Special Reports

Health of the Nation

If the latest Health of the Nation survey is anything to go by, South Africans are deluded about their health. For instance, a rather self-satisfied 90% of us rate our lifestyles as “generally OK on the health front” or “very healthy”, meaning only 9,6% of us concede that we are pretty unhealthy.

Health FAQs, Special Report

Need advice? Here’s free expert help. Meet the experts and see the health FAQs hot list which covers some of the world’s most frequently asked health questions.

Besides professional advice, there are also a full menu of Talk forums providing support and a space to chat with other users.

International Aids Conference 2010

The 18th International Aids Conference takes place from 18 to 23 July 2010 in the Austrian capital Vienna. More than 20,000 scientists, activists, policymakers and grassroots workers in Aids is attending the meeting.

Public Service Strike

Hundreds of thousands of public servants have gone on strike demanding an 8.6% salary hike and a R1,000 housing allowance. The country's public health system is just one of the sectors that has been crippled by the strike.

Life 2 the Limit

Life 2 The Limit is an adventure in which ten people decide to spend a month in total isolation on an island in the South Pacific. They will try to survive without the commodities of the modern world and with no infrastructure, no external help and very few tools to assist them.

Wildfire

Wildfires are 90% the fault of careless or malicious people, and we're fanning the flames further with global warming and urban sprawl into the countryside. Fire-prone parts of the world such as ours are battling bigger, hotter and wilder fires, some on so devastating a scale a new term has been coined for them: megafires.

World Cup 2010

As the world prepares to descend on South Africa for the much anticipated 2010 Soccer World Cup, we take a look at some of the key health issues – from soccer injuries to the latest research on professional sports.

Wonderful Life

We are becoming duller and poorer with each passing day. Life is slipping away from us at a rate of 150-200 species every 24 hours. 2010 is International Year of Biodiversity.