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It’s no secret that our lungs play a vital role in our daily lives—ensuring we can breathe, fend off infections, and adapt to various challenges. Despite their importance, the organs still puzzle many medical experts, especially when they’re affected by diseases. While traditional tools like MRI and CT scans are helpful when a patient is experiencing a lung-related illness, they can still fall short in providing the detailed, real-time information needed to understand the intricacies of lung health.

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU

A CURRENT boom in the construction industry has resulted into an increased uptake of fire insurance in Zambia, overtaking motor insurance which has mostly been undertaken by consumers.

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the University Medical Center Mannheim (UMM) have successfully tested a new form of cellular immunotherapy against brain tumors in mice for the first time.

In four new articles in the Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, leading nutrition experts describe and evaluate the latest versions of the Healthy Eating Index (HEI), issued to correspond to the 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). For the first time, there are two new HEIs, one for children and adults 2 years and older, and one for young children aged 12 through 23 months.

When our kidneys are acutely damaged, it can cause necrotic injury, which is the death of cells in the kidney. A new study from Aarhus University has now found that the cell damage spreads over several days after the immediate injury, affecting a larger area of the kidneys.

The complex relationship between physical activity and energy balance—food intake versus energy expenditure—is still a challenge for science, especially in light of the rising worldwide prevalence of overweight and obesity. Some of the medications available on the market to combat obesity work analogously to hormones associated with appetite control, and for some time researchers have focused on understanding how processes involving metabolites (products of cell metabolism) affect hunger and satiety.

A new research paper titled “Availability of living donor optimizes timing of liver transplant in high-risk waitlisted cirrhosis patients” has been published inAging.

By NATION REPORTER

THE Southern African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) says Government should not waste more time in presenting the Public Order Act and the Access to Information bills among other approved bills to enact them into law.

By ROGERS KALERO

A DELEGATION from Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) and the Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) has arrived in Egypt to commence the pre-inspection process of medicines and medical supplies to be procured from the Unified Procurement Authority (UPA) of Egypt.

RUDN University doctors studied what happens to oxidative and antioxidant processes in the heart during diabetes and hypertension. The work provides insight into the relationship between these processes at the molecular level and outlines possible therapeutic targets. The results were published in Pathophysiology.