A nurse checks a Covid-19 patient's ventilator. Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images In what could be a first for the country, a Durban doctor says one of his patients has contracted Covid-19 twice within three months.The patient had initially presented with flu-like symptoms after travelling in another African country and tested positive for the virus. Then, three months…
SAPS official attending to a crime scene. A Free State man and woman have been arrested for allegedly offering a police officer a R20 000 bribe.According to provincial police spokesperson Brigadier Motantsi Makhele, the pair attempted to get the head of detectives in Senekal to release four people who were arrested for a business robbery…
A woman has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a seven-month-old baby girl in Cape Town. A woman has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping her sister's seven-month-old baby girl in Cape Town. According to Western Cape police, the baby girl had last been seen with her aunt.It is believed the two were at Cape Town International Airport…
Knocking out pregnancy discomforts with foodPregnancy can come with discomforts like nausea, fluid retention, heartburn and constipation. Registered dietitian Willow Jarosh shares recipes from her book “Healthy, Happy Pregnancy Cookbook” to help counterbalance some of those symptomsCan a pregnant woman spread the coronavirus to her fetus?It’s possible, but it seems to be relatively rare and…
Marzanne and Thomas Lennox on their wedding day. A mother-to-be from Midrand lost her unborn baby boy after contracting the coronavirus.The woman has been in hospital on a ventilator for more than two weeks. She was only informed of her baby's death on Tuesday after she gained enough strength. A pregnant Midrand woman has lost her unborn…
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