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A welfare-to-work reform has increased employment rates for lone mothers but at a cost to her and her children’s mental health, new research shows.

By NATION REPORTER

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti has been dragged to court by her relatives to have her administratorship of her late father’s estate revoked.

According to a writ of summons gotten by one of her relatives Kashumba Kashumba, Ms Mutti is expected to appear in court on March 27.

The summons contended that Ms Mutti was not doing her work properly as an administrator hence the move to have her removed.

“P1 alleges that you are not doing your work as an administrator,” the summons says.

The family sued Ms Mutti in the Mongu Local Court seeking her revocation as administrator of her late father’s estate.

In 2021, Ms Mutti’s father, Mr Gorebrown Kashumba, a prominent Mongu businessman died and as first-born child, the family appointed Ms Mutti as Administrator of her father’s Estate.

Geneticists have written new chapters in the reconstruction of pre-colonial Americas history after using DNA from the indigenous Ashaninka people from Amazonian Peru. They have discovered previously unexpected levels of genetic variation in this group and uncovered a strong hint that these people were involved in a South-to-North migration that led to the transition from an archaic to ceramic culture in the Caribbean islands.

Researchers at the University of Tübingen have developed a new method to better study atherosclerosis in mice. The non-invasive imaging method helps to better understand and treat narrowing of blood vessels, a cause of heart attacks and strokes. The new approach may also significantly reduce the number of animals used in experiments compared to previous methods. The results were published in the journal Circulation Research.

The benefits of meditation have long been touted: relief from stress and anxiety, and an increased ability to focus.

A new method to cure HIV—by transplanting HIV-resistant stem cells from umbilical cord blood—has yielded long-term successful results, say scientists. The approach was successfully used to treat the “New York patient,” a middle-aged woman with leukemia and HIV who self-identifies as mixed race, who has been without HIV since 2017. Using stem cells from cord blood rather than from compatible adult donors, as has been done previously, increases the potential to cure HIV via stem cell transplantation in people of all racial backgrounds.

Cancer patients said the COVID-19 pandemic heightened infection concerns, increased feelings of fear, and disrupted their care, according to a research questionnaire.

Preterm infants do not get used to repeated pain in the way that full-term infants, children and adults do habituate to pain, finds a study led by UCL (University College London) researchers.

Intracerebral hemorrhage, and bleeding into the brain tissue, is a devastating neurological condition affecting millions of people annually. It has a high mortality rate, while survivors are affected by long-term neurological deficits. No medication has been found to support brain recovery following hemorrhage.

B lymphocytes—also known simply as B cells—play a central role in the immune system. If pathogens enter the body, B cells are activated and develop into plasma cells, which then release antibodies. One important step in this process is the germinal center reaction. If the B cells’ maturation into plasma cells is disrupted, multiple myeloma can develop—one of the most common blood cancers. This disease has a variety of subtypes and is not yet curable.