Drivers charged after damaging eight tombstones in Ndola

POLICE have charged two drivers with dangerous driving after they crashed into eight tombstones at Kansenshi Cemetery in Ndola yesterday. Miniva Kakunta and Duella Abaas’s ‘grave mistake’ was preceded by an earlier collision their vehicles had on Kwacha road near Kabombo junction in the friendly city of Ndola Abaas, driving a Ford Ranger, misjudged the […]

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Interspecies mitochondrial research could improve organ transplantation viability

Thirty-six percent of all donated livers are currently discarded due to uncertainty about their quality and whether they will function as they should in the recipient. A perfusion machine makes sure that a donated liver maintains its viability outside the donor’s body for many hours and enables the quality of the liver to be checked before transplantation.

Driver in Dandy Krazy accident charged 

DRIVER of the the Shacman track that was involved in the road traffic accident that claimed the life of popular artist Dandy Krazy and four others has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving. On New Year’s eve, Hachalwa Lweendo’s truck hit into Dandy Krazy’s car and a second vehicle, claiming the lives of […]

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Want to live longer and save money? Online app can help calculate your benefits from cutting back on alcohol

Dry January is a time when many people think about taking a break from alcohol and giving their liver a rest. But what does that look like in terms of individual benefits? What if you knew how many minutes of life you could potentially regain by skipping that last drink, or how your weekly alcohol intake measures up compared to smoking cigarettes?

Surprising ‘two-faced’ cancer gene role supports paradigm shift in predicting disease

A genetic fault long believed to drive the development of esophageal cancer may in fact play a protective role early in the disease, according to new research published in Nature Cancer. This unexpected discovery could help doctors identify which individuals are at greater risk of developing cancer, potentially leading to more personalized and effective preventive strategies.

Social program cuts tuberculosis cases among Brazil’s poorest by more than half

Brazil’s Bolsa Família Program (BFP), one of the world’s largest conditional cash transfer programs, was responsible for the reduction of more than half the number of tuberculosis cases and deaths among those living in extreme poverty and Indigenous groups, shows a large study coordinated by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The findings, published in Nature Medicine, have strong implications for public policies on social protection and TB control worldwide.