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On A Lighter Note

NHS staff cautioned on 'edible gifts' after cannabis cake thank-you

July 10th, 2019 A patient’s grateful family gave nurses a thank-you cake — left over from a grandson's birthday party — not realising it was laced with cannabis. According to a...

Medico-Legal

Doctor on bail after being caught in Hawks’ sick note sting

An East London medical doctor, arrested for allegedly selling a sick note to an undercover Hawks agent, was released on R3,000 bail by the East...

Snubbed BAT joins court action to overturn SA cigarette ban

British American Tobacco (BAT) SA, the local division of the world’s second-largest cigarette producer, has joined an array of groups and...

Firm fined R76,000 in first contested masks price hikes case

The Competition Tribunal has found a Pretoria-based company guilty of hiking the prices of face masks. Babelegi Workwear and Industrial Supplies CC...

Company disputes Competition Tribunal finding on sanitiser pricing

A Cape Town chemical company has been reported to the Competition Tribunal for excessive pricing on hand sanitiser during the COVID-19 disaster,...

Illegal circumcision guilty plea was under ‘non-existent Act’

An Eastern Cape man who admitted to performing an illegal circumcision has escaped a jail sentence – but only, reports TimesLIVE, if the...

Cyber-attacks on global healthcare industry red-flagged

The CyberPeace Institute worked with world leaders to petition the UN to for greater prevention efforts against cyber-attacks plaguing the global...

Medical Ethics

Ethical guidelines for deliberately infecting volunteers with COVID-19

Dr Adair Richards at the University of Warwick has developed a set of ethical guidelines to guide researchers on an ethical approach to deliberately...

Privacy issues must be overcome to allow patient notes to be used to help manage COVID-19

GPs' notes, currently unavailable to medical researchers because of patient privacy issues, could provide clues to help manage major health crises...

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