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NATION REPORTER PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has urged African nations to deepen economic collaboration through increased intra-continental trade, saying Africa must unite as a single economic force to unlock its full potential. Speaking at the official opening of the 2025 Land-Linked Zambia Conference held at CIELA Resort in Chongwe this morning, President Hichilema emphasized the urgent […]

The persistent higher rate of alcohol deaths in England since the pandemic in 2020 is an “acute crisis” requiring urgent action from the government, according to a new study led by researchers at UCL and the University of Sheffield.

Research by Katerina Johnson and Laura Steenbergen published in the journal npj Mental Health Research shows that taking probiotics can help reduce negative feelings. They also investigated which people benefit most from these “good” bacteria.

A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official told staff this week to start planning for the agency’s splintering.

Everyone wants good quality health care, but what exactly is quality and how do you measure it? Is it to do with the waiting time for home care services? Or how many nursing home residents have had medical supervision in the past year? Or whether the medication lists have been checked recently?

A measles outbreak in Knox County, Ohio, grew to 14 cases this week, with the state’s overall count in double digits across four counties.

Trauma alone doesn’t cause posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); how we process and imagine it plays a key role, according to new research. A recent Baycrest study suggests that having vivid visual imagery is linked to a greater risk of developing PTSD, in which debilitating mental health symptoms persist for more than one month following exposure to traumatic or highly stressful events. This study is among the largest in providing high-quality evidence of this link and examining visual and spatial imagery as distinct features of memory.

US authorities are conducting a large-scale study that should in several months reveal the cause of the autism “epidemic,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday.

Shoulders are, in many ways, a marvel. One shoulder has four separate joints, packed with muscles, that allow us to move our arm in eight different major ways, giving us the most degrees of freedom of any joint in the body. We can swim, toss, hug, and even punch because of the movement our shoulders enable.

If you eat a snack—a meatball, say, or a marshmallow—how will it affect your blood sugar? It’s a surprisingly tricky question; the body’s glycemic response to different foods varies based on individual genetics, microbiomes, hormonal fluctuations, and more. Because of that, providing personalized nutritional advice—which can help patients manage diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases, among other conditions—requires costly and intrusive testing, making it hard to deliver effective care at scale.