Priest dies after being shot in the head near Tongaat, outside Durban, on Monday. Paramedics found the priest in a critical condition. He later died. No arrests have been made.A 41-year-old priest died after he was shot in the head at a mission house next to an Anglican church in Hambanathi near Tongaat this week, police have…
Dr Kresen Pillay, clinical veterinarian at the Johannesburg Zoo and UP alumnus, does a final check of Makoko before he was offloaded from the helicopter. A 210kg gorilla from the Johannesburg Zoo had to get a CT scan of his nasal passages as they were almost entirely blocked. Since road transport would take too long, the…
KAWASAKI, Japan (Reuters) - Two paramedics jump out the back of an idling ambulance with Tokyo plates, carefully lowering an elderly woman on a stretcher. The patient, her small face covered with an oxygen mask, disappears behind St. Marianna’s automatic doors. Medical workers work at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients…
By Leah Crane SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft will be used for its first crewed launch in MayDescription:SpaceX/Flickr SpaceX and NASA are gearing up for a historic launch. On 27 May, they plan to launch astronauts from the US for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle programme. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft will…
In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The upshot, she wrote in an email: Babies fed rival Mead Johnson Nutrition’s acidified liquid human milk fortifier — a nutritional supplement used in
4 min read WHEN YOU'RE TELLING a horror story that's based around a family function or family dynamic, it's important to make sure you're getting the parents just right. Ari Aster's Hereditary, which came out in 2018, hit the nail right on the head, casting Toni Collette as the film's lead—and the increasingly unhinged (and
Dietitians regularly talk up the importance of having variety in your diet to make sure you hit your nutritional needs. But new research suggests that’s actually not helpful—at least, not when you’re trying to lose weight. The study, which was published in the journal Health Psychology, makes a strong case for sticking with the same