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The affair between Dr. Xiao Fei and trainee doctor Dong Xiying exposes how nepotism and inequality remain deeply rooted in China’s hospitals One of China’s most explosive healthcare scandals in recent memory erupted two weeks ago. It’s still dominating headlines, and shaking public trust in China’s medical and education systems. It began at the prestigious…

The UK will be the first country in the world to use an AI system to analyse hospital databases and catch potential safety scandals early, the Government has announced. The technology can identify patterns of abuse, serious injuries, deaths or other incidents that can slip through the net. When concerns are raised, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will send…

Erythropoietin — also known as EPO — is mostly remembered as the drug that cyclist Lance Armstrong dishonestly used to win seven Tours de France. The blood thickener’s role in a cancer drug disaster that, by one estimate, cost nearly 500,000 Americans their lives has been forgotten. That darker tale is one of the defining…

British health minister Wes Streeting launched an investigation into maternity services in England on Monday, aimed at driving urgent improvements after a series of high-profile failures that have led to the deaths of babies and mothers. The investigation will aim to report back by December 2025, Streeting said in a statement, adding that it would…

Hundreds were charged Monday in connection with $14.6 billion worth of health care fraud schemes that included supplying millions of opioid pills to drug dealers and giving elderly patients on hospice care “unnecessary” wound grafts, the Department of Justice announced. The operation, which the department called the largest health care fraud takedown in its history,…

A soon-to-be-released documentary film aims to change the conversation around hemophilia, a condition in which many female patients go misdiagnosed for years and often feel ignored or overlooked by healthcare providers. Sanofi provided financial support for the film, which was produced by patient engagement agency Believe Limited. The French drugmaker sells several treatments for the…

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The Justice Department has charged a Pakistani national who allegedly orchestrated a $650 million fraud scheme that primarily targeted an Arizona Medicaid program offering addiction treatment and other services for Native Americans. Court papers say the defendant, Farrukh Ali, conspired with at least 41 addiction clinics to bill the state for hundreds of millions of dollars for…

The Iraqi Ministry of Health mentioned on Sunday that the agreement with Sanofi, a French pharmaceutical and healthcare company, represents an essential step toward strengthening Iraq’s pharmaceutical industry. During his participation in a scientific workshop on biosimilar medicines and intellectual property, Deputy Health Minister Hani al-Oqabi explained that the agreement reached with Sanofi is not…

A federal judge in Boston on Monday blocked the Trump administration from cutting funding to all Planned Parenthood affiliates as part of the GOP’s new tax cut and health law.  The ruling by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani expands on a decision last week, when she issued a preliminary injunction restoring Medicaid funding for only 10…