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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...
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...