Many tiny organisms including bacteria, fungi and viruses normally live on our bodies, and even inside us. These are called the microbiome. The large number of these organisms living in the gastrointestinal tract are collectively known as the gut microbiome.
It’s as safe to get your prescription from a nurse practitioner as from a doctor
Nurse practitioners are just as good as primary care doctors at avoiding potentially harmful prescriptions for older patients—but both need to do better, a large, new study suggests.
Gov’t digitises NRCs
By MWANSA PINTU
GOVERNMENT, through the Department of National Registration, Passports and Citizenship (DNRPC), has opened enrollment people into the Integrated National Registration Information System (INRIS).
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ZNS ventures into mining
By Nation Reporter
THE Zambia National Service (ZNS) has now ventured into mining, Vice-President Mutale Nalumango has announced.
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A relational framework for microbiome research that includes Indigenous communities
Research on the trillions of microorganisms that make up a person’s microbiome can lead to medical breakthroughs to treat diseases like inflammatory bowel syndrome and diabetes. According to Alyssa Bader, a Tsimshian Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University, microbiome samples from Indigenous communities have the potential to further Western medicine, but those same communities often have been excluded from the research process and may miss out on the benefits that result from their contributions to science. There is also a history of this research exploiting and harming Indigenous peoples.
ALL IS NOT WELL
THE new dawn administration must stop deceiving itself that all is well in the country just because people are not rioting.
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LCC heightens inspections in cholera-prone areas
By NATION REPORTER
THE Lusaka City Council (LCC) has declared its readiness for the upcoming 2023/2024 rainy season through its Public Health Department.
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FQM maintains production growth
By NATION REPORTER
FIRST Quantum Minerals (FQM) has maintained its trend of increasing production in the third quarter of 2023, propelled by the mining firm’s execution of new agreements with the Zambian government last year.
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Kafwaya decries emerging dictatorship in Zambia
By Nation Reporter
Parliament on Thursday heard that the UPND government is deepening its dictatorship and that the country is on the verge of collapsing because the new dawn administration has embarked on a trajectory of breaking down the rule of law with impunity.
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UPND has mismanage fuel supply chain – Kang’ombe
By NATION REPORTER
THE fuel supply chain for the country has not been mismanaged but has completely broken down and the negative impact of the UPND government policies has been felt by citizens, Kamfinsa Member of Parliament Christopher Kang’ombe has said.
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