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New research published by neurology researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in npj Parkinson’s Disease found that preventable risk factors play a significant role in a person’s potential of developing Parkinson’s disease.

WE are glad that the family of the late Tutwa Ngulube have set a new date, December 23, on which to hold a memorial service which had to be cancelled abruptly last Saturday.

U.S. hospitals charge facility fees for colonoscopy procedures covered by private health insurance that are on average approximately 55% higher than facility fees billed by smaller clinics known as ambulatory surgical centers, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

A paper published in JAMA Network Open addresses bias in health care algorithms and provides the health care community with guiding principles to avoid repeating errors that have tainted the use of algorithms in other sectors.

And now, New Congress Party president, Peter Chanda, has challenged the Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo to tell the nation the truth about the true statistics and magnitude of the cholera situation in the country which has so far claimed 52 lives with Lusaka Province having been the worst hit with 36 lives lost in the last one month.

The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine against tuberculosis can elicit a good response in neonates. Infants who are exposed to HIV but are uninfected display an altered immunity to vaccination.

…Munir Zulu, the APNAC secretary general says Miles has issued a letter to congratulate ACC for prosecuting Kampyongo without consulting the membership, discloses Sampa comes to Parliament under the guard of heavily-armed State police  

By NATION REPORTER

EXPELLED Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa is facing the risk of being ejected from the African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption (APNAC) for issuing a statement on behalf of the secretariat congratulating the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for prosecuting former Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo.

By GRACE CHAILE

FORMER President Edgar Lungu has asked for leave of the High Court to file a petition against alleged harassment by the State.

For individuals with steatotic liver disease (SLD) at low risk for advanced fibrosis, there is a nonlinear association between alcohol consumption and mortality, with increased risk at or above consumption of 7.4g/day, according to a research letter published online Dec. 14 in JAMA Network Open.

Suicide deaths in the civilian non-institutionalized working population are 32.0 and 8.0 per 100,000 among men and women, respectively, according to research published in the Dec. 15 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.