charged with crimen injuria, malicious damage to property and assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in the Roodepoort Magistrate's Court on Friday, NPA spokesperson Phindi Mjonondwane said. "Oosthuizen was arrested after a video, wherein she allegedly used offensive language [including the k-word] against another motorist during what seems to be an accident scene, circulated on Twitter…
When Judy Mikovits co-authored a 2009 research paper that linked the mysterious condition known as chronic fatigue syndrome to a retrovirus that came from mice, thousands of sick patients hoping for relief rallied behind her. The scientific riddle was solved, they thought.Less than two years later those hopes were dashed when follow-up studies failed to…
Convalescent plasma therapy seems to be helping some critically ill COVID-19 patients, but hospitals need a supply of it.A York County woman was inspired by her mother to donate.Megan Hoard is feeling a lot better now than she did in March when she contracted the coronavirus."It was a little scary because I kind of went…
A Kentucky woman was caught on video shopping with a hole cut in the middle of her protective mask which she claimed made it “easier to breathe.” In the video, Joe Samaan, a gas station clerk at S J Food Mart in Lexington, sees a woman entering the shop with a torn mask. “Where did…
KANKAKEE, Ill. (WLS) — Many people are comparing the COVID-19 crisis to the world’s last pandemic, the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918.Agnes Gresen, who is 105, remembers.“I remember we had the epidemic, my dad and all of the five children, including me, were in bed with the flu and my mother died,” she said. “Died…
Here in the northern hemisphere, winter famously contributes to widespread vitamin D deficiency as sunlight exposure decreases. The trend is “very marked in clinical practice," Mary Gover, MD, an internal medicine doctor at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care in New York City, tells SELF. What you might not know, however, is that vitamin D isn’t the
Your 30s and 40s are what some would consider the best years of your life. You’re no longer “figuring it out,” but you aren’t “old” by society’s ageist standards either. It should be a sweet spot—right? But despite the illusion of stability and security, it’s also common for anxiety and self-doubt to worsen during your
5 min read WHEN THE JUSTICE Department released a trove of Epstein-related files on January 30 and then pulled down thousands of pages after redaction failures exposed victims’ identifying information and explicit material, I felt a familiar gut-drop. Once again, the people with the least power were being asked to pay twice—first for the abuse