Jubilation in Parley as UPND MPs toast IMF deal

By NATION REPORTER

THERE was jubilation amongst the governing UPND legislators in Parliament yesterday when acting Leader of Government Business in the House Ambrose Lufuma said Zambia’s US$ 12.6 billion had been restructured.

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Women contractors hails Zambia Sugar

By MUKWIMA CHILALA

WOMEN contractors from Mazabuka have hailed Zambia Sugar PLC for transforming their lives and businesses over the years that they have been doing business with the Country’s largest Sugar producer

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Cervical cancer screening doubles when under-screened women are mailed at-home testing kits

Researchers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that mailing human papillomavirus (HPV) self-collection tests and offering assistance to book in-clinic screening appointments to under-screened, low-income women improved cervical cancer screening nearly two-fold compared to scheduling assistance alone. Scheduling assistance primarily consisted of helping to book an appointment for in-person screening at a clinic, regardless of whether an at-home test was offered or returned, or whether the HPV test was negative or positive.

Stress management interventions may help individual health care workers for at least a year

Interventions aimed at reducing work-related stress for individual health care workers may lead to improvements in how people cope with stress up to a year later. Findings from a Cochrane review of the latest available evidence build on the conclusions of a previous review in 2015 that found low-quality evidence that interventions such as cognitive behavioral training (CBT), and mental and physical relaxation, were better than none.

New guideline for treatment of acute dizziness and vertigo in the emergency department

The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) has released its third publication in a series of Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in the Emergency Department (GRACE-3), which focuses on acute dizziness and vertigo. The article, titled “Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in the Emergency Department (GRACE-3): Acute Dizziness and Vertigo in the Emergency Department,” is published in the May issue of the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.