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First US federal ruling upholds hospital's vaccine mandate
In what Jurist notes appears to be the first ruling in the US involving a request for an injunction against a private employer’s COVID-19...
US nurse faces death penalty for allegedly injecting air into patients’ arteries
A former nurse is on trial for the murder of four patients at a Texas hospital in 2017, with the prosecution claiming he purposefully...
Health oversight committee ‘shielded’ Mkhize during Digital Vibes scandal
The Opposition has also slated Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Health for shielding former Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize from being questioned on the Digital Vibes...
SIU report into Digital Vibes: More heads on the block
After a three month delay, President Cyril Ramaphosa has released the Special Investigating Unit report into the multimillion Digital Vibes tender fraud, reports MedicalBrief....
Compensation Fund gazetting: A reprieve or just electioneering?
The battle between Medical Service Providers (MSPs) and the embattled Compensation Fund (CF) about the new regulations that would spell the demise of third...
Challenge to UK law on abortion of Down’s syndrome foetuses fails
A woman with Down's syndrome has lost her UK High Court challenge to the law that allows abortion up to birth for a foetus...
12-year-old wins Dutch court battle against father over vaccination right
A 12-year-old boy in the Dutch city of Groningen has won a court battle to get vaccinated against COVID-19 so that he can visit...
Post Office medical aid settlement agreement reached, says Solidarity
The Labour Court in Johannesburg has ratified a ‘settlement’ reached between trade union Solidarity and the SA Post Office (Sapo) and MEDiPOS in the...
Gender Equality Commission seeks input on state of LGBTIQ+ in SA
In a move to identify key areas of intervention “to ensure the achievement of LGBTIQ+ equality in SA”, the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE)...
SCA dismisses appeal against invalidation of R139m Gauteng Health PPE tender
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has dismissed, with costs, an application for special leave to appeal the Special Tribunal (Tribunal) order declaring the...
DA: Freeze expenditure and recover R500m unlawfully spent on Anglo Ashanti Hospital
The Democratic Alliance welcomes the court order obtained by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to freeze R7.9m from two companies irregularly given tenders to...
New drug craze using catalytic converters causes concern in DRC
A new craze for a drug derived from crushed vehicle exhaust filters has Kinshasa’s authorities concerned. A report on the News24 site notes that...
Court seeks inquiry into Angelo Agrizzi’s medical condition
The corruption case of former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi has been postponed until 2 November for an inquiry into his medical condition, reports TimesLIVE....
Digital Vibes: Health DG Sandile Buthelezi also suspended – more to come?
Director-General of the Department of Health Dr Sandile Buthelezi has been suspended in connection with the R150m Digital Vibes scandal, reports News24, while Daily...
Top specialists find Zuma fit for trial, fuelling scepticism over earlier medical parole
Three leading medical specialists have found former president Jacob Zuma fit for trial, writes MedicalBrief. Their finding will fuel the controversy around Zuma’s earlier...
SIU freezes funds of firms that refurbished white-elephant Gauteng hospital
The Special Tribunal has granted the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) an order to freeze R7.9m in bank accounts of companies irregularly awarded tenders by...
Australia’s medical regulator intervenes to block anti-vaxxer
Lawyers for Australia’s medical regulator have written to former Liberal MP Craig Kelly demanding the United Australia Party (UAP) and Kelly stop distributing misleading...
Substantial public interest in NZ's proposed ban on LGBTQ conversion
More than 100,000 people have sent in submissions on New Zealand’s plan to ban LGBTQ conversion practices – more than have ever been made...
BBC cited by former employees in multiple mesothelioma lawsuits
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has become the subject of multiple mesothelioma lawsuits in recent months, with the latest being filed by the family...
Foot fetishist must pay compensation over NHS medical emergency calls
A foot fetishist who made more than a thousand calls to the NHS’s 111 medical emergency service to ask call handlers about their feet...
Doctor cashed in on mesh settlement funds with unnecessary surgeries
A US doctor has admitted to talking women into unnecessary surgeries to remove their transvaginal mesh implants in an effort to get a cut of...
SIU bid to reopen settled medical negligence case dismissed with punitive costs
The SIU’s claim that Eastern Cape Health was guilty of maladministration in how it managed the litigation of a medical negligence case in the Eastern...
KZN High Court judge orders proof of jabs at high-profile trial
A KZN High Court (Durban) judge presiding over a R28m corruption case involving KZN ANC deputy chair Mike Mabuyakhulu has ordered that anyone attending...
Ramaphosa ‘gave the green light’ to Zuma’s medical parole
City Press sources have claimed what many others have already suggested must have happened – that President Cyril Ramaphosa gave Correctional Services boss Arthur...
Culpable homicide complaint after Limpopo nurse ‘refused to help’ deliver baby
The family of a baby who died a day after she was born outside a clinic in Musina wants Limpopo Health to pay for...
Buck-passing at Life Esidimeni inquest
The former Gauteng Health Department deputy DG Dr Richard Lebethe says it would have been hard for officials to foresee that patients would pick...
Warnings that UK Crime Bill breaches medical confidentiality
British doctors and nurses will be turned into police informants under Home Secretary Priti Patelʼs Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, campaigners have warned,...
Medical startup founder on trial for duping US investors out of millions
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, an American privately held corporation which was touted as a breakthrough health technology company, “lied and cheated” for...
Zuma’s ‘ life-threatening emergency’ again spotlights the weaponising of medical testimony
Former president Jacob Zuma’s transfer from jail to hospital over an undisclosed “life-threatening emergency” that his lawyers say will also affect his ability to...
High Court expresses doubt that ‘nonchalant’ HPCSA is fit for purpose
The continued inability of the Health Professionals Council of SA (HPCSA) to timeously register foreign-qualified medical practitioners has led to another judicial tongue lashing,...
Another court ruling against HPCSA on foreign-qualified doctors
An urgent application by foreign-qualified doctors ordering the Health Professions Council of SA to allow them to sit their Board examinations, has been granted unopposed...
HPCSA again fails to comply with court order on foreign-qualified doctors
An urgent application by foreign-qualified doctors ordering the Health Professions Council of SA to allow them to sit their Board examinations, has been granted unopposed...
National Forensic DNA Database collection failure
Close on a 100,000 prisoners guilty of serious crimes — murder, rape, sexual offences, etc) — were released without DNA samples being taken for...
Life Esidimeni inquest: one nurse to 40 patients
The Life Esidimeni inquest has heard how mentally ill patients at one of their facilities had 15 nurses caring for about 600 patients, as...
Lawsuit to legalise cannabis filed in Namibia
Cannabis should be legalised in Namibia and people imprisoned for possessing dagga should be freed, two leading members of an organisation advocating the legalisation...
Phaahla urges criminal charges for fake news about vaccinations
People who spread fake news about COVID-19 vaccinations should face criminal charges, Health Minister Joe Phaahla said last week, according to a TimesLIVE report....
US court reverses order forcing hospital to treat patient with Ivermectin
An Ohio, USA, judge has reversed a court order that forced a local hospital to treat a COVID-19 patient with the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin,...
UK to increase storage limits for eggs, sperm and embryos to 55 years
Storage limits for eggs, sperm and embryos will be increased to a maximum of 55 years under government plans to give people greater choice...
Former National Health Laboratory Services CEO on R113m corruption charge
Joyce Mogale, the former CEO at the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS), appeared at the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crime Court in Johannesburg this...
SIU: Mkhize ignored Cabinet resolutions; processes manipulated
Former Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize ignored a Cabinet decision that the government's communications agency would roll out National Health Insurance (NHI) communication projects,...