis carrying a median survival rate of four years, Fareed Bruintjies, 47, accidentally bumped into a patient who'd survived the same cancer for twelve years, in the chemotherapy room.