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Hearing the sound of a newborn’s wail can trigger the release of oxytocin, a brain chemical that controls breast-milk release in mothers, a new study in rodents shows. Researchers found that once prompted, this flood of hormones continues for roughly five minutes before tapering off, enabling mothers to feed their young until they are sated or begin crying again.

Gentrification can have a ripple effect on communities. While it can improve certain conditions in typically low-income areas, rising housing costs can displace residents, causing social disruption and other downstream effects.

GOVERNMENT has announced an outbreak of the African Swine Fever which has so far claimed 13 swine in Chaminuka area of Chongwe.

Colon cancers that spread to the liver may be substantially different depending on the location where cancerous cells originate, according to new research. The study led by Yale Cancer Center researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health provides insight into the unique biology of right-sided and left-sided tumors, which may impact treatment options and patient outcomes.

Hope is on the horizon for sick children requiring intravenous canulation to administer medication. A Griffith University–led randomized controlled trial has provided evidence about the most effective type of catheter to use.

Scientists have found that the outer cortex of the mammalian brain is able to maintain control over all the external inputs it receives because of how its nerve networks are organized into interconnected but independently functioning “modules.”

For several years, scientists have known that Parkinson’s disease is related to misfolding of the protein alpha-synuclein. Deposited aggregates of a protein called alpha-synuclein (α-syn) can damage and kill nerve cells, leading to neurological dysfunction. It has been known that lipid layers on cell surfaces can accelerate the misfolding process; however, the microscopic mechanisms involved have been a mystery.

By LUCY PHIRI 

FORMER Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Finance under budget and economic affairs division Pamela Chibonga has told the Lusaka magistrate court that she does not know anything about the alleged payment of US$200,000 in a matter former Ministry of Defence Permanent Secretary Stardy Mwale is charged with corrupt practices involving K8.5milion.

Hospital chiefs on Wednesday warned of the danger to patient safety by the latest doctors strike, the first time consultants and junior doctors in England have walked out at the same time.

By NATION REPORTER

THE political and economic situation in Zambia has become perilously dire that there is urgent need for the opposition to form one strong pact that could remove the UPND from government in 2026, National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader Saboi Imboela has said.