A woman accused of killing her husband in Chilanga has allegedly been languishing in police custody for eight months without being taken to court. Maya Musamba Miti of Chilanga has complained before the High Court that, prior to interrogation, she was allegedly raped by a police officer while handcuffed in the bush. The woman is […]
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ABOUT five years later, the famous Honey Bee drug case is back in court. Director of Public Prosecutions(DPP) Gilbert Phiri has filed court documents seeking to appeal against the acquittal of eight people, among them former Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya, linked to the case. In 2021, a magistrate acquitted Dr Chilufya and seven others who […]
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THE gang leader of a notorious criminal group that stole phones and other accessories from motorists at Kafue Bridge has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Joshua Ndeba, 38, was jailed alongside four of his accomplices, who each received a lesser sentence of two years’ imprisonment for stealing from motor vehicles. Lusaka Magistrate […]
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The combination of air pollution, dense urban development and limited green spaces increases the risk of asthma in both children and adults. This is shown by a new study conducted as part of a major EU collaboration led by researchers from Karolinska Institutet. The findings have been published in The Lancet Regional Health—Europe.
Your bile duct network is a true tree of life. A floppy, pink tree of life.
Having school dinners rather than packed lunches could encourage picky-eating 13-year-olds to eat a wider variety of foods, according to a new University of Bristol-led study. The findings are published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics today.
A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) in collaboration with the Clínic-IDIBAPS, has shown, for the first time, how lung capacity evolves from childhood to old age. The findings, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, provide a new basic framework for assessing lung health.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended the decades-old dogma of how connections between brain cells are rearranged during states of heightened vigilance or attention. The team found that a brain chemical associated with alertness, attention and learning alters brain connectivity and function not by acting directly on neurons, the cells known for their quick transmission of information, but through the work of astrocytes, another, slower-acting type of brain cell that is often overlooked in the field of neuroscience.
Successfully treating type 2 diabetes may involve focusing on brain neurons, rather than simply concentrating on obesity or insulin resistance, according to a study published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Biomedical science in the United States is at a crossroads.
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