One of Brazil’s biggest healthcare providers has been accused of covering up coronavirus deaths, pressuring doctors to prescribe ineffective treatments, and testing unproven drugs on elderly patients as part of ideologically charged efforts to help the Brazilian government resist a COVID lockdown.Prevent Senior, a health maintenance organization with a chain of hospitals and more than half a million members, is in the crosshairs of a congressional inquiry into Brazil’s coronavirus crisis and

Since his son was diagnosed with HIV during a mass outbreak in Pakistan among babies and children, hard-up Shahzado Shar has often been forced to choose between food and medicine.His five-year-old was one of hundreds who tested positive in 2019 after a whistle blower doctor uncovered a scandal involving the re-use of needles in southern Sindh province.The number of patients quickly swelled and two years later the figure stands at more than 1,500, according to data from the provincial health m

Malaysia reached a US$3.9 billion settlement with Goldman Sachs on Friday over the Wall Street titan's role in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal in exchange for the country ending all criminal proceedings against the bank. Billions of dollars were looted from sovereign wealth fund 1MDB in a fraud that allegedly involved former prime minister Najib Razak and his cronies. The cash plundered from state coffers bankrolled a global spending spree, and was spent

Three units of Goldman Sachs pleaded not guilty Monday in Malaysia over the investment bank's alleged role in the multi-billion-dollar scandal at the country's sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), official media reported.Huge sums were allegedly looted from the Malaysian fund in a globe-spanning fraud, which reportedly involved ex-leader Najib Razak and his inner circle.Goldman's role has been under scrutiny as it helped arrange a series of bond issues wor