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BY LUCY PHIRI

BRITISH High Commissioner Nicholas Woolley has observed that Zambia has continued to face alarming rates of undernutrition and that improving nutritional outcomes in the country has long been a priority for the United Kingdom government. 

The tick is a parasite that feeds on blood. The good news is that a tick feeds only three times in its lifetime.

Odds are, if you are reading this, you know something about breathing. You’re probably doing it right now.

Regulations are urgently needed to protect children from harm in the unregulated online world, researchers at the University of Otago, New Zealand, say.

Researchers and clinicians from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are part of the ongoing OCTAVE (Observational Cohort Trial-T-cells Antibodies and Vaccine Efficacy in SARS-CoV-2) trial, which is led by the Universities of Glasgow, Birmingham and Oxford and a consortium of leading UK institutions.

In a world-first clinical trial published in the journal Nature Medicine, a multi-center study from Lawson Health Research Institute, the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) has found fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) from healthy donors are safe and show promise in improving response to immunotherapy in patients with advanced melanoma.

P. falciparum infection rates in pregnant women attending their first antenatal care visit can be used to estimate the burden of malaria in children living in the community, according to a study led by the Barcelona Institute of Health (ISGlobal) and the Centre for Health Research in Manhica (CISM). The study, published in Nature Communications, confirms that pregnant women are an optimal population to monitor changes in infection prevalence and to adapt control measures.

The term “sundowning” is sometimes used to describe a tendency for people living with dementia to become more confused in the late afternoon and into the night.

The price of eggs is rising. So many of us may be looking for cheaper alternatives.

The cost of living crisis has left many people struggling to afford basic necessities such as food and heating for their homes. On the other hand, the top 10 richest men in the world doubled their wealth during the COVID pandemic while 99% of people became worse off.