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By MILLENNIUM REPORTER

THE Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) is saddened by recent media reports that two health personnel have been arrested for stealing medical supplies in Lusaka. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering a ban on certain hair-straightening chemicals that have been used by Black women for years and that research shows may increase the risk of uterine cancer.

Unusually high levels of blood congestion in vessels feeding the brain may lead to severe swelling, scientists have found in a discovery that solves a longstanding malaria mystery: how the infection deleteriously impacts the brain of children.

Research led by the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts, performed a secondary analysis of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 05-043 trial. In the paper, “Risk of Short-Term Prostate-Specific Antigen Recurrence and Failure in Patients With Prostate Cancer,” published in JAMA Network Open, the team searched for factors associated with shorter time intervals to prostate-specific antigen (PSA) failure in patients with nonmetastatic unfavorable-risk prostate cancer.

The EU said Thursday it had given the green light for US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s $43-billion acquisition of biotech firm Seagen, specializing in innovative cancer treatment.

While COVID-19 breakthrough infections—a SARS-CoV-2 infection that occurs after receiving COVID-19 vaccines—can occur, for healthy individuals with vaccine-induced immunity, these breakthrough infections do not often cause severe disease. There has been limited research to uncover why these breakthrough infections do not lead to severe infections, until now.

An outbreak of diphtheria in northeastern Guinea has killed 58 people, many of them young children, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement received Thursday.

Racial and educational inequities could be influencing factors in 89% of mother-to-child syphilis transmission across Brazil, according to new research published in The Lancet Global Health.

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that lactate-producing intratumoral bacteria drives resistance to radiation therapy, suggesting that lactic acid-producing bacteria present in various cancers may serve as novel therapeutic targets.

Scientists at Imperial College London are leading on the development and testing of the new method of stimulating the brain, which could provide an alternative treatment for brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s, and its associated memory loss.