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BY BENEDICT TEMBO

ATLAS Mara Bank acting chief executive officer Bobblin Cheembela hopes the merger with Access Bank Zambia can be completed this month-end.

The findings of the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) of its kind involving nearly 1,000 older adults from multiple locations across the U.S., published in The Lancet, add to the growing evidence that addressing hearing impairment may be a critically important global public health target for dementia prevention efforts.

Researchers have uncovered two new cholera substrains in a displaced refugee population in southern Bangladesh, where a pre-emptive mass vaccination campaign of over one million refugees was successful in preventing an epidemic. They also showed that the cholera bacterium initiating this campaign was the high risk pandemic strain that has caused outbreaks of cholera globally.

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has taken the bull by its horns in tackling the challenges associated with the introduction of the free education policy.

A team of medical researchers at Memorial University, in Canada, has found evidence showing that concentrations of the PGE2 molecule in the brain can lead to both weight loss and weight gain depending on the amount. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group tested the impact of changes in concentrations of the PGE2 molecule in the hypothalamus in rats and mice.

A 28-YEAR-OLD  Zambian who was stabbed by unknown people in South Africa has been discharged from the clinic and is recovering well. Kelvin Muchinga was stabbed by unknown people on his right hand and the waist on Thursday last week on his way home from work. This is contained in a statement issued by First […]

A scorpionfish protein could prove a powerful tool for treating multidrug-resistant bacterial infections in people with cystic fibrosis, according to a preliminary study published today in eLife.

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, have attempted to restore color vision to completely color-blind subjects using gene therapy. In their paper, “Seeing color following gene augmentation therapy in Achromatopsia,” published in Current Biology, the team details the approach’s success and limitations on achromatopsia patients lacking a functioning CNGA3 gene.

One day in 2013, as Christina DiBona Pastan, D91, DG94 was about to observe an endodontics postgraduate teaching resident perform a procedure, she noticed not all was well with the student.

Systemic autoimmune diseases are characterized by inflammation of multiple organs and can have devastating consequences for patients. There is a dire need for treatments against these diseases. RNase treatments seem promising in some clinical trials but not all. Researchers from Japan have uncovered the reasons for this variability.