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University settles 700 abuse claims against campus gynaecologist
The University of Southern California has agreed a $852m settlement more than 700 women who accused the college’s long-time campus gynaecologist of sexual abuse,...
DoH seeks comment on possible new assisted conception regulations
Comment is sought "within three months" on proposals for replacing the 2012 regulations on artificial human fertilisation, writes Pam Saxby in Legalbrief Policy Watch....
Boston Scientific settles claims over deceptive surgical mesh marketing
Boston Scientific Corporation has agreed to pay $188.7m to settle claims by most US states that it deceptively marketed its surgical mesh devices to...
Zim lab staff charged with issuing fake COVID-19 certificates
Four laboratory staff members at Zimbabwe’s Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital have appeared in court for allegedly issuing fake COVID-19 clearance certificates. New Zimbabwe reports that...
New York ordered to vaccinate all jail inmates
New York must immediately begin to offer COVID-19 vaccines to all incarcerated people in the state’s prisons and jails, The New York Times reports...
Concourt rejects SAMA appeal over millions in trade union deductions
The Constitutional Court 's dismissal of a SA Medical Association application for leave to appeal, last week did not mean that the non-profit professional...
State-employed practitioners and the limits to their medical indemnity
Although State-employed medical doctors have indemnity against legal claims, this is not an absolute protection, write two Medical Protection experts in MedicalBrief. As well...
US Bill to prevent Sackler family from evading Oxycontin responsibilities
Representative Carolyn B Maloney, chair of the Committee of Oversight and Reform, and senior committee member Representative Mark DeSaulnier introduced the Stop Shielding Assets...
Another former Mkhize employee benefited from contentious COVID deal
A former employee at Health Minister Zweli Mkhize’s Ikusasa Le Afrika Foundation (ILAF) is among a coterie of individuals linked to the health minister...
Lobby group to approach Public Protector over DNA backlog
Lobby group Action Society has instructed its legal team to lodge a formal complaint with the Public Protector against the police and is also...
Coke tells Competition Commission layoffs due to sugar tax
Coca-Cola Beverages Africa has told the Competition Tribunal that the retrenchment of staff two years ago was due to the effect of the sugar...
SA procedures for handling and disposal of mortal remains amended
Procedures to be followed when handling and disposing of mortal remains during the COVID-19 State of Disaster were amended on Friday and are immediately...
Eastern Cape Health: R920m in negligence payouts and R4bn in unpaid bills
The Eastern Cape government is scrambling to find unspent funds to fix the hole in the province's Health budget, which is struggling under R4bn...
Portugal's top court narrowly rejects euthanasia Bill over 'imprecision'
Portugal’s Constitutional Court has blocked a law passed by parliament introducing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill and gravely injured people, ABC News...
CTN medical supplies company donates masks to avoid overcharging case
A Cape Town medical equipment company that had been accused of overcharging the Western Cape Health Department has donated tens of thousands of surgical...
Gauteng paid R117m to dubious companies for unnecessary fumigations
Six companies, some of which only came into existence recently, pocketed at least R117m in 11 months between March 2020 and January 2021 for...
Widespread UK unease over pandemic's curbs on freedoms
Two-thirds of UK citizens agree that curbs on freedoms put in place during the pandemic should be rolled back afterwards, according to a major...
Nelson Mandela Bay surgeon sued over procedure 6 years ago
A popular Nelson Mandela Bay surgeon is facing a multimillion-rand lawsuit for an operation he performed six years ago on a woman who claims...
EFF's Bill 'undesirable' says Health portfolio committee
A Bill seeking to amend the 2003 National Health Act to provide for state-funded clinics to operate ‘24 hours a day and seven days...
Health Dept suspends contract linked to Mkhize's associates
The Health Department has suspended the services of Digital Vibes, an obscure communications firm linked to two close associates of Health Minister Dr Zweli...
Cape motor-neurone disease patient argues for right to die
In spite of a lot of literature being available online about self-administered suicide, Diethelm Harck, who suffers from motor-neurone disease (MND), is adamant that...
Minister applauds 4-year UKZN medical school corruption probe
Minister of Higher Education, Science & Innovation Dr Blade Nzimande has welcomed the four-year investigation into allegations of “places for sale” at the University...
Eastern Cape Health ordered to pay 6 doctors' salaries
The Mthatha High Court has ordered the Eastern Cape Health Department and the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital to pay six medical officers their salaries...
Silicosis and TB claimants allowed to appeal rejections
The Tshiamiso Trust said prospective beneficiaries of a fund for those who have contracted silicosis and TB in the country's gold mines would get...
Sisters lose UK court fight over 'goodbye hug' for father in coma
Three sisters in the UK have failed to persuade a judge to rule that their brain-damaged father should be kept alive until they can...
Illicit cigarette market – a multi-billion-rand free-for-all for lawbreakers
South Africa's cigarette market has been "transformed into a multi-billion rand free-for-all for lawbreakers". News24 reports that this is according to British American Tobacco...
Former Eastern Cape Health employee jailed for graft
A former Eastern Cape Health Department employee has pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Baxolile Ngoloyi has been convicted of fraud, corruption and money laundering,...
Fresh criticism of 'dysfunctional' HPCSA after Ramdhin debacle
Yet another collapsed Health Professions Council of SA disciplinary hearing has brought new criticism of an organisation that a ministerial task ream six years...
SAHPRA 'error' means Ivermectin 'has been legal for 30 years'
The civil rights organisation AfriForum claims that a slip-up by the health regulator means that the medicine has been legal all along for human...
Testosterone-level battle to European Court of Human Rights
South African athlete Caster Semenya is taking her legal fight to participate in women’s sports to the European Court of Human Rights, her latest...
New mother to be taken off life support against family's wishes
A woman in her early 30s, who has COVID-19 and is in an induced coma following the birth of a son a month ago,...
Call for SA government to revive e-cigarette legislation
Local public health researchers have called on the government to revive stalled legislation intended to regulate e-cigarettes, saying they are being heavily marketed to...
SANDF applies to SAHPRA to trial illegally imported Cuban drug
The South African military will apply to run a clinical trial for the use of a drug known as Heberon to tackle COVID-19, ending...
SACAA preliminary report into Netcare helicopter crash released
The South African Civil Aviation Authority (Sacaa) has released its preliminary accident report on the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of a medical...
Pietermaritzburg doctor in court over 'holding employees hostage'
A Pietermaritzburg doctor accused of holding employees at her private practice and of ordering armed men to terrorise and torture others over a missing...
Dlamini-Zuma granted leave to appeal ruling on tobacco ban
The Western Cape High Court has granted Co-operative Governance & Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma leave to appeal its December ruling that found the...
Afriforum: Govt admits private sector may buy COVID-19 vaccines
AfriForum and Solidarity have announced that the government has admitted under oath in its court documents that there is no legal restriction on the...
First evidence heard in Gauteng High Court 'right to die' case
What he fears most is not being able to die when the time comes. A Pretoria News report says this was the evidence of...
Amended COVID-19 disaster management regulations gazetted
Amended COVID-19 disaster management regulations have been gazetted, confirming announcements from President Cyril Ramaphosa and South Africa’s return to lockdown level one.
A statement from...
'Significant' risk to dispensing SA's unregistered Ivermectin
Four out of five Ivermectin tablets tested in South Africa had at least one unregistered active pharmaceutical ingredient, writes MedicalBrief. This had “significant potential safety...