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Many tiny organisms including bacteria, fungi and viruses normally live on our bodies, and even inside us. These are called the microbiome. The large number of these organisms living in the gastrointestinal tract are collectively known as the gut microbiome.

Nurse practitioners are just as good as primary care doctors at avoiding potentially harmful prescriptions for older patients—but both need to do better, a large, new study suggests.

By MWANSA PINTU

GOVERNMENT, through the Department of National Registration, Passports and Citizenship (DNRPC), has opened enrollment people into the Integrated National Registration Information System (INRIS).

By Nation Reporter

THE Zambia National Service (ZNS) has now ventured into mining, Vice-President Mutale Nalumango has announced.

Research on the trillions of microorganisms that make up a person’s microbiome can lead to medical breakthroughs to treat diseases like inflammatory bowel syndrome and diabetes. According to Alyssa Bader, a Tsimshian Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University, microbiome samples from Indigenous communities have the potential to further Western medicine, but those same communities often have been excluded from the research process and may miss out on the benefits that result from their contributions to science. There is also a history of this research exploiting and harming Indigenous peoples.

THE new dawn administration must stop deceiving itself that all is well in the country just because people are not rioting.

By NATION REPORTER

THE Lusaka City Council (LCC) has declared its readiness for the upcoming 2023/2024 rainy season through its Public Health Department.

By NATION REPORTER

FIRST Quantum Minerals (FQM) has maintained its trend of increasing production in the third quarter of 2023, propelled by the mining firm’s execution of new agreements with the Zambian government last year.

By Nation Reporter

Parliament on Thursday heard that the UPND government is deepening its dictatorship and that the country is on the verge of collapsing because the new dawn administration has embarked on a trajectory of breaking down the rule of law with impunity.

By NATION REPORTER

THE fuel supply chain for the country has not been mismanaged but has completely broken down and the negative impact of the UPND government policies has been felt by citizens, Kamfinsa Member of Parliament Christopher Kang’ombe has said.