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Communities ravaged by America’s opioid epidemic are starting to get their share of a $50 billion pie from legal settlements.

Two people in Southern California have come down with dengue fever without traveling outside the United States, where the mosquito-borne illness is rare, health officials said.

By NATION REPORTER

VISITING German President Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, yesterday paid a courtesy call on Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Brain Mundubile and his Chief Whip Stephen Kampyongo and discussed a range of governance and human rights issues affecting Zambia.

By NATION REPORTER

GOVERNMENT has dispelled assertions that it has been scheming to secretly alter the Constitution by expunging the provision of a running mate and the 50% +1 majority vote as well as extending the presidential term to seven years from the current five.

By NATION REPORTER

FOR the second day running, chaos was yet characterised the Parliamentary session after Speaker of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti banished and ejected Petauke Central Independent Member of Parliament Emmanuel Banda.

By NATION REPORTER

TOM Shamakamba, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Director-General yesterday shunned the Parliamentary committee and instead delegated two of his junior officers who were sent away even before they could make their submissions.

A new study has found there is significant scope to increase the number of eye donations from patients cared for in hospice and palliative care settings—donations which are desperately needed for sight-restoring surgeries.

A new article published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews has found that insulin can be kept at room temperature for months without losing potency, offering hope to people living with diabetes in regions with limited access to health care or stable powered refrigeration. This affects millions of people living in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in rural areas, as well as people whose lives have been disrupted by conflict or natural disasters.

Researchers have reached an agreement on how best to measure the severity and impact of long COVID by identifying a “Core Outcome Measure Set” (COMS).

Mount Sinai researchers have shed valuable light on the mechanism of a key protein that regulates the plasticity and function of the hippocampus, a key brain region involved in memory and learning, and that decreases with age in mice.