After stem cell transplantation, the donated immune cells sometimes attack the patients’ bodies. This is known as graft versus host disease or GvHD. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Universitätsklinikum Regensburg (UKR) have shown that GvHD is much less common when certain microbes are present in the gut. In the future, it may be possible to deliberately bring about this protective composition of the microbiome.
U.S. health care workers were most likely to be infected with COVID-19 at work during the pandemic’s first year, according to a new study that challenges previous research suggesting their risk was highest off the job.
Child-care stress (CCS) during the pandemic is associated with anxiety, depression, burnout, intent to reduce hours, and intent to leave among health care workers (HCWs), according to a study published online July 18 in JAMA Network Open.
A salmonella outbreak that’s already sickened 24 people is triggering the recall of charcuterie meats sent to Sam’s Club distribution centers nationwide.
Maternal type 1 diabetes and overweight and obesity are associated with an increased risk for congenital heart defects (CHDs) among offspring, according to a study published online Jan. 5 in JAMA Network Open.
By SHARON ZULU and ANNITA NCUBE
MINISTRY of Local Government and Rural Development Permanent Secretary Maambo Hamaundu has cautioned Lusaka’s Chilenje residents against throwing garbage anyhow as this would attract punishment.
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As children grow and become more independent, it can be more challenging for parents to know what they are thinking and feeling. When do the normal ups and downs of adolescence become something to worry about?
By ROGERS KALERO
INDEPENDENT councillors in Kitwe are not puppets of any political party and will not sink so low as to allow themselves to be used to fight personal and political battles of those in the ruling UPND when it suits them, Ndeke ward councillor Davies Kasengele has said.
Mr Kasengele said independent councillors were not elected to serve the interests of the ruling party or fight its political battles, but to serve the interest of those who elected them through lobbying for development in their various wards and adhering to the council standing orders.
Mr Kasengele was reacting to a social media write up that independent councillors at the KCC have unfortunately become puppets of the Patriotic Front (PF) agenda, sacrificing their integrity and personal opinions to fulfil the agendas set by one individual.
He said the write up was allegedly authored by a named UPND councillor in Nkana constituency, after Independent councillors helped the PF councillors to form a quorum to install Kamfinsa Member of Parliament Christopher Kang’ombe as Alderman along with former deputy mayor Evaristo Chilufya.
Mr Kasengele said the UPND councillors, under the instruction of one senior government official on the Copperbelt, decided to walk out of the council meeting last week to protest against the installation of Mr Kang;’ombe as Alderman together with Mr Chilufya.
But despite the walkout by the UPND councillors, the PF and Independent councillors managed to form a quorum and installed the Kamfinsa law maker as Alderman together with Mr Chilufya, a development which angered the UPND councillors.
Mr Kasengele said Independent councillors were not part of the meeting where the UPND councillors were instructed by a senior government official to reject the installation of Mr Kang;’ombe as Alderman and were not obliged to carry out such retrogressive instructions.
The UPND Councillors walked out of the meeting because they were not happy with the debate which was discussing installing Mr Kang’ombe as Alder man.
Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute, Florida, have developed a new method to counteract α-synuclein protein levels by targeting the mRNA that forms them. The strategy unlocks many research doors with potential therapeutic approaches for addressing neurodegenerative diseases.
By LUCY PHIRI
UNITED Party for National Development deputy national youth chairperson in charge of politics and mobilisation, Trevor Mwiinde Sialunga has implored youths countrywide to join efforts by Government in halting the spread of cholera.
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