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A new study of elderly patients showed that those who exercised in the evening experienced a greater decrease in blood pressure compared to those who exercised in the morning. The work also revealed the neurovascular mechanisms responsible for these findings. Researchers will present their work this week at the American Physiology Summit in Long Beach, California.

 FOLLOWING a statement issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ),  police says one of the victims alleged to have been assaulted by suspected United Party for National Development (UPND) cadres has not reported back to police. Police said 20-year-old Sheila Kalunga had reported the matter to police, but that she had not gone back […]

France risks shortages of abortion pills as US states build up stocks during an intensifying legal and political battle over reproductive rights, the country’s gender equality authority has warned.

 FOLLOWING a boating accident on Lake Mweru in Luapula province in which two were confirmed dead, while 12 others were feared dead, four more bodies have been retrieved. Yesterday Police confirmed that two people among them a coxswain had died, while 12 others were still missing and feared dead on Lake Mweru in Nchelenge district […]

Using data collected from the National Health and Aging Trends Study, Harvard Medical School researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital explored the various communication patterns that adults age 65 and older reported having with friends, family, and health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Michigan Medicine study finds that Black and socioeconomically disadvantaged patients with a common vascular disease have more severe symptoms before bypass surgery—and are at greater risk for amputation and other complications after the procedure.

By NATION REPORTER
THERE was drama at Ndeke House on Monday, where the Ministry of Health is domiciled when Professor Lackson Kasonka, the former Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary caused a stir after he refused to hand over his former office to his successor, Christopher Simoonga, who was appointed to the position last week.
President Hakainde Hichilema last week made several changes at Permanent Secretary level which saw the removal of Prof Kasonka who was to be redeployed.
But Prof Kasonka when contacted for a comment branded the author of the story a hired gun bent on destroying him.

 THE retirement house for former President Levy Mwanawasa cannot be sold without treasury authority as it is being built using taxpayers money, lawyer Dickson Jere told the Court. This is a matter in which two money lenders Esther Chipasi and Osuman Mustapha sued former First Lady Maureen Mwanawasa demanding for eviction and possession of the […]

By NATION REPORTER
FORMER President Edgar Lungu was yesterday blocked from travelling to the Copperbelt to attend the funeral of the father to former Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Malanji.
His chartered flight on Corporate Air was cancelled as he waited to board at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport.

By NATION REPORTER
THE decision to import GMO mealie-meal from South Africa may have been predetermined before Government made pronouncements to give permits for the importation of the commodity to satisfy the demand from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), National Democratic Congress (NDC) president Saboi Imboela has said.