Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals

Orpea Group, the second largest operator of eldercare homes in Europe, has attempted to repair its image after a national scandal swept France over a book that alleged widespread abuse of its residents. The company published a positive external audit in June but scandals continue to emerge. Read More

Hermine Bideaux died of COVID-19 in April 2020 after being rushed to a hospital near the Korian Bel Air eldercare home near Paris, France. Olivia Mokiejewski, her granddaughter, has since filed a manslaughter and endangerment lawsuit against Korian for Hermine’s death, one of many lodged against the company. Read More

French investigators raided the headquarters of the Orpea Group in Puteux, just outside Paris, as well as multiple eldercare homes operated by the company, in response to a new book titled "Les Fossoyeurs" (“The Gravediggers”) that alleged that residents were being mistreated. Read More

(una versión en español de este artículo se puede leer aquí) In mid-September Juan Carlos López & María del Carmen Florencio took their four-month-old daughter Valentina to Quirónsalud’s hospital in Málaga, Spain, with a fever. Over the next few days, they returned again and again. Each time, the doctors misdiagnosed her. Read More

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An inspection of Chilton Meadows, a care home for elderly people with dementia in Stowmarket, Suffolk, in March 2021, found a number of residents with "distressed behaviours" including one using a walking frame the wrong way round. The home also had radiator pipes carrying scalding hot water with no protective covering to protect residents who might have fallen on them. Read More

Walgreens, a major pharmacy chain in the U.S., has been sued by the state of Arkansas for failing to report large numbers of suspicious prescriptions of opioid medications. Arkansas is the latest of several U.S. states to allege that the company did not heed government warnings about the problem. Read More