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By ROGERS KALERO 

NKANA Water Supply and Sanitation Company Limited (NWSC) has so far replaced more than 1,000 prepaid meters which the water utility company  has lost through thefts and rampant vandalism” NWSC Director for Commercial services Maybin Mulenga has said.

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU

CHILANGA Cement Plc has announced its intentions to increase the cement price by an average of 10 percent, from October 13, 2023.

A new study, led by Professor Kyemyung Park and his research team in the Graduate School of Health Science and Technology and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST has shed light on the intricate mechanism behind the immune system’s ability to differentiate between self and non-self antigens. Their research, published in Trends in Immunology, presents a novel quantitative framework that could pave the way for predictive models in immune-related disease treatment response.

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma is the second most common type of skin cancer in the United States, impacting approximately 700,000 people each year. While medications exist to prevent the development of disease, they are associated with side effects, suggesting the need for new drugs that can be safely used to prevent it.

What type of brain tumor does this patient have? AI technology helps to determine this as early as during surgery, within 1.5 hours. This process would normally take a week. The new technology allows neurosurgeons to adjust their surgical strategies on the spot. Today, researchers from UMC Utrecht and researchers, pathologists and neurosurgeons from the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology and Amsterdam UMC have published a study on this topic in Nature.

Among people who report memory and thinking problems, some show no signs of a problem on standard tests, while others have subtle declines on their tests. A new study shows that people who have subtle problems with these tests may have an increased risk of developing mild cognitive impairment, which can be a precursor to dementia. The study is published in Neurology.

New guidance has been issued for clinicians on the determination of brain death, also known as death by neurologic criteria. A new consensus practice guideline, developed through a collaboration between the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Child Neurology Society (CNS), and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is published in the October 11, 2023, online issue of Neurology.

Antiviral drugs are generally considered to be a 20th century invention. But recent research has uncovered an unexpected facet to your immune system: It can synthesize its own antiviral molecules in response to viral infections.

Modifiable risk factors—including hypertension, obesity, diabetes, low HDL cholesterol and sleep disorders—confer a higher risk of dementia for people in some minority ethnic groups compared to White people, according to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Naaheed Mukadam of University College London, UK, and colleagues.

By NATION REPORTER
THE Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) says the 2024 national budget is not a pro -poor budget as it has not addressed some of the challenges facing the majority poor citizens.