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SIU demands that Mkhize and family repay R4m
The Special Investigations Unit has accused former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize of “unlawful and improper conduct” and wants his family to repay R4m from...
US judge rules COVID patient must get Ivermectin
A US lawsuit may force an Ohio hospital to give one of its COVID patients Ivermectin, the anti-parasitic drug that has been embraced as...
Committee told that cannabis use Bill is ’racist and outdated’
A draft Bill providing for the private use and cultivation of cannabis has come under fire at Parliament. An EWN report notes that Parliament’s...
Judgment reserved in Vinpro application on liquor ban
Judgment in the Vinpro case against the government’s liquor ban restrictions within the Disaster Management Act (DMA) has been reserved.
Adjourning the case, Western Cape...
Dr Hoosen Haffejee’s 1978 injury ‘points to strangulation’
A pathology expert told the reopened inquest into the 1978 death of apartheid era dentist and activist Dr Hoosen Haffejee that there were at...
Assassination of whistleblowing Gauteng Health finance director
Babita Deokaran, the “exemplary” chief director of financial accounting at Gauteng Health and a witness in the Special Investigation Unit’s probe into R332m of...
Semenya: Correction to critical testosterone study raises appeal hopes
The legal representatives of South African athlete Caster Semenya believe that a recent correction to a critical testosterone study in the British Journal of...
Alcohol sales ban ‘requires national not provincial response’
The COVID-19 pandemic is a national disaster – and so it must be navigated at national level, the Western Cape High Court heard this...
COVID-19 no-fault compensation fund details still vague
Four months after the Health Department gazetted the establishment of the no-fault compensation fund, aimed at protecting citizens injured during the COVID-19 vaccination rollout,...
ConCourt reserves judgment on Tembisa Hospital cerebral palsy matter
The Constitutional Court reserved judgment last week on an application for leave to appeal a finding that negligent omission by medical staff at Tembisa...
Second set of fraud charges but Northern Cape Health official still working
The acting head of the Northern Cape Department of Health has been arrested for a second time this year for fraud and contraventions of...
Tobacco giant warns of economic impact for Botswana of new Bill
Botswana's tobacco sector says the Tobacco Control Bill, which has been passed by Parliament and is now awaiting the country’s president's stamp of approval,...
Limpopo might ban booze sales to unvaccinated people
Limpopo health MEC Phophi Ramathuba says the province is lobbying the alcohol industry to look at several proposals, including preventing unvaccinated people from buying...
Apartheid era dentist Dr Hoosen Haffejee ‘did not kill himself’ inquest hears
The third day of the inquest into the 1977 death of anti-apartheid activist and dentist Dr Hoosen Haffejee (26) saw three witnesses take the...
Infant bodies went missing from Health Dept's forensic pathology lab
Melice Jacobs, the Eastern Cape woman known as “Freezer Mom”, is now a free woman. A Daily Dispatch report says her charges of four...
Gauteng premier caused 'risk of harm' in massive PPE scandal
The lawyer representing former Gauteng Health CFO Kabelo Lehloenya has insisted that Premier David Makhura and his government introduced the risk of harm that...
UK equality laws could be changed to protect women in menopause
Changing equality legislation in the UK to protect women going through the menopause should “not be ruled” out, according to the chair of a...
Purdue boss: Family wants protection from OxyContin litigation
The former president and board chair of the company that makes OxyContin told a court last week that he, his family and the company...
British university makes COVID vaccine mandatory for students
A leading university has become the first in the UK to ban students from living on campus if they have not been vaccinated against...
UK MPs urged to ban ‘virginity repairʼ surgery and testing
The UK governmentʼs pledge to outlaw virginity testing will be undermined unless fake surgery touted as “virginity repair” is also banned, the Royal College...
Tribunal told that Gauteng premier Makhura failed to prevent PPE corruption
Gauteng's premier David Makhura is liable for more than R42.8m in alleged COVID-19 procurement corruption because he “failed to prevent officials of the Gauteng...
US Appeals Court reinstates nearly 6,000 surgical products liability lawsuits against 3M
The US Court of Appeals reinstated, this week, almost 6,000 products liability lawsuits filed against 3M relating to a surgical device that was meant...
Nurse in Germany suspected of replacing vaccines with saline solution
Authorities in northern Germany have appealed to 8,600 people to get another shot of COVID vaccine after a police investigation found that a Red...
National Health Laboratory CEO and supplier’s director in PPE fraud appearance
Two people accused of fraud and theft relating to the multimillion personal protective equipment tender at the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) appeared in...
Fresh call for Zimbabwe to outlaw child marriages
The Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has called upon the government to enact a child protection law that outlaws child marriage. This follows...
Despite Catholic majority, Spain wins right to medically assisted death
On 25 June, Spain became the fifth country in the world to legalise euthanasia, with a strict three-step evaluation that protects patients and doctors....
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...
‘Untenable precedent’ over brain-damaged baby on appeal to ConCourt
A Gauteng High Court ruling that found no causal link between the Tembisa Hospital’s neglect of a mother in labour and her new-born’s brain...
Solidarity warns over proposed ‘certificate of need’ for healthcare practitioners
The Solidarity trade union will strongly oppose the proposed regulations that pave the way for the implementation of the so-called “Certificate of Need” for healthcare...
Rise in menopause cases before UK employment tribunals
Growing numbers of women are taking their employers to court citing the menopause as proof of unfair dismissal and direct sex discrimination, researchers have...
13 years after brain-damaged birth, court orders Eastern Cape Health to provide hospital record
A Nelson Mandela Bay mother, whose child was born with severe brain damage after problems during birth, intends suing Dora Nginza Hospital and Eastern...
Interns warned against joining Nigerian doctors’ strike
The Nigerian government has warned that medical interns who join the nationwide strike would have to repeat the mandatory two-year programme without remuneration, reports...
Asset Forfeiture Unit seizes property bought with funds ‘diverted from Life Esidimeni’
The state has seized vehicles, a commercial stand and other valuable properties sourced through proceedings of the now-defunct Life Esidimeni, reports News24.
The NPA’s Asset...
Eastern Cape doctor convicted of theft and fraud
An Eastern Cape doctor, Chwayita Ongama Yongama Yako (46), was convicted by the Mthatha Regional Court on 3 August for charges of theft and...
The long, slow exit of Health Minister Mkhize is over at last
The exit of Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize, who had been on “special leave” since 8 June after allegations of involvement in tender irregularities,...
Eastern Cape application to freeze R364m in medical negligence awards
The Eastern Cape government is seeking to freeze R364m in medical negligence awards, as well as to stay any orders and writs against Eastern Cape...
Pretoria paediatrician had ‘never seen so many broken bones’ in an infant
Pretoria paediatrician Dr Julian Smith told the Gauteng High Court that the amount of force used in causing the fractures on the body of ...
NHS guidelines: Trans sex offenders may be admitted to female-only wards
Anyone self-identifying in the UK as a woman, including male-born sex offenders, may be placed in female-only hospital wards, according to new National Health...
New Zealand legislation will ban gay conversion therapy
New Zealand has introduced legislation to ban conversion therapy, saying there is “no place in modern New Zealand for this harmful practice”.
Conversion therapy refers...
Gauteng Health officials who spent R500m on illegal tender go scot free
The Gauteng government under Premier David Makhura allowed six former senior officials in the Health Department who wasted R500m on an illegal data storage...