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Mother sentenced for Gems fraud after daughter dies under false ID
A mother whose daughter died in hospital last year has been convicted and handed a suspended sentence by the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court for defrauding...
SA Defence Force sued for R5m for ‘disfiguring’ woman
Botched surgery to her arm killed any chances an aspirant SANDF chef had to achieve her dream 12 years ago, leaving her limb deformed,...
Surgeon admits he is ‘a pervert’ and abused children
A former French surgeon, on trial for sexually abusing hundreds of patients, told the court he’d used his status as a doctor to attack...
US gynaecologist charged with sexual abuse, reusing devices
A Memphis, Tennessee gynaecologist who is accused of sexually abusing four women, and reusing unsanitary medical devices in unnecessary procedures, was arrested on Friday,...
British paediatric surgeon suspended for ‘below standard’ ops
An orthopaedic surgeon who specialises in treating children has been suspended from a hospital in Cambridge, England, after nine surgeries were found to fall...
Paediatric surgeon Peter Beale acquitted of murder and fraud
Paediatric surgeon Peter Beale was acquitted on murder and fraud charges this week, bringing relief to him and the medical profession which saw the...
Staff 'turned blind eye' to rape-accused French surgeon’s crimes, trial hears
Victims and activists are questioning why nothing was done to stop a French paedophile surgeon from working with children, even though they were aware...
Parents jailed for withholding insulin from dying daughter
The parents of an eight-year-old Australian girl who died after they withheld her insulin – encouraged by members of a small Christian sect who...
White US woman sues after having black baby in IVF error
A US woman who unknowingly carried and delivered a baby boy who was not biologically hers has launched legal proceedings against an IVF clinic...
US court upholds Theranos founder’s conviction
A San Francisco court has upheld the conviction of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes – who defrauded investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars...
J&J makes third attempt to resolve $10bn talc settlement
Opponents have accused Johnson & Johnson of “vote-rigging” in its latest efforts to resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging its baby powder causes ovarian cancer.
On Tuesday,...
US pain clinics made millions from unnecessary jabs, court hears
A multi-state pain management company – once among America’s most prolific users of what it referred to as “tendon origin injections” – administered thousands...
US sperm donor to 180 children slammed by Welsh judge
A British judge has warned of the dangers of unregulated sperm donation, after a man claiming to have fathered more than 180 children tried...
Kidney removal patient wins negligence case
A man who was shot in the lower back five years ago and endured lifesaving surgery – but then subsequently, had to remove his...
Court orders RAF to pay medical aid claimant’s past expenses
In a win for Discovery Health after lengthy legal wrangles, a Western Cape High Court has ruled that a previous judgment “did not change...
French surgeon on trial for sexually abusing hundreds of children
The biggest child abuse trial in French history will open in Brittany this month amid anger that a surgeon was allegedly able to attack...
Healthy babies aborted after scan misdiagnosis in new NHS scandal
An investigation has found that two British couples each made the decision to have a healthy foetus aborted because they were wrongly informed that...
Surgeon, hospital sued after wrong organ removed
An Alabama, USA widow is suing an inept doctor – with a history of errors – and a hospital for killing her husband by...
Mother, baby die as doctors watch YouTube to perform C-section
A bereaved husband has described how a medical team at Lebechi Hospital in Owerri, Nigeria, reportedly watched a YouTube tutorial while performing a Caesarean...
UK mesh victims still awaiting compensation
British women harmed by pelvic mesh implants are still waiting for government compensation a year after a call for urgent action by a major...
Health professionals penalised for yelling at patient, sexual harassment …
The latest rulings by the Health Professions Council of South Africa's misconduct inquiries include penalties for sexual harassment, shoddy post-operative treatment, and yelling at...
Finally, first payments agreed for listeriosis victims
Tiger Brands has reached an agreement with Richard Spoor Inc and LHL Attorneys to advance the first payments to listeriosis victims with urgent medical needs...
No evidence Lucy Letby killed babies, says panel of experts
Former British nurse Lucy Letby, currently serving 15 life terms behind bars, is the victim of “one of the major injustices of modern times”,...
Claim against UK firm for defective hip device can be heard in SA – judge
A British-based company has lost its legal bid to evade liability for installing a defective hip replacement system into a South African patient, with...
Pfizer to cough up $59.7m over drug kickbacks
Pfizer has to pay $59.7m to resolve charges that a company it acquired defrauded Medicare and other healthcare programmes by paying kickbacks so doctors...
Family sues after patient’s face catches fire in surgery
The wife of a US man whose alcohol-swabbed face caught alight during surgery has filed a $900 000 lawsuit against the hospital.
John Michael Murdoch,...
HPCSA rules against forensic psychologist over Donovan Moodley profiling
A preliminary inquiry by the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has found profiler Professor Gerard Labuschagne guilty of unprofessional conduct and fined him...
Headache clinic doctor back in court
Headache specialist Dr Elliot Shevel (81) appeared in court on a murder charge last Friday for the death of his patient Marinella Avvakoumides after...
Judge slams attorney for mishandling cerebral palsy case
The “unprofessional” conduct of an attorney contributed to the failure of a mother’s medical negligence case against the Eastern Cape Health MEC, a judge...
Woman (83) loses claim against orthopaedic surgeon
The Northern Cape Court (Kimberley) has thrown out a woman's claim against the orthopaedic surgeon who performed her total hip replacement a decade ago,...
Police liable for damages after diabetic's death in detention
The SAPS has to fork out damages to the family of a man they arrested on suspicion of being drunk but who was actually...
US doctor accused of sexually exploiting 10 children
A Florida doctor faces life in prison after being accused of sexually exploiting minors online and in video chats, including directing them to harm...
Partner pleads guilty to role in OxyContin scandal
A former partner at the well known global consulting company McKinsey & Co pleaded guilty last week to obstructing justice by destroying records related...
Beverly Hills doctor accused of raping unconscious woman
A physician in Beverly Hills has been accused of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in Los Angeles, and charged with eight felony counts including...
Gauteng Health MEC fails in bid for researcher to disclose patient data
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has dismissed an application by the Gauteng Health MEC for University of Stellenbosch researcher Dr Regan Solomons to hand over...
Clinic cleared of blame for pregnant woman’s death
An internal investigation by the Gauteng Department of Health into the death of a 32-year-old expectant mother, who died at Westbury Clinic last month...
Nine years of chemotherapy for non-existent cancer
In a horrific story of apparent profit over humanity, a US oncologist subjected patients to years of unnecessary mental, emotional and physical anguish by...
NHS doctor struck off for ‘outlandish‘ Covid jab theories
A senior NHS psychiatrist who questioned the safety of Covid vaccines, saying they were “at the heart of a giant deception”, has been struck off the...
UK doctors, nurses with long Covid sue NHS
Hundreds of British doctors, nurses and other health workers with long Covid – many of them now housebound or unable to work – are...
Medico-legal lawyer disbarred for stealing millions from disabled children
Disgraced attorney Zuko Nonxuba – under whose watch R188m in medical negligence payouts to severely disabled children disappeared – has been declared unfit to...