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COULD the death of a woman at the hands of a quack performing an illegal operation be the result of the country’s collapsed health delivery system?

…tells them off that government will not employ them because according to her, they are unruly sponsored cadres

By NATION REPORTER 

SYLVIA Masebo yesterday declared that the Ministry of Health shall not employ the unemployed health workers who yesterday demonstrated against Government’s silence on the next recruitment exercise.

By GRACE CHAILE

ZAMBIA Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has told the Lusaka High Court that it has suspended the exercise involving the collection, processing and retention of live facial photographs as a precondition to registration by mobile network providers.

Scientific excellence requires diversity—research conducted by men and women, by people from different backgrounds and with varied worldviews. The need for diversity extends to scientific experiments themselves, but even today the vast majority of studies in the life sciences are done on male mice only, which could harm the findings, as well as our ability to extrapolate from them to humans.

Psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, shows promise for the transitional treatment of episodic migraines in early clinical trials, according to a review from Yale School of Medicine’s Emmanuelle Schindler, M.D., Ph.D.

A 47-YEAR-OLD women of Lusaka and her 20-year-old son has been arrested in connection with the death of her 51-year-old husband of Chelstone after he came back home late from a business venture. The woman in question, Mwila Kasase, ganged up with her two sons, Madiba Zulu, the 20-year-old has been arrested, and another 18-year-old, […]

A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign sheds light on the impact of doctors’ recommendations on healthy behaviors among individuals with hypertension in Brazil. The study, based on data from Brazil’s 2019 National Health Survey, investigated the biological, social, and health factors related to doctor’s recommendations and their associations with healthy behaviors.

Maybe you remember being screened for scoliosis in school. Or your own child has been treated to straighten a curving spine. But scoliosis is not restricted to children and adolescents; adults can develop scoliosis too.

IIASA researchers and experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) have conducted a systematic review of health and well-being–related indicators, as well as citizen science initiatives, to explore the potential of citizen science for mobilizing action toward the achievement of health and well-being–related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the WHO’s Triple Billion Targets.

Itching, stinging, and swelling really take the fun out of being outdoors and opening windows in the summer. Most bug bites (usually from mosquitoes) stop itching after a day or two. Others can leave you or your child with bacterial infections, parasites, or viruses.