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Diet drug ruling appeal set for June in France
An appeal in the case related to the anti-diabetic drug benfluorex, sold under the brand name Mediator in France, will hear some 692 trial...
California AG sues big pharma over insulin prices
Six major companies that dominate the US insulin market are being sued by Californian Attorney-General Rob Bonta, who believes they are violating the law...
Doctor charged with defrauding FNB, Sasol of R420m
A doctor accused of defrauding First National Bank and Sasol of R420m through a cross-border petroleum syndicate is seeking bail in a separate R7m fraud case,...
Texas medical schools sued over race-based admissions
A Texas man has filed a lawsuit against six US state-run medical schools, accusing them of violating anti-discrimination laws by using affirmative action to give...
NPOs in court bid to halt SA Covid vaccination campaign
Three non-profit organisations have brought an application in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) to stop the country’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign until a full investigation by...
KZN doctor negligent, liable for brain damage of man with overdose history
A KwaZulu-Natal doctor has been found liable for the brain injury of a patient admitted to the emergency unit of Life Westville Hospital eight...
Tribunal upholds ‘grossly negligent’ ruling against Tembisa Hospital CEO and staff
After the death of a critically ill Tembisa Hospital patient, who was not fed for two days before he died, an independent ad hoc...
CMS faces court action after refusal to pay child’s rare disease treatment
An urgent application has been filed against the Council of Medical Schemes (CMS) by the mother of a three-year-old boy to appeal a refusal...
SANBS CEO guilty of negligence over MBA qualification
SA National Blood Service (SANBS) CEO Ravi Reddy has been found guilty of negligence by allowing the body’s digitalised annual report to display his...
Nurse who jabbed 8 000 patients with saline, not Pfizer, loses licence
A Red Cross nurse in Germany, who injected up to 8 600 elderly people with a saline solution instead of a Covid-19 vaccine, has...
Second prison sentence for crooked US doctor
A former US surgeon, who pretended to be a licensed physician after being released from prison in March 2017, has been sentenced again, with...
Tembisa tender kingpins to face prosecution
The much plundered Tembisa Hospital was the focus of activity this week, as a Hawks raid saw detectives seizing computers and documents, their haul...
New Zealand judge rules court custody for infant in anti-vax blood case
A New Zealand child, whose parents blocked lifesaving heart surgery for him because they didn't want “contaminated blood” from donors vaccinated against COVID-19, will...
Theranos’ Balwani jailed for 13 years over blood-testing hoax
Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former Theranos executive and business partner of disgraced biotech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, has been sentenced to nearly 13 years in...
HPCSA head fights Wits dismissal
Professor Simon Nemutandani, president of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and former CEO and head of school at Wits University's School...
Parents sued for refusing blood from vaccinated donor for baby's surgery
Health New Zealand has approached the courts for intervention after a four-month-old baby’s parents refused permission for their infant’s heart surgery, saying a blood...
Daymed Hospital now faces Hawks bribery probe
The Hawks have set their sights on Pietermaritzburg’s Daymed Private Hospital, already the focus of a tax evasion scandal, over claims that its owners...
SIU recovers funds from Life Esidimeni facilities
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has recovered money from five NGOs that unduly benefited from Life Esidimeni patients’ Sassa grants six years ago, all of...
Vaping giant Juul coughs up millions to nearly 10 000 plaintiffs
Giant e-cigarette manufacturer Juul, which was accused of marketing its products to teenagers, has reached a settlement with about 10 000 plaintiffs and is...
Du Pont loses appeal over cancer toxic chemical ruling
A federal appeals court has upheld a $40m verdict for a cancer survivor who sued EI Du Pont de Nemours and Co after years...
French medicines agency under investigation over thyroid drug
The French national medicines agency is being investigated for “aggravated deception” in the case of Levothyrox, the thyroid medication whose change in recipe several...
Judge dismisses thousands of lawsuits claiming Zantac cancer link
A US judge in Florida has dismissed thousands of lawsuits claiming that popular heartburn medication Zantac causes cancer, ruling that unreliable methodologies were used...
Court orders release of State of Disaster decisions
Minister of Co-operative Governance & Traditional Affairs Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma must, by 9 December, deliver the records of the government’s decisions on the...
Health activist’s bid for complete tobacco ban dismissed
A spirited fight for tobacco to be completely banned in Kenya has gone up in smoke: the constitutional and human rights division of the...
NHS maternity scandal now expected to exceed 1 500 cases
The NHS could be facing its largest maternity scandal yet, with the review into services in Nottingham expected to exceed 1 500 cases, after...
Interdict issued against striking Gauteng health workers
The Gauteng Health Department has secured a court interdict against striking public healthcare workers after Tuesday’s wage-related demonstrations, when staff disrupted operations at both...
Ivermectin ruling set aside by Supreme Court of Appeal
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has set aside a controversial supervisory order, granted in April 2021, compelling the South African Health Products Regulatory...
RAF heads for Appeal Court over medical aid payout ban ruling
The Road Accident Fund (RAF) is unhappy with the judgment issued last month in which the High Court put an end to a payout...
After SCA ruling, DA wants Zuma back in prison by Friday
The DA wants Jacob Zuma back behind bars after the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled this week that he should not have been released...
Eleven-year jail term for fraudster Theranos founder
A California judge ordered Elizabeth Holmes to spend more than 11 years in prison for fraudulently building her blood-testing startup Theranos into a $9bn company...
US anti-vax group sues founder in control battle
America’s Frontline Doctors (AFD) is suing one of its founders – headline-grabbing MD Simone Gold – in a battle for control over the controversial...
Eastern Cape paid R3.4bn in hysterectomy malpractice claims since 2014
Hysterectomy malpractice lawsuits are commonplace in South Africa, particularly in the Eastern Cape, which since 2014, has coughed up some R3.4bn in lawsuit settlements...
Court bid to halt new RAF medical tariffs
The Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) is due to hear an urgent application to stop Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula and the Road Accident Fund (RAF)...
CMS accuses Health Squared of plotting its own liquidation
The Registrar of Medical Schemes believes that Health Squared orchestrated its own liquidation – and devised a plan to outmanoeuvre the registrar’s plans to...
State's case against 'certificate of need' ruling delayed
The decision on whether certain sections of the National Health Insurance Act are unconstitutional now rests with the Constitutional Court following the Gauteng High Court’s...
The plan to stop SA’s fake medical negligence claims
With the public health sector struggling to stay afloat under the weight of out-of-control, often fake, medical negligence cases, currently sitting at a combined...
Netcare sued for R20m after death of patient who was robbed and allegedly poisoned
More than a year after Bernard Katz was admitted to the Netcare Rosebank Hospital and later died there, during which time his sim card...
Sahpra to probe R850m Tembisa payments
The long list of suspicious payments and spending linked to procurement irregularities worth R850m from Tembisa Hospital is now also being investigated by the...
Former Bara CFO faces disciplinary hearing, threats, for whistle-blowing
A former CFO of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, who was credited with turning around the finances of the hospital before being poached by the...
Life Esidimeni: former Gauteng mental health boss denies concealing information
The former director of Gauteng’s Mental Health Services, Dr Makgabo Manamela, has denied a claim by former Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu that she...