South Africa’s public healthcare system is under severe financial strain. The total value of medico-legal claims against the state has skyrocketed to an astonishing R77 billion as of March 2024. Provincial health departments, particularly in the Eastern Cape and Gauteng, are battling thousands of lawsuits. These lawsuits divert critical funds away from essential patient services. In a written reply to…
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Roche sues over alleged misuse of trade secrets
Roche has filed a lawsuit in the California federal court against Stanford University and medical technology startup Foresight Diagnostics, alleging that Foresight misappropriated its genetic-sequencing trade secrets to develop competing cancer-detection products. In the complaint, Roche claims that Stanford University professors Maximilian Diehn and Ash Alizadeh, whose technology Roche acquired in 2015, secretly established Foresight while serving as consultants for…