By GRACE CHAILE
THE Attorney General has been taken to Court over the failure by the Ministry of Health to settle K2.8 million, being the remaining balance on the air tickets it purchased for its employees who were travelling on government business.
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Men who have been on parental leave have a significantly reduced risk of being hospitalized due to alcohol consumption. This is shown by a study published in Addiction from researchers at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University.
Experts have warned that “fat talk” by mothers can unwittingly create problems for their daughter’s body satisfaction and even cause future disordered eating.
By NATION REPORTER
HIEGHTENED demand for foreign exchange for procurement of agricultural inputs (fertilisers) and petroleum products has led to the scarcity of the United States Dollar on the Zambian market and hence the recent depreciation of the Kwacha.
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In spring 2023, Egon Bech Hansen received a much-awaited small, square package from the United States. The package contained nine plastic plates with 3,456 small wells.
Whether improperly closing a door or shanking a kick in soccer, our brains tell us when we’ve made a mistake because these sounds differ from what we expect to hear. While it’s long been established that our neurons spot these errors, it has been unclear whether there are brain cells that have only one job—to signal when a sound is unexpected or “off.”
It is generally believed that the adaptability of the adult brain mainly takes place in the cortex. However, a new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows that the thalamus, a relay station for incoming motor and sensory information, plays an unexpectedly important role in this process. “This could be an interesting starting point for various therapies,” says Christiaan Levelt.
THAT State House agrees on the need for President Hakainde Hichilema to have an “indaba” with the opposition political parties is a welcome statement.
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Dispensing of psychotropic medication increased among children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) from 2006 to 2019, according to a study published online Oct. 3 in JAMA Network Open.
Building on a new mathematical model that represents vaccine hesitancy as a belief that can influence whether parents vaccinate their children, Nicole Creanza, assistant professor of biological sciences, and postdoctoral scholar Kerri-Ann Anderson extended their work to include the effect of external factors that affect vaccine availability, such as vaccine mandates and vaccine inaccessibility.
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