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Eastern Cape Health interdicts attorney's R79m payout move
The Eastern Cape Health has obtained an interim interdict preventing attorney Zuko Nonxuba from putting into effect writs of execution he has against the...
SA adopts human remains repatriation policy
The Cabinet has adopted a policy to have the human remains of South Africans abroad to be repatriated, reports MedicalBrief. Arts & Culture Department...
Warning to looters: stiff penalties for stolen medicine users
While the health sector has warned looters who think they can cash in on stolen medical supplies that it is illegal as there are...
‘Dr Death’ still awaits charge sheet from HPCSA
The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has still not served Dr Wouter Basson, dubbed ‘Dr Death’, his new charge sheet.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize,...
Free State and Limpopo Health officials in court for fraud
Twelve people, including current and former Limpopo Health officials, have appeared in a Bloemfontein court on allegations of defrauding the department of R8.7m over...
Municipal offices in North West raided by SIU over PPE procurement
As part of a probe into yet another alleged irregular and overpriced procurement of PPE, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) and Hawks investigators raided...
France: Vaccine mandatory for healthcare staff and 'health pass' for mall shoppers
The French Parliament has approved a Bill mandating COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare workers and requiring those seeking access to certain social venues to carry...
Yet another postponement for Life Esidimeni hearing
The inquest into the Life Esidimeni tragedy has been halted until 30 August in the Gauteng High Court, reports TimesLIVE.
The hearing is intended to...
Class action against Canadian fertility doctor who used own sperm
Canadian families who claim disgraced Ottawa fertility doctor Norman Barwin used the wrong sperm – or even his own sperm – in the conception...
War crimes charge for Syrian doctor living in Germany
A Syrian doctor living in Germany has been charged with crimes against humanity after being accused of 18 counts of torturing people in military...
Lawyers circle as yet another study links rugby to brain abnormalities
A UK biomarker study shows that 23% of elite adult rugby players had abnormalities in brain structure, and half showed an unexpected change in...
Appeal Court ends Obs-Gynae’s 8-year ordeal over undiagnosed Down’s
Pretoria Obstetrician-Gynaecologist Dr Piet Engelbrecht eight-year ordeal over a multimillion-rand medical negligence claims following the birth of a baby with Down's syndrome ended last week...
SA group plans vaginal mesh class action
A dozen South African women are following counterparts in Western countries in suing pharmaceutical companies for chronic harm they say was inflicted by implants...
US university's compulsory vaccination requirement for staff and students upheld
A federal judge has upheld Indiana University’s requirement that students and staff on campus be vaccinated against the coronavirus, but the ruling is unlikely...
Zimbabwe Health Bill amendment will limit doctors’ and nurses’ pay strikes
Zimbabwe intends to limit the frequency of doctors and nurses going on strike over pay that often cripples the countryʼs fragile health sector, reports...
Inquest spotlights HPCSA and SANC foot dragging over Life Esidimeni
The Life Esidimeni inquest that will decide if anybody can be held criminally responsible for the deaths of 144 mental health patients while in...
Prosecution proceeds against doctor ‘callously’ jailed while on emergency call
An ear, nose and throat specialist who was arrested and jailed for breaking curfew while attending to a medical emergency, will appear in the...
SIU cheers firing of Gauteng Health official implicated in R330m of contracts
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has welcomed the dismissal of senior Gauteng Health official Thandy Pino for her involvement in the irregular award of...
SAHPRA: Vaccine procurement not exclusive right of the state
The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) denied in court that there is any rule or condition that grants exclusive rights to the government...
SA's liquor ban ‘remarkably successful’, argues Dlamini-Zuma
Minister of Co-operative Governance & Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has argued that the benefit of a liquor ban outweighs the costs, adding that the...
Doctors have a statutory obligation to report ANY corporal punishment
The Constitutional Court’s finding that corporal punishment cannot be justified removed any discretion that doctors previously had as to whether the force applied amounted...
Anglo American seeks more documents in Zambian mine lead poisoning action
Anglo American won a bid in the High Court to extend the timing of its responding affidavit in what could be a class action...
Good Law's challenge to UK govt fails after bad law error
High-profile legal activist group, The Good Law Project, foiled their own challenge to the UK government through the rookie error of serving the correct...
Australian court says minister has ‘duty of care’ to protect youth
Australia’s federal court, reports MedicalBrief, has formally declared the nation’s environment minister has a “duty to take reasonable care” that young people won’t be...
Report that SIU ‘recommends’ that Health Minister Mkhize be fired
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU), which is in the process of tracking down about R90m of the R150m paid to Digital Vibes, has reportedly...
Woman claimed to be mom of 10 goes to court over psychiatric hospitalisation
Moliehi Maria Sithole, also known as Gosiame Thamara, and her partner Teboho Tsotetsi, have turned to the High Court for an order on an...
Bail for Namibian intern doctor accused of rape
A Namibian intern medical doctor Dennis Noa, accused of raping a patient at Katutura Intermediate Hospital, Windhoek, was granted bail last Friday after nearly...
Lifetime cost of care in cerebral palsy medical negligence claims
Cerebral palsy (CP) diagnoses are the major factor in the billions paid in medical negligence claims by South Africa’s provincial health services and calculating...
Anglo American ‘knew of lead danger’ at Zambian mine
A medical officer said Anglo American was aware of the danger lead poisoning posed to employees and commissioned a now missing study into its...
Vaping company fined $40m for illegally targeting youth
Juul Labs, an electronic cigarette giant, will pay $40m to North Carolina state and make changes to its business practices to settle accusations that...
Namibia unhappy over testosterone-level exclusion of female athletes
The Namibian government has called on World Athletics and the International Olympic Committee to reinstate two of its top athletes in the women's 400m...
Too late for justice, say victims allegedly tortured by New Zealand psychiatrist
A New Zealand Royal Commission set up to investigate abuse in care says the country’s health ministry is still receiving complaints about a psychiatrist...
ANC to discipline Nkandla ‘super-spreaders’ for incitement to violence
Organisers of the potentially super-spreader event outside former President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla home would be investigated for incitement to violence and defiance of COVID-19...
DA call for submissions on Bill to end ‘conversion therapy’ on children
The Democratic Alliance’s Siviwe Gwarube has called for written submissions on the proposed contents of a Children’s Amendment Bill that would seek to “provide...
‘Negligent’ Gauteng Treasury pays Microsoft $20m instead of R20m
An “act of negligence” has led to the Gauteng Department of Treasury squandering R6 843 737.90 of taxpayers' money, which could have bought the...
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,...
SA’s alcohol industry hits back at its fourth lockdown ban
The alcohol industry is fighting back against the fourth liquor ban, with one body approaching the High Court for an urgent interdict against the...
Government’s purchasing exclusivity to J&J vaccine challenged
AfriForum and Solidarity have launched an urgent court application to request more information concerning the conditions imposed on Johnson & Johnson (J&J) by the...
Eastern Cape medico-legal claim was ‘ludicrous’ plagiarism
A doctor who compiled the medico-legal report in a case of negligence brought against Eastern Cape Health has told Mthatha Regional Court Magistrate Sizakele...
US hospital group fires 150 for refusing vaccination
More than 150 employees of leading US medical group Houston Methodist resigned or were terminated over the past fortnight after refusing to get vaccinated...