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SA Treasury Fact-Sheet: Indemnity in vaccine procurement
National Treasury is committed to ensuring that “the issue of indemnity” does not become “an obstacle that ultimately inhibits the vital procurement of vaccines”...
Indian nationals appear for suspected Ivermectin possession
Three suspects found separately in possession of suspected Ivermectin tablets at the OR Tambo International Airport were granted bail in the Kempton Park Magistrate's...
UK govt accused of inaction following inquiry into unnecessary surgery
Hundreds of private hospital patients in Britain who were operated on by surgeon Ian Paterson have yet to be traced, as victims mark a...
McKinsey reaches settlement deal with US states over opioid marketing advice
Consulting giant McKinsey has reached a $573m settlement with US states over its work advising OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and other drug manufacturers...
Hawks and SAHPRA raid for ‘COVID cure' blocked by SANDF
The elite Hawks and the medical regulator SAHPRA were sent packing after an armed stand-off with the SA National Defence Force police during a...
High Court settlement allows doctors immediate use of Ivermectin
A settlement reached with SAHPRA in the High Court this week, effectively means that if doctors deem it necessary, they can start Ivermectin treatment...
Tembisa defies Health Ombud over findings and recommendations
The Tembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital (TPTH) says it will take a damning report by the Health Ombudsman on review to challenge its findings and...
SAHPRA: Guidelines on accessing Ivermectin Compassionate Use Programme
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) Section 21 Access to Unregistered Medicines – January 2021
IVERMECTIN CONTROLLED COMPASSIONATE USE PROGRAMME
This document provides guidance...
SAMA joins opposition to amendment to Compensation Act
The SA Medical Association, the United Domestic Workers of SA and the Injured Workers Action Group (Iwag) have called for the scrapping of a...
DA lodges urgent application over government's vaccine rollout
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has lodged an urgent application to the Western Cape High Court to compel government to develop and release a comprehensive...
Judgment corrected to 'delink' Makhura from PPE scandal
Judge Selewe Peter Mothle has made a critical correction to a judgment implicating Gauteng Premier David Makhura in involvement in a procurement scandal that...
Ivermectin suspects detained at ORT in custody pending NPA decision
Five suspects who were nabbed at OR Tambo International airport – in separate incidents – after they were found with R6m worth of unregistered...
Concern over move to end right to cede work-related compensation claims
Proposed amendments to legislation governing work-related compensation claims that will prohibit the ceding of claims to administration companies dedicated to this kind of work...
Baby's brain injury in Butterworth Hospital 'could have been prevented'
The Eastern Cape High Court (Mthatha) has found that doctors and nurses at Butterworth Hospital performed disgracefully when a pregnant woman (16) in labour...
Arrest of senior UKZN staffer involved in 'cash for places' investigation
A senior staff member at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) who was leading the investigation into the sale of placements at its medical school...
Sandton doctor who boasted about causing suicide suspended
A doctor who boasted on social media about how what he had done had led a person to commit suicide, has been suspended. According...
Dlamini-Zuma's appeal against tobacco ban to be heard online
The Western Cape High Court will hear Co-operative Governance & Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s application for leave to appeal its December ruling declaring...
US pharmacist admits to tampering with vaccine vials
A US pharmacist has agreed to plead guilty to tampering with COVID-19 vaccine vials because he believed the jabs could harm people, prosecutors say....
Reuters wins bid to have Merck documents Propecia unsealed
A US judge has granted a Reuters request to unseal Merck & Co documents produced in lawsuits related to its anti-baldness treatment Propecia, finding...
SIU has 'not a shred of evidence' against Gauteng Health MEC
The Special Investigating Unit's (SIU) findings against former Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku are not supported by a shred of evidence, his legal team...
Afriforum joins doctor and patients for declaratory order on Ivermectin
A doctor, two of his patients and AfriForum have launched an urgent application in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) to force authorities to give...
Junior doctor still awaits HPCSA finality on 'abortion' hearing
The Health Professions Council (HPCSA) has yet to respond to an application before the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) to compel it to finalise the...
HPCSA will take yet another try at a disciplinary hearing into Basson
The Health Professions Councilis to launch a fresh disciplinary action against apartheid era chemical warfare specialist Dr Wouter Basson, writes MedicalBrief. The HPCSA's earlier...
Western Cape govt, liquor traders and restaurants target alcohol ban
Tavern and shebeen owners have called for the government to lift the ban on the sale of alcohol in seven days or risk collapsing...
Challenge to HPCSA ban on naming PE specialist accused of sexual assault
Graphic details of how a top Port Elizabeth medical specialist allegedly sexually assaulted two of his former patients were heard during a Health Professions...
Culpable homicide case against Beale moved to High Court
The culpable homicide case of Dr Peter Beale has been moved to the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) and the case will be called in...
Bail for nurse in dead patient's credit card fraud case
A nurse who – with a colleague – allegedly made personal payments using the bank card of a patient who had died from COVID-19,...
Queenstown bogus doctor and assistant charged with fraud and theft
A suspected bogus doctor and her assistant are to appear in court in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape, reports Eyewitness News. They were arrested...
DA taking government to court over vaccine strategy
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has announced it is taking government to court as President Cyril Ramaphosa is yet to give full details of the...
SCA: Doctor must face HPCSA over 'investments' solicited from patients
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has overturned a High Court decision that shielded a doctor accused of improperly persuading patients to invest in...
We should not allow a cannabis free-for-all – Yale ethicist
Mental health and addiction experts should lead the development of guidelines around the use of cannabis for medicinal and recreational purposes, writes Dr Sarah...
Inquiry finds schemes discriminated against black healthcare providers
Some of South Africa’s biggest medical aid schemes practised "unfair racial discrimination" in their fraud, waste and abuse investigations of black healthcare providers, found...
UK coalition seeks emergency indemnity over COVID-19 treatment decisions
Emergency legislation is needed to protect British doctors and nurses from "inappropriate" legal action over critical COVID-19 treatment decisions made amid the pressures of...
SA's vexing problem of liability for potential vaccine side-effects
Who is liable for serious vaccine side effects? That, says a report in The Times, s an unanswered question hovering over negotiations between government...
4,200 wine farmers threaten legal action on alcohol ban
Just a week after SA Breweries took the government to court over its alcohol sales ban, a group representing about 4,200 family-owned wine farms...
Hawks investigating allegedly inflated SAPS PPE tenders
Two top cops assigned by Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole to investigate and suspend Crime Intelligence head Peter Jacobs on charges of alleged personal protective...
WSU students guilty of murder of final-year medical student
Four Walter Sisulu University (WSU) students have been found guilty of the murder of final-year medical student Lwando Mantshontsho (23) in his room at...
PE specialist faces eight sexual misconduct complaints
Eight former patients of a Port Elizabeth medical specialist have laid criminal complaints against him – six of sexual assault and two of rape....
Harare lab owned by former Health minister linked to COVID-19 'scam'
A private laboratory, reportedly owned by disgraced Zimbabwean Health Minister Obadiah Moyo, is accused of issuing fake COVID-19 certificates to international travellers without them...
Government and Batsa clash again in appeals and counter-appeals over tobacco ban
The government is appealing the Western Cape High Court judgment that the ban on the trade of tobacco products during the hard lockdown was...