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Dispute over transcription costs stalls Gauteng 'right to die' hearing
A “right to die” test case has been stalling for several months due to a dispute about the payment of transcription costs, Die Burger...
New SA strategic frameworks on disability rights gazetted
Two recently gazetted national strategic frameworks have implications for private and public sector obligations in meeting the needs and rights of persons with disabilities,...
Phaahla: No govt mandated vax but also no interference in private sector policies
Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla has said the government does not intend to make COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory by law. TimesLIVE reports that Phaahla was...
WHO moves to address sexual abuse scandal with policy revamp
The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed part of its revamped policy to hold staff accountable as well as prevent cases of sexual abuse....
Dickason tragedy: Mom’s mental evaluation to take up to 18 months
The trial date of Dr Lauren Dickason, accused of killing her three children in New Zealand has been set, with the courts allocating around...
Nelson Mandela Bay endocrinologist suspended for sexual assaults
Gqeberha endocrinologist Dr Gregory Hough has been suspended from practising as a doctor for 18 months, reports HeraldLIVE. He was found guilty by the...
Albinism killing for muti: Immunity for state witness accomplices
The man who stood in the Mpumalanga High Court (Mbombela) and confessed to digging up Albino teenager Gabisile Shabane’s body and sawing through her...
Russian court restricts imprisoned Navalny’s ophthalmologist
A Russian court last week imposed one year of restrictions on ophthalmologist Dr Anastasia Vasileya. A Jurist report notes that the sanctions restrict her...
UK nurse pleads not guilty to murder of 8 babies and attempted murder of 10 more
UK nurse Lucy Letby has pleaded not guilty in the Manchester Crown Court to the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder of...
Almost $360m of IMF Covid funding to DRC is missing
Researchers says missing funds, opaque pay practices and poor management hamper the coronavirus response in the DRC, reports Yahoo News. The Congo Research Group,...
SARS recovers R170m in unpaid taxes from illegal COVID-19 contracts
SARS says it has recovered R170m in unpaid taxes, after its pursuit of 52 companies that were awarded R1bn in contracts for COVID-19-related services,...
Human Rights call for end to Tanzanian ban on pregnant students
Tanzania's ban on pregnant students and adolescent mothers attending school has denied tens of thousands of females their right to education, Human Rights Watch...
EU consults on reforms to existing pharmaceutical legislation
The European Commission has begun a public consultation on potential reforms to EU general pharmaceutical law. According to an Out-Law.com report, the review of...
Judgment delayed in Botswana government’s appeal against decriminalisation of gay sex
A Botswana court has postponed ruling on a case in which the government is seeking to overturn a 2019 ruling that decriminalised gay sex,...
Ghana’s draconian anti-gay Bill
Ghana's Parliament is preparing to debate a draft Bill – framed in the guise of “family values” – which seeks to introduce some of...
SCA rejects negligence appeal; recaps on approach to medical expert testimony
The Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Gauteng Health against a High Court judgment that found that negligence by Kalafong Hospital...
Canada: Refusal to use preferred pronouns is a human rights offence
A Canadian human rights tribunal has awarded a transgender, non-binary restaurant server $30,000 and ruled refusal to use someone’s preferred pronouns as a human...
SAHRC says mandatory vaccination constitutional but not desirable
The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has softened its stance on compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations, saying while it felt no enough had been done to...
Public Protector rules hospitals in 4 provinces fail Constitutional standards
The Office of the Public Protector has released the outcome of investigations into the state of more than a dozen public healthcare facilities in...
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...