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Addiction

The African opioid epidemic you haven’t heard about

August 29th, 2019 Weakly regulated painkillers are causing untold damage in West Africa, but stricter controls could have dire consequences for patients with chronic pain. Laura...

Medico-Legal

Cannabis for medicinal use, SA draft guidelines published for comment

March 15th, 2017 The Medicines Control Council (MCC) has published draft guidelines for the cultivation and processing of cannabis for medical use, proposing strict controls at every...

MEDICO-LEGAL

Western Cape takes 13-year battle over doctors’ allowances to ConCourt

Western Cape Health has appealed to the Constitutional Court to overturn a Labour Court victory of 50 doctors that forced the department to pay them...

Gauteng court action over foetus burial vs medical waste

At what point should a foetus be legally considered human? That issue will come before the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) in November when an NGO,...

PE doctor to court over social media sexual assault claims

Allegations of patients being fondled in a doctor’s rooms, sexually charged remarks and unwanted kissing have been made on social media against a...

Ethically complex case potentially links children’s autism to sperm donor

Danielle Rizzo’s young children are at the centre of one of the most ethically complex legal cases in the modern-day fertility industry, writes ...

Demands for change to UK laws on restaurant labelling of allergens

The family of a UK teenager who died after eating a birthday meal at a burger chain have demanded a change in the law on allergen labelling in...

US teen sues e-cigarette makers for severe lung damage

A recently hospitalised Chicago teen is suing the makers of an e-cigarette he used as well as the place where he got it from, reports CBS News. In a...

UK court to decide family’s right to see treatment abroad for their child

A UK court will decide whether the family of a child who suffered a traumatic brain injury will be allowed to seek treatment...

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