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Every day, we are bombarded with messages about a world in crisis. Alongside the ongoing reminders of wars, economic recessions and social unrest is news about natural disasters and extreme weather—be that prolonged droughts, freak heat waves and wildfires or devastating floods and landslides.

Every year, around 2.4 million people in the UK get food poisoning—mostly from viral or bacterial contamination. Most people recover within a few days without treatment, but not all are that lucky.

Around the world, men are more likely to get TB and to die from it than women.

For Black women, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer, and as of 2019 it has surpassed lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in this population, according to the American Cancer Society. Additionally, studies have shown a high prevalence of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), an aggressive subtype of breast cancer among younger Black women and those of African descent.

By LUCY PHIRI

PATRIOTIC Front (PF) presidential hopeful, Emmanuel Mwamba has been taken to court for allegedly assaulting a police officer at a car wash in Lusaka’s Woodlands area.

Patients with multiple myeloma (a blood cancer of plasma cells in the bone marrow) who also have diabetes have a reduced overall survival when compared to those without diabetes. But in a subgroup analysis, this difference in survival due to diabetes was seen in white patients but not in Black patients, according to a study published today in Blood Advances.

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, and the Hospital for Special Surgery Research Institute have uncovered new details about how the immune system prevents the production of antibodies that can recognize and damage the body’s own, healthy tissues.

By NATION REPORTER

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema would hesitantly agree that bringing back Vedanta to run the Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) is one of the most difficult decisions his UPND government has had to make, Patriotic Front (PF) Chairman for Mobilisation Bowman Lusambo has observed.

A molecular signature that predicts aggressive thyroid cancer could help guide treatment approaches for patients, according to a study published in the journal Cell Genomics.

In a new research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a professor and an undergraduate student from The University of Texas at Arlington found that the use of unclaimed bodies in Texas medical schools is on the rise.