Combination immunotherapy with the anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody durvalumab and other novel agents outperforms durvalumab alone in the neoadjuvant (pre-surgical) setting for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Researchers pinpoint molecular signature of post-stroke depression
Earlier in 2023, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman checked himself into a hospital for clinical depression after suffering a near-fatal stroke. Fetterman’s case of post-stroke depression may be one of the most newsworthy, but it is far from rare: Around a third of all survivors develop depression.
Fake soldier nabbed for Personation
A 49-YEAR-OLD man of Lusaka has been arrested for allegedly personating a public officer. Clement Kanyembo presented himself as a soldier by producing a Zambia Army identity card and solicited for money amounting to K15, 000 from Agnes Phiri aged 25 of Kalingalinga under the pretext that he will get her a job in the […]
Neural model shows evolution wired human brains to act like supercomputers
Scientists have confirmed that human brains are naturally wired to perform advanced calculations, much like a high-powered computer, to make sense of the world through a process known as Bayesian inference.
Dismissals, resignations rock Socialist Party
…with almost the entire Ndola district executive terminating their membership with the Fred M’membe led political organisation
By NATION REPORTER
THE Socialist Party is in turmoil and crumbling with the resignations of lower organs leadership and the unfair dismissals of members by the top leadership without giving them an opportunity to be heard.
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Government saddened by the death of four people in Ibex Hill area yesterday
MINISTER of Information and Media Chushi Kasanda says Government is grieved at the death of four people among them three school going children after they were hit by a motor vehicle in Lusaka’s Ibex Hill area yesterday. Ms Kasanda who is also Chief Government spokesperson said Government is further disheartened that the country has in […]
How an archaeological approach can help leverage biased data in AI to improve medicine
The classic computer science adage “garbage in, garbage out” lacks nuance when it comes to understanding biased medical data, argue computer science and bioethics professors from MIT, Johns Hopkins University, and the Alan Turing Institute in a new opinion piece published in a recent edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
ZANACO’s depositor wins Jaguar I-PACE electric car
By GIDEON NYENDWA
ZANACO Chief Executive Office, Mukwandi Chibesakunda says Zanaco believes in corporate environmental responsibility as she handed over an electrical vehicle Jaguar I-PACE model to the winner of the grand prize in the Deposit Save and Win campaign.
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Chilanga Cement donates mobile clinic to hospice
By GIDEON NYENDWA
CHILANGA Cement Plc has donated a fully equipped mobile clinic to Mother of Mercy Hospice a community-based health institution dedicated to providing offering palliative care services to the most vulnerable in people in community in Chilanga.
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Businessman and Tanzanian killed by irate mob in Mumbwa district, police say
POLICE in Mumbwa yesterday were forced to fight running battles with irate members of the public following information that another person had been killed and their private parts removed. Two people who were being accused of being behind the death of the named person were in the process burnt to death by the irate mob. […]