The actor best known for his roles on television shows “Benson” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” René Auberjonois has died. He was 79 years old. The actor died in his home on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, in Los Angeles. He died of metastatic lung cancer, according to his son, Remy Auberjonois. Auberjonois worked consistently […]
On Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, a sailor opened fire at a U.S. Navy shipyard at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. Two civilian shipyard employees were killed and another was wounded. The sailor died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a Navy spokesperson. Rear Admiral Robert Chadwick stated that a third civilian employee […]
Doctors at Duke University Medical Center “reanimated” a heart for a first-of-its-kind transplant performed on an adult in the U.S. Typically, heart transplants come from donors after brain death. This means the heart is still beating. Duke used the approach called donation after circulatory death (DCD). It relies on hearts that have stopped beating. They […]