Professor Lungile Pepeta. Professor Lungile Pepeta died of Covid-19 on Friday, reportedly after being placed on a ventilator.He was a renowned paediatric cardiologist and had been helping to spearhead the response to Covid-19.Pepeta took up the chair at the CMS following the death of Dr Clarence Mini, also from the virus.Nelson Mandela University's health sciences…
Incoming Wits Vice-Chancellor Zeblon Vilakazi (@Wits_News) Professor Zeblon Vilakazi will take over as the new Wits Vice-Chancellor from Professor Adam Habib, who is stepping down at the end of the year.Vilakazi is the current Vice-Principal and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Postgraduate Studies at Wits.Vilakazi also chairs South Africa's National Quantum Computing Working Committee. Professor Zeblon Vilakazi…
Only 10 per cent of people who are infected with the coronavirus develop antibodies, a professor claims. Professor Karol Sikora, an advisor to the World Health Organisation, said the majority would have a negative result on an antibody test, even though they have had the coronavirus. Governments have pinned their hopes on antibody testing to understand how…
Sir John Bell, the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, said Sunday that researchers at the university working on a potential vaccine for the coronavirus would likely have an idea of its efficacy by June.Bell told NBC’s Chuck ToddCharles (Chuck) David ToddTrump blasts Fox News, says he wants 'an alternative' How autocrats are using…
The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today. A Stanford University professor’s wife invited parents in a wealthy enclave of Northern California to sign up for her husband’s coronavirus…
Philip Friedman 3 min read MEN'S HEALTH IS 38 this year, and like any self-respecting guy in their mid-thirties, we're taking a beat to look back on some of the highlights over the three and a half decades we've been around, from the guys who've best exemplified strength over the years to some of our
11 min read AS A BRIGHT light flashes against a mustard yellow backdrop, 33-year-old actor Chase Stokes plays with the edges of a chunky sweater. First, he pulls on a sleeve, like he’s simply at home getting dressed, not on the last day of a long-ass press tour for the fifth and final season of
Published: August 25, 2026, 9:44 pm Indus Foods LLC, doing business as Gangothri Foods, an Austin, TX, firm, is recalling 1,626 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) pickled goat and chicken products that were produced without the benefit of inspection, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The RTE pickled goat and chicken products were produced between
