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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, the University of Liverpool, the University of Cape Town and UKHSA have uncovered a link between an antiviral drug for COVID-19 infections called molnupiravir and a pattern of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The genetic code of a rare form of kidney cancer, called reninoma, has been studied for the first time. In a paper, published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Great Ormond Street Hospital and The Royal Free Hospital also revealed a new drug target that could serve as an alternative treatment if surgery is not recommended.

A team of critical care specialists and psychologists affiliated with institutions in the U.K. and Sweden has found that the video game Tetris can prevent intrusive memories in nurses who have cared for patients with COVID-19. Their study has been published in the journal Translational Psychiatry.

According to a new international study, cleft palate surgery at the age of 6 months provides better conditions for speech and language development compared to surgery at 12 months. The results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, among others.

Researchers from the University of Melbourne have been able to track childhood risk factors in developing obstructive sleep apnea later in life, in the first longitudinal study of its kind.

IT is the blatant and undisguised imperialist, expansionist and inhumane goal of Russia against Ukraine that is most worrying.

Analysis of data from more than 6,800 patients located across 16 countries has supported the need to increase the dose of the antimalarial drug, primaquine, in malaria endemic countries.

THE Wildlife and Environmental Conservation Society of Zambia (WECSZ), in collaboration with the World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), is set to launch a smart climate actions project in 25 schools located in Itezhi -Tezhi.

By GRACE CHAILE

DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Gilbert Phiri, has maintained that former KCM Provisional Liquidator, Milingo Lungu, illegally transferred over US$30 million to a law firm, Lungu Simwanza and Company accounts, when he was only entitled to an advance monthly remuneration of US$52,000.

as speculations mount that the government conducted controlled recruitment tailored to benefit selected people from preferred regions

By NATION REPORTER

GEORGE Mpombo has demanded that government should move and publish the names of the newly recruited officers in the security wings, including Zambia Army, Zambia Air Force (ZAF) and the intelligence to clear speculations that the entire recruitment exercise has been marred by secrecy, political interference and considerations.