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With schools due to reopen soon, many of us will also be returning to work after the summer holidays. For those suffering from health issues especially, the past weeks will have provided a well-needed break from the daily grind, or what the French would colorfully refer to métro-boulot-dodo (metro-work-sleep).

Researchers from the University of Surrey, University of Birmingham, and Keele University gathered evidence and data over the course of two years, as part of a study which has informed a robust set of new evidence-based postvention guidance to support NHS staff after the death by a suicide of a colleague.

About 1–3% of women who give birth in Canada experience serious complications during childbirth such as severe hemorrhage or severe preeclampsia. After surviving these complications (collectively termed “severe maternal morbidity”), many of these women may wish to conceive again in the future but would want to understand the risk associated with a new pregnancy and delivery.

Bacteria that live in the intestines inhibit a molecule that limits the amount of fat absorbed, increasing weight gain in mice fed a high-sugar, high-fat diet, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center report. The findings, published in Science, could eventually lead to new ways to combat obesity, diabetes, and malnutrition—health problems that plague hundreds of millions worldwide.

Scientists have established the effectiveness of vaccines they developed to prevent the disfiguring skin disease leishmaniasis in animal studies, and Phase 1 human trial planning is in motion for the most promising candidate.

By GIDEON NYENDWA 

ZAMBIA has potential to look at other innovative ways through which solid waste management can addressed in the communities by looking at solid waste as a resource and not something for outright disposal.

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Garry Nkombo in a speech read for him by Permanent Secretary Nicolas Phiri during the Climate Smart Solid Waste Management breakfast meeting, said the innovative ways requires the promotion of recycling and re-use activities. 

Mr Nkombo also said government was committed to support the recycling industry as it contributes to job creation and protecting the environment.

He said said the commend companies and stakeholders that have invested in water recycling as their efforts were contributing to raising value of solid waste.

Mr Nkombo said there was need to support the various business enterprises that have ventured into the recycling industry for their role in reducing waste in the environment and creating job opportunities.

He urged stakeholders in the recycling industry to recommend workable ideas that were aimed at supporting the growth of the solid waste recycling industry.

“We urged players in the industry to not just end at producing different products but to also participate in the value chain, we need to invest in awareness creation, the industry works well if waste is segregated at the point of packaging waste,” he said.

And USAID Mission Director Peter Wiebler said Lusaka district through the Lusaka Integrated Solid Waste Management Company was well positioned to demonstrate how the government at all levels could partner with the private sector to develop a sustainable waste management system.

He said locally-led solutions with government, the private sector and civil society organizations working in tandem was the best path towards residing the carbon footprint and promoting a sustainable green economy in Zambia.

Meanwhile Lusaka Integrated Solid Waste Management Company Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Imwana  Mwanawalye said the meeting has been organized to raise awareness on solid waste management that has affected communities in Lusaka district.

He said amidst the challenge, there was an opportunity that exist which was looking at solid waste as a resource

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…claims there is no Cabinet Minister, including the Vice President courageous enough to challenge or resist President Hichilema’s style of governance

By NATION REPORTER 

BREBNAR Changala is claiming that President Hakainde Hichilema is running a cabinet that is dead and moribund needing urgent reshuffles before the vigour to government is drained completely and render the country undisciplined.

Mr Changala, a civil rights and political activist is deeply concerned that President Hichilema seemed to be comfortable to be presiding over a cabinet that does not give him resistance to style of governing the country exclusively from his ministers.

He said the biggest challenge the UPND government was facing was failure to consult and bring on board different people with shared views which was taking them nowhere.

Featuring on Prime TV on Monday, Mr Changala said most of the people in Mr Hichilema’s government were new with some of them becoming civil servants for the first time in their lives but given tasks to run ministries that they did not even understand.

He said it was unfortunate even technocrats who were supposed to be helping the ministers to run the ministries were being moved to Cabinet Office and put on holding positions.

“What kind of government are we running? If you ask an ordinary Zambian to name five Cabinet minister in the UPND government, they are failing because the Ministers are just not there?  If you look at what is happens in Parliament…and I just have to say this, the Vice President looks lost whenever she’s asked challenging questions in the House. Things are not adding up,” Mr Changala said.

He said it was difficult to reason with the UPND government because of the “know it all attitude” which was leading them to destruction.

He said for the first time in Zambia, it was easier for a foreigner to access State House than an indigenous Zambian under the UPND.

Mr Changala said the fight against corruption was targeted where only local people who were getting arrested for having property that was suspected to be proceeds of crime while foreigners were owning mansions and a lot of properties around the country.

He said there were Zambians whose bank accounts had been frozen for two years on suspicion that the money was corruptly acquired while foreigners were cashing in big moneys and building shopping malls around the country with no one questioning them.

Mr Changala said the UPND government had not paid suppliers on account that they were auditing them only to get back at their perceived enemies.

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Insomnia is a prevalent issue that increases the risk of various health complications and affects approximately 10% of Japanese adults. While socioeconomic factors, lifestyle factors, and work stress all contribute to insomnia, childhood experiences have received considerable attention in recent years.

Mayo Clinic scientists are shining light on ovarian cancer. A study published in 2022 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology explored the use of fluorescence-guided surgery to treat epithelial ovarian cancer, the most common type of ovarian cancer.

Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), brain injury caused by oxygen deprivation around birth, is a common cause of admission to the neonatal intensive care unit. Therapeutic hypothermia is now becoming the standard treatment to minimize brain injury; cooling the newborn’s head or whole body for three days slows cellular metabolism and allows brain cells to avoid and recover from injury.