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SA health NGOs join in cystic fibrosis drugs battle
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Doctors without Borders (MSF) are being admitted as amicus curiae (friends of the court) in a case against...
Doctor charged with PPE fraud and theft
Gauteng Department of Health employee Dr Obakeng Stephen Mookeletsi – from Leratong Hospital – has appeared in court on charges of fraud, theft and...
Gauteng Health in court over medical waste tender deal
The Gauteng Health Department is being sued in the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) after being accused of awarding a multimillion-rand medical waste tender –...
Judge rebukes RAF for disobeying court orders in hospital claims
A High Court judgment has slammed the conduct of the Road Accident Fund (RAF) and its CEO, Collins Letsoalo, and the manner in which...
US hospital sued after mislabelled IV bag leads to patient's paralysis
A Pennsylvanian couple has launched a medical malpractice suit after the man, in hospital at the time with Covid, was given a paralysing agent...
Patients sue Spanish government over banned painkiller
A patients group representing several British victims has launched legal action against the Spanish Government over claims it failed to safeguard people against the...
GP fined for spreading false Covid information
A Pretoria GP has been found guilty by the Health Professions Council of SA of unethical conduct by disseminating false information about Covid-19 vaccines...
GP (85) pleads for lenient sentence in fake death certificate case
An 85-year-old doctor accused of issuing a fake death certificate, who previously claimed he was “too old for a trial”, is now negotiating a...
Full salary for North West health official despite 11-month absence
Despite not reporting for duty since January, a senior North West Health Department official facing misconduct and criminal charges related to alleged tender fraud has...
Cancer patients granted interdict to keep dismissed oncologist at Cape hospital
The Western Cape High Court issued a provisional interdict this week to keep in place the medical privileges of Dr Louis Kathan, described by...
Fake radiographer gets unusual sentence
A woman in the Eastern Cape who falsified her radiography qualifications was handed a sentence of 2 000 hours’ periodical imprisonment for “myriad lies...
Looming legal challenges against AstraZeneca over Covid jab
AstraZeneca is facing legal action by a British man, Jamie Scott, who suffered a blood clot that left him with brain damage and unable...
Critically-ill UK baby loses fight for life
Terminally-ill eight-month-old British baby Indi Gregory died in her mother’s arms on Monday morning after an epic battle by her parents to keep her...
Vaginal mesh implant victim awarded £1m
An NHS hospital trust in Britain has to cough up at least £1m in damages to a woman who suffered traumatic complications from a vaginal...
Listeriosis victims still awaiting justice
Five years since a listeriosis outbreak in SA killed more than 200 people and caused severe illness in many others, human rights lawyers are...
RAF and its CEO face contempt of court suit
Discovery Health plans to launch contempt of court proceedings against both the Road Accident Fund and CEO Collins Letsoalo “within the next few days”...
Prison for Indonesia cough syrup boss and staff after child deaths
The boss and three other officials of an Indonesian firm in East Java, whose cough syrup was linked to the deaths of more than...
Thousands of black women sue over cancer from hair products claims
Leading hair straightening products are being blamed for causing cancer in thousands of women of colour across America, who with their lawyers, are planning...
Life Esidimeni inquest concludes
Proceedings in the Life Esidimeni inquest have concluded, with the Pretoria High Court now tasked with making its findings and recommendations on who was...
US doctor (84) challenges age-based cognition screening
An ophthalmologist in America is suing a medical group for age discrimination because it requires a cognition assessment for those aged 70 and older.
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Parents sue company for daughter’s death after highly caffeinated beverage
The parents of 21-year-old college student Sarah Katz, who had severe arrhythmia, are suing a US company after alleging its lemonade played a role...
US flight attendants win chemicals-in-uniforms case
A Californian jury has ruled that a clothing company should pay more than $1m to four American Airlines flight attendants who blamed chemicals –...
Regulator loses bid to stop healthcare vouchers sale
SA's medical schemes regulator has lost its High Court bid to stop Discovery Health and a division of Netcare from selling prepaid private healthcare...
TikTok ‘doctor’ a free man after charges dropped
Charges were withdrawn this week against the man known on Tiktok as “Dr Matthew Lani”, who was arrested on Sunday night at Helen Joseph...
DA councillor in ‘bogus’ medical CV scandal
A DA councillor in Cape Town is being probed by the party over allegedly bogus medical qualifications . Abdulkader Elyas apparently claimed on his...
Ex-Mayo Clinic doctor charged with fatally poisoning pharmacist wife
A former US Mayo Clinic doctor faces 40 years behind bars if found guilty of fatally poisoning his pharmacist wife, whose death had initially...
HPCSA fines doctors for illegal body part harvesting, incorrect procedures, fraud …
MedicalBrief lists the medley of guilty judgments handed down by the Health Professions Council of SA between mid-July and September, from unauthorised removal of...
SECTION27 seeks culpable homicide charges against Life Esidimeni trio
Public interest law centre SECTION27 will argue for culpable homicide charges to be brought against three witnesses for their roles in the deaths of...
Accused in cough syrup deaths appear in Gambia court
A judge in a Gambian court has adjourned until 7 November a trial involving the deaths of 70 children linked to cough syrup made...
Woman wins case after cancer misdiagnosis and two years of treatment
In a shocking case of misdiagnosis, a British woman who spent two years having nine cycles of treatment after being told she had skin...
Hospital sued over woman's death after four-hour wait
A man has sued a Washington hospital after his wife, aged 41, died waiting for care in the emergency department waiting room last year,...
Parents appeal after losing dying baby’s treatment fight
The parents of a critically ill seven-month-old baby girl in Britain are preparing for an appeal after a judge ruled that doctors could withdraw...
Man with Covid who spat at nurse loses dismissal challenge
The dismissal of a man fired after spitting at a nurse – while he was awaiting the results of a Covid-19 test – has...
RAF refuses to budge on medical aid claims despite top court's ruling
Despite a Constitutional Court ruling last week compelling the Road Accident Fund to resume and honour payment of claims lodged on behalf of medical...
SCA overturns High Court ruling in R7m negligence case
An Mpumalanga mother, whose child’s cerebral palsy (CP) was probably due to health officials’ negligence, has been granted a R7m settlement from the provincial...
Suspended medico-legal lawyer’s trust account seized
In another blow for disgraced fraud-accused advocate Zuko Nonxuba – tied to numerous cases of trust misappropriation – the Legal Practice Council (LPC) has...
Fake doctor arrested after swindling thousands
Nearly one week after he gave police officers the slip during a search at his home, a bogus Facebook medical practitioner has been re-arrested.
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Prison for father and sons who peddled bleach ‘miracle’ Covid cure
A Florida man and three sons will face years behind bars for using a business masquerading as a church to rake in more than...
Lawyer who blew disabled children’s millions ‘should be struck off’
Fraud-accused lawyer Zuko Nonxuba, whose firm lodged medical negligence claims worth nearly R1bn against the Western and Eastern Cape Health Departments – where he...
Bogus TikTok doctor charged by Gauteng Health
The Health Department in Gauteng has opened a criminal case against a man who claimed on TikTok that he was a medical doctor, although...