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In the intricate dance of our body’s defenses against harmful invaders, certain immune system proteins play pivotal roles. New research from the Bridge Institute at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, in collaboration with international teams from India, Australia and Switzerland, has shed light on these proteins.

A new study by QIMR Berghofer published in the Medical Journal of Australia has highlighted the critical need for doctors to be more vigilant with early detection and monitoring of liver complications in patients with diabetes and obesity.

More than 6 million people worldwide have been trained in Mental Health First Aid.

By LUCY PHIRI

LUMEZI independent Member of Parliament Munir Zulu has asked the court for more time to find fugitive former President Edgar Lungu’s political advisor Kaizer Zulu who is still at large absconding court proceedings.

A team of neuroscientists and physiologists at the University of Cambridge, working with a pair of colleagues from the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, has found that MRI scans can reveal the parts of the brain that are involved in responding to fatty foods. In their paper published in The Journal of Neuroscience, the group describes how they tested milkshakes with different amounts of fat, then asked volunteers to taste them while undergoing brain scans, and what they found by doing so.

Alzheimer’s disease disproportionately affects women, who represent about two-thirds of those diagnosed with the late-onset type of the disease.

Early results from PharmaKure, a pharmaceutical company spun out from The University of Manchester, shows a novel whole blood test developed by the company is able to quantify Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers.

Mosquito-transmitted virus infections are on the rise and their spread is accelerating in Texas, Florida and elsewhere in the American South. With the rise of mosquito-borne illnesses, infectious disease experts at Baylor College of Medicine and Stanford School of Medicine are warning of the possible re-emergence of yellow fever in the southern portion of the U.S.

Prostate cancer’s resistance to treatment can be reversed in some patients by stopping hijacked white blood cells from being ‘pulled into’ tumors, according to new research published in Nature.

Are 3D mammograms better than standard 2D imaging for catching advanced cancers?