Cart is empty GIDEON NYENDWA LUSAKA lawyer Celestine Mukandila has challenged Attorney General Mulilo Kabesha to explain the legal dilemma surrounding the death of former President Edgar Lungu, who passed away while still active in politics, a situation that had stripped him of state privileges, potentially including eligibility for a state funeral. Mr Mukandila said the current situation […]
HIGH COURT TOSSES OUT MUNIR ZULU’S PETITION OVER JAIL TERM
GRACE CHAILE HIGH Court Judge Situmbeko Chocho has dismissed a petition by former Lumezi Member of Parliament, Munir Zulu, who sought to challenge his one-year jail sentence imposed by the Subordinate Court. Zulu had approached the High Court seeking an order to stay the execution of the sentence and to quash what he described as […]
Speaker Mutti, Veep anger Miles
NATION REPORTER TEMPERS flared up yesterday in Parliament after Vice President Mutale Nalumango and Speaker of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti ganged up and mocked Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa as former President of the Patriotic Front (PF) and instead recognised expelled Mafinga law maker as the leader of the former ruling party. Mr […]
No HH, no State Funeral
GIDEON NYENDWA THE UPND government has warned that it would be considered a treasonous offence for the family of late former President Edgar Lungu to propose that President Hakainde Hichilema, as head of State should not attend the State funeral of his predecessor. Vice President Mutale Nalumango is warning that any attempt to exclude President […]
Neighborly help in the brain: Cerebral cortex networks rapidly reorganize to compensate for lost neurons
How the brain largely maintains its function when neurons are lost—this is what researchers at the University Medical Center Mainz, the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and Hebrew University (Jerusalem) have deciphered. They show that neuronal networks in the cerebral cortex reorganize within a short period of time, with other nerve cells taking over the tasks of the lost neurons.
US measles count nears 1,200 cases as Ohio officials confirm 3 outbreaks are over
The U.S. logged fewer than 30 measles cases this week as Ohio health officials confirmed three outbreaks in two counties were over.
FDA approves pembrolizumab for resectable head and neck cancer with PD-L1 expression
Pembrolizumab, an immune checkpoint inhibitor, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with resectable locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma whose tumors express PD-L1 [Combined Positive Score (CPS) ≥1] as determined by an FDA-approved test.
2020 to 2022 saw nearly 2 million annual emergency room visits for dental issues
Tooth disorders accounted for an annual average of 1,944,000 emergency department visits during 2020 to 2022, according to a June data brief published by the National Center for Health Statistics.
Evolutionary model for antibiotic resistance reveals dose timing critical to care
Cleveland Clinic researchers are working to improve the way we use evolutionary modeling to understand drug resistance. The study, published in Science Advances, uses a new type of evolutionary model called a “fitness seascape” to incorporate a patient’s dosage schedule into models that predict whether an infection will develop antibiotic resistance, and has found that inconsistent timing and missing early doses can lead to treatment failure.
Different genetic roots of autism may lead to shared brain activity and behaviors
New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School suggests that different genetic forms of autism may lead to similar patterns in brain activity and behavior. The findings were recently published in Nature Neuroscience.