New Michigan State University and Corewell Health research shows that in-home, enhanced prenatal services provided by community health workers, nurses and social workers can dramatically reduce the risk of premature births, the main cause of infant deaths among Black and Hispanic populations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2020 ranked Michigan seventh highest in the U.S. for infant mortality.
NOW 18 LAWYERS JOIN GAY RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
…but the Church says it is worrying that the Chief Justice is at the forefront of championing unconstitutional alien, abominable practices
By NATION REPORTER
ABOUT 18 human rights lawyers have supported chief Justice Dr. Mumba Malila SC’s position on the need to respect the human rights of gay people in Zambia.
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CHAWAMA GOES AGOG WIH ECL
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HUNDREDS of mourners in Chawama, Lusaka enthusiastically cheered former President Edgar Lungu on his way from attending a requiem mass for former freedom fighter and former councilor Peter Lwipa at Chawama’s Regina Pacis Parish Catholic Church early yesterday.
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Elevated temperatures and climate change may contribute to rising drug and alcohol disorders
Hospital visits from alcohol- and substance-related disorders are driven by elevated temperatures and could be further affected by rising temperatures due to climate change, according to new research by environmental health scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
IG BEING POLITICAL – MITI
…as she cautions President Hichilema that the Inspector General of Police Musamba is trouble for the country’s politics
By NATION REPORTER
LAURA Miti is asking President Hakainde Hichilema to rein in Inspector General of Police Graphael Musamba because the country’s police office has become the most politically active Zambia has ever had.
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Learning collaborative promotes mifepristone education and utilization training in federally qualified health centers
Researchers created a learning collaborative that included implementing an intervention titled, “Excellence in Providing Access to New Directions in Mifepristone Use (ExPAND Mifepristone)” in two Chicago-area Federally Qualified Health Centers with a focus on enhancing educational and training support services for primary care doctors and staff to use mifepristone for miscarriage management and abortion provision.
MILINGO LUNGU WANTS PANEL HEARING HIS CASE RECONSTITUTED
By GRACE CHAILE
STATE Counsel Sakwiba Sikota yesterday asked the Constitutional Court panel to reconstitute itself before hearing an application by former Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) provisional Liquidator ,Milingo Lungu, because Judge president Margaret Munalula and three other Judges were not fit to be part of the panel.
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KASANDA FIRED!
… as Cornelius Mweetwa is new Minister of Information with Thabo Kawana as PS
By NATION REPORTER
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has fired Minister of Information and Media Chushi Kasanda in a mini-reshuffle announced last evening by State House Chief Communication Specialist Clayson Hamasaka.
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Cost of living crisis set to cut UK lives short and significantly widen wealth-health gap
The proportion of people dying before their time (under the age of 75) is set to rise by nearly 6.5%—30 extra deaths/100,000 of the population annually—with those in the most deprived households experiencing a rate 4 times that of the least deprived.
Stem cell therapy can safely slow progression of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, finds study
Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, or aHSCT for short, is usually used to treat blood cancers, and involves harvesting stem cells from the person’s own bone marrow or blood followed by chemotherapy and antibody treatment.