By NATION REPORTER
THE Civil Servants Allied Workers Union of Zambia (CSAWUZ) says the union is not satisfied with the recent 15 percent increase in salaries for civil servants.
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A newly-developed heart failure device and medication combination is safe and effective to use, and will allow patients to receive treatment from the comfort of their own home.
Although past research has indicated that moderate alcohol consumption can lower one’s risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), more recent studies suggest that moderate levels of drinking may be hazardous to heart health. A new analysis led by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University now sheds new insight on this complex relationship between alcohol consumption and the progression of CVD.
Researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) recently decoded how human antibodies protect us from the malaria parasite, which kills more than 600,000 people worldwide annually. The CMCF facility at the Canadian Light Source at the University of Saskatchewan helped them identify the precise structures involved in identifying and fighting off the disease.
Social media isn’t exactly known for being a welcoming place to have a productive discussion or share your opinions. Even the most inoffensive posts can breed noxious comments sections. Take this seemingly harmful post on TikTok, in which a woman shares a step-by-step recipe for spatchcocking chicken.
By LUCY PHIRI
ZAMBIA’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Mazuba Monze says capacity to address cross border crime in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region has been greatly enhanced through the development of strategic tools such as the regional Transnational Organised Crime through the Support to Peace and Security in the SADC region (SPSS) programme.
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In people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the epigenetic regulator HDAC6 (histone deacetylase 6), which controls many biological processes, is significantly overexpressed in the brain.
Infants are not protected against the varicella-zoster virus, the virus that causes chickenpox, for several months before they are eligible for vaccination, a new study has found.
Jet lag is all in the mind. What exactly lags has more to do with the hypothalamus than the jet.
Chronic exposure to stress can lead to the development of depression-like disorders that manifest as a lack of motivation—even in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. As a result, the insects show less courtship behavior, are less interested in stopping to ingest sweet nutrients, and are less willing to climb a gap in the experimental setup.
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