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as he vows that vendors will not have it easy as long as he would remain Minister in-charge of Local Governent

By NATION REPORTER 

GARRY Nkombo says he is ready to bit the bullet for the benefit of the Zambians and society by sacrificing all it shall take bring sanity and order to the streets by curbing illegal vending in the country.

COPPER Queens players have received a new set of boots after it was thought that the ones they used against Japan played a part in the team’s mauling at the FIFA World Cup on Saturday. Following the humiliation at the hands of tactically disciplined Japan, Zambians started looking for excuses to what could have led […]

THE Director of Public Prosecution DPP Gilbert Phiri is deeply concerned that criminals are often ahead of law enforcement agencies, using sophisticated schemes since the advent of technological advancement.

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which affects an estimated 6.5 million adults in the United States, hits some groups harder than others. Compared to non-Hispanic whites, Hispanic Americans are 1.5 times as likely to develop AD, and African Americans are twice as likely.

Cancer patients saw a significant fall in COVID-related hospitalizations and mortality following the rollout of vaccines, shows the first panoramic study of its kind.

…Andrew Chintala, the MAZ president says mealie meale prices are a result of the high cost of maize on the open market  

By NATION REPORTER

MEALIE Meal prices are being driven by the escalating cost of maize prices on the open market and not by the appetite of profit maximisation or greed, the Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) has said.

A new paper in Biology Methods & Protocols, published by Oxford University Press, shows it may be possible to design vaccines that will induce a stronger immune response to infecting pathogens, such as the virus causing COVID-19. In this study, the authors proposed and tested a new bioinformatic approach and tool that allows researchers to select parts of proteins that will elicit a strong immune response. Vaccines developed based on this approach would provide better protection from diseases.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) used electronic health record (EHR) data from more than 200,000 pediatric patients to describe patterns of pediatric allergies across the United States, validating a population-level pattern of allergy development known as the “allergic march,” in which allergies first present as eczema, followed by food allergies, asthma, and environmental allergies.

At first glance, Canada appears to have responded adequately to the COVID-19 emergency, but beneath the surface lie major pandemic failures, warns a series of articles published by The BMJ today.

Self-reported data from lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) patients shows these groups have poorer health outcomes compared to those who identify as heterosexual, but bisexual people disproportionally experience the worst outcomes in England.