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If you’re pregnant or planning to have a baby soon, you’ve probably been given lots of advice and information about what you might experience during and after the birth. But less information is often given about what to expect if you should need or choose to have a cesarean section.

Plunging into the ocean or a lake is one of the great joys of summer. But arriving at the beach to find water that’s green, red or brown, and possibly foul-smelling, can instantly spoil the party.

By MILLENNIUM REPORTER

CHILUBI Member of Parliament Mulenga Fube has termed as selective the application of the rule of law in which there has been supersonic speed in clearing corruption allegations involving Cabinet Ministers as compared to those of the opposition.

Mr Fube’s comment comes in the wake of the recent pronouncement by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) that it had cleared two Cabinet Ministers, Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane, Finance Minister and his Infrastructure counterpart Charles Milupi.

This was after Lumezi Member of Parliament Munir Zulu alleged that the two ministers had received bribes from one of the construction companies as gratification to award the construction of the Ndola -Lusaka Dual Carriageway.

But Mr Fube has said the speed at which the two ministers had been cleared was confirmation that there were two sets of laws in Zambia, one for the opposition and another for the ruling elite.

He said the fact that President Hakainde Hichilema had cleared his ministers before the ACC could conduct its investigations could have instilled fear in some of the officers handling the case due the Statutory Instrument 18 which has placed the Commission under the Office the President.

And the Tom Shamakamb, the ACC director general has criticized people alleging that the Commission had failed to perform on the pretext that the commission was under State House instructions.

Speaking in an interview, Mr Shamakamba said even under previous regimes, the ACC was by statute under State House, adding that this could not come now because the commission had operated independently even if it was under the Office of the Preasident.

Mr Shamakamba said despite the Commission working under State House, the ACC had always operated independently and without any interference.

He said no head of State had issued instructions to interfere with the Commission’s investigations or operations but that they always encourage the ACC to be fair and just in its operations. Mr Shamakamba said that the Commission had made sure that all suspects, whether aligned to the ruling UPND or the opposition political party were investigated without any third-party interference.

He said those alleging that the ACC had failed its duty did not mean well in the fight against corruption as the commission was non-selective and would endeavour to serve its mandated duty of fighting and eliminating corruption.

A vagus nerve stimulation device, approved by the Food and Drug Administration, is being used in rehabilitation to help patients recovering from an ischemic stroke. If a patient is having trouble using their hand or arm after a stroke, this stimulation device helps create new pathways in the brain as the person performs exercises. This can help the person regain function faster than rehabilitation alone.

By studying the effects of DNA variants between people, researchers can gain insights into the genetics of diseases. It allows them to tailor medical treatment to a person’s genetic makeup.

An international collaboration steered by David Cortez, Richard N. Armstrong, Ph.D. Chair for Innovation in Biochemistry, explored how cells tolerate DNA damage and genome instability—and they arrived at conclusions that will redirect research into DNA replication as a target for cancer and disease therapeutics.

The intestinal microbiota is the set of bacteria and viruses that live inside your gut. Microbiota perform a variety of functions, including digesting food and protecting against specific pathogens.

An international team of scientists who spent five years studying the feces of 647 Danish babies found something astonishing. The nappy samples contained 10,000 species of virus—ten times the number of bacterial species in the same children. Most of the viruses had never been described before.

Although smoking rates have decreased in the U.S., more than 30 million people continue to smoke, resulting in nearly half a million deaths each year.

An international team of researchers led by the Netherlands Cancer Institute developed a method to better predict the outgrowth of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a possible precursor of breast cancer, into invasive breast cancer. Using mice into which cells from women with DCIS were inserted, researchers can better identify which DCIS patients are at risk for breast cancer.