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By LUCY PHIRI 

LUSAKA magistrate Trevor Kasanda has discharged Patriotic Front (PF) vice president Given Lubinda in a matter he is accused of failing to appear before the Committee or Assembly.

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has announced that Government is in the process of establishing a credit window to help boost maize production which will in turn help stabilise the price of mealie meal on the market. The Credit window is a mechanism that will have small holder farmers help accelerate the levels of maize production, thereby […]

By NATION REPORTER

GOVERNMENT is in the process of phasing out the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) so that it could concentrate on dealing with serious farmers only, Agriculture Minister Mtolo Phiri has announced.

…says those who voted for the UPND should not claim exclusive rights to opportunities over those who did not because they are all Zambians looking up to the new dawn administration

By NATION REPORTER 

GILBERT Liswaniso has advised UPND youths against claiming exclusive rights to opportunities being provided by the government because even those who did not vote for the ruling UPND are citizens and are looking up to the new dawn administration.

…admits the mention of Decotex Paints Limited in a circular to business and property owners in the Lusaka CBD has been misconstrued as an instruction for them to procure paints from the company

By NATION REPORTER

GARRY Nkombo has apologised that it was a terrible error of judgement on his part when he advised property and business owners in Lusaka’s Central Business District (CBD) to paint   their buildings using Decotex Paint which had offered a 20 percent discount on their paint.

THE Health Professions Council of Zambia (HPCZ) is saddened that various universities and colleges in the country have continued to enrol students without full Grade 12 certificates.

As with many toxins, exposure to the toxic metal cadmium during pregnancy can adversely impact fetal development. Now, researchers at the Rutgers School of Public Health think they’re beginning to understand how the metal inflicts its damage: by disrupting placental hormones that regulate pregnancy physiology.

A new multi-center study led by doctors at Boston Medical Center and Columbia University found that having a genetic variant in the prealbumin gene alone is not sufficient for diagnosis of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy in older Black patients. Published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers discovered that a blood test that measures the transthyretin or prealbumin protein might also be helpful in diagnosing transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy and could be used to trigger more definitive imaging testing.

When breast cancer is diagnosed in the earliest stages, the survival rate is nearly 100%. However, for tumors detected in later stages, that rate drops to around 25%.

Since Fall 2021, an increasing number of unexplained cases of severe acute hepatitis have been reported in children. Epidemiologic investigation is ongoing, and, to date, a cause of these outbreaks has not been identified. Because adenovirus infection has been detected in some (but not all) cases, it is being investigated as one of many potential causes of the hepatitis. What are the primary known causes of hepatitis?