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Microbubble technology could help surgeons target cancer better, reducing the need for bowel cancer patients to have life-changing operations, research led by a University of Strathclyde scientist has found.

A new University of Chicago study examining Medicare claims found older adults living near fracking sites in Pennsylvania were more likely to be hospitalized for cardiovascular diseases than those who lived in nearby New York state, where fracking is banned. The research was published in The Lancet Planetary Health.

The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) yesterday took over full control of operations at the Kasumbalesa Border Post.

The decision follows the expiry of the Concession Agreement between the Government and the Zambia Border Crossing Company (ZIPBCC) on Friday 3rd March, 2023.

Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) will now manage the Vehicle Traffic Management System at Kasumbalesa Border Facility, including other supporting infrastructure. The Government and ZIPBCC signed a Concession Agreement for Kasumbalesa Border Post on 1st July, 2009, to Design, Build, Operate and Transfer.The operations of the border facility by ZIPBCC commenced in March, 2011. – ZNBC

 PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has conferred with the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) to explore ways in which Government can partner with them so that Zambian students can receive education scholarships. President Hichilema said education is the best equaliser and it’s a key element in human development, hence the reason Government has prioritised the right to […]

An unwillingness among health care professionals to prescribe and dispense otherwise recommended medications is putting the health and lives of pregnant women at risk, finds a new study involving a UCL researcher.

In an analysis of more than 415,00 electronic health records of healthy, full-term births in Southern California, a team of researchers led by the University of California, Irvine, determined that exposure to green space and tree coverage was associated with a decreased risk of postpartum depression among mothers.

Wanting to better understand how the brain forms and stores long-term memory, an international team of scientists undertook a study of the brain’s circuits. Their work sheds new light on the way the circuits in the brain work, providing fresh insights into the brain’s long-term memory formation and storage.

Researchers have developed a novel combination therapy using an anticancer agent, mitoxantrone (MTX), together with an antibiotic, vancomycin, for treating bacteria that are resistant to the vancomycin, which is also known as vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis (VRE). The therapy uniquely targets both VRE and the host, stimulating the host immune system to more effectively clear bacterial infections and accelerate infected wound healing.

ZAMBIANS are up for grabs under the UPND administration because the government has clearly shown that they do not prioritize them over foreigners, Leadership Movement president Dr Richard Silumbe has said.

Dr Silumbe has expressed concern over the continued prioritizing of foreigners at the expense of Zambians by the UPND government which he said should not be the case because Zambians should always come first.

He was commenting on the construction of the Lusaka-Ndola Dual Carriageway which has been awarded to a foreign private contractor, Micro Ocean Investment Consortium under a 25 years concession.

Dr Silumbe said the UPND government’s decision to contract a foreign company that would have to borrow money from NAPSA, a state-owned parastatal a sign that Zambians were up for grabs by the imperialists subtly running the country.

Dr Silumbe wondered why the government had allowed the contractors to be collecting toll fees for as long as 25 years at the expense of many Zambians who would have to pay for such a deal.

“The Ndola-Lusaka Dual Carriageway deal is a sign that this government has chosen to be puppets of foreign countries and they do not care about the welfare of the Zambians who voted them. The UPND government has literally sold Zambians out and by the time the governing party is out of government, there shall be nothing left for Zambians,” Dr Silumbe said.

And Dr Silumbe has said the current happenings where the UPND government seems to care more about foreigners at the expense of Zambians is also an indication that they do not have the stamina to take care of Zambians.

He said there was need for the government to set their priorities straight and show the people that they come first at all times.

A Czech hospital said Tuesday its surgeons removed a mass of hair the size of a beer mug from the stomach of a girl who suffers from an extremely rare hair eating disorder.