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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...
COVID-19: Lockdown Level 4 regulations amended
Amendments have been made to COVID-19 adjusted disaster management lockdown level four sub-regulations affecting accommodation establishments, the closure of schools and the transportation of...
ConCourt rejects sexual harassment doctor’s reinstatement bid
The Constitutional Court has refused former George Hospital head of anaesthesiology, Dr Charles James McGregor, leave to appeal his dismissal for sexual harassment and...
Cancer Alliance explores legal options to compel public/private treatment partnership
Cancer activists are exploring legal options to compel the government to deal with treatment backlogs in Gauteng by partnering with the private sector, reports...
R4bn in claims brings Eastern Cape Health close to collapse
The Bhisho legislature has been told that Eastern Cape Health is on the verge of collapse and has been paralysed by medico-legal claims worth...
US Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn Obamacare for 3rd time
The US Supreme Court has turned back its third chance to upend the Affordable Care Act, reports MedicalBrief.
By a 7-2 vote, the court rejected...
New regulations for employers on COVID-19 obligations in workplace
Employees who experience side effects can be booked off on paid sick leave by producing their vaccination certificate as proof, with no need for...
US Hospital workers lawsuit challenging mandatory vaccine ‘without merit’
A United States federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by 117 workers at a Texas hospital over its requirement that they be vaccinated...
Most PPE distributors investigated not licensed — SIU
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe into Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) procurement found most companies awarded contracts were not accredited or certified to handle...
UCT neuropsychologists win a small victory against HPCSA
The persistent problems that medical professionals have in getting the Health Professions Council registration necessary in order to practise was highlighted again in the Western Cape...
NMB doctor gets 576 hours hospital service over RAF fraud
A Nelson Mandela Bay doctor must clock up a total of 576 hours at Livingstone Hospital as part of his sentence for attempting to...
UK takes the D-I-Y route on road accident injury compensation
The launch of the UK’s online personal injury compensation service will, says Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland QC bring an end to 'greedy opportunism’, reports...
Gauteng mother loses custody in unique Covid restriction
A Gauteng magistrate's court granted the estranged father of a toddler temporary custody because the child's mother had tested positive for Covid-19, reports Saturday...
Customary Initiation Act encompassing 'provincial peculiarities' gazetted
The Customary Initiation Act was gazetted on Saturday but is not yet in force, reports Legalbrief. Underpinned by a policy on the customary practice...
SAPS officers going on duty with Covid-19 may face attempted murder charges
SA Police Service (SAPS) officers have been warned that reporting for duty after testing positive for Covid-19 could result in facing attempted murder charges,...