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When an immunocompromised person’s system begins to recover and produce more white blood cells, it’s usually a good thing—unless they develop a potentially deadly inflammatory condition. New research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has found that the pulmonary distress often associated with the condition is caused not by damage to the lungs, but by newly populated T-cells infiltrating the brain.

By NATION REPORTER

THE Zambia Police has summoned Edith Nawakwi despite having been informed by her lawyers that she been indisposed and had just returned from India, where she had gone to seek medical attention.

The Zambia Police are looking Ms Nawakwi, the leader of the Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) and are determined to get her to answer to some unknown charges.

Despite having been informed that Ms Nawakwi was unwell, the police are demanding that the FDD leader should present herself before to their offices.

And in a statement by Dan Mwale, the Police deputy spokesperson confirmed that the Zambia police were looking for Ms Nawakwi whom he said had been summoned but had failed to present herself.

“I wish to confirm that Ms. Edith Nawakwi was summoned to report to the Police last week but her Lawyer requested to reschedule to today, August 29, 2023 at 14:30 hours. Today, Police received information that she was unwell and that the Lawyer has a bereavement,” Mr Mwale said.

Mr Mwale said the Zambia Police was surprised that Ms Nawakwi who had been reported to be sick was sending messages that Police were looking for her on social media platforms.

“We, therefore, advise that she reports herself to the Police,” Mr Mwale said.

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After a heart attack it might be worth it to already treat constrictions in blood vessels not involved in the heart attack right away during the first intervention to treat the heart attack. In a large international study, USZ cardiologists were able to show that this treatment strategy has advantages over a delayed procedure. The result is highly relevant to clinical practice.

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of racial disparities in mortality between Black and white people in the United States. New research from the University of Chicago Medicine suggests that parental incarceration may be contributing to these health gaps.

Newcastle University research has shown that human-following robots can support the mobility and well-being of older people.

The human immune system is adaptive, remembering past infections and training itself to guard against future similar infections. But what happens when people have compromised immune systems due to chronic conditions, aging, or medications that decrease immunity as a side effect? In such cases, people can get opportunistic infections, so called because the germs causing illness would have been eradicated by a fully healthy immune system.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified stem cells in the human thymus for the first time. These cells represent a potential new target to understand immune diseases and cancer and how to boost the immune system.

Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have made a ‘paradigm shifting’ discovery on the mechanisms required for learning and memory that could lead to new therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and potentially Down syndrome. The study was published in the journal Nature.

Nearly half of all patients with brain metastasis experience cognitive impairment. Until now, it was thought that this was due to the physical presence of the tumor pressing on neural tissue. But this “mass effect” hypothesis is flawed because there is often no relationship between the size of the tumor and its cognitive impact. Small tumors can cause significant changes, and large tumors can produce mild effects. Why is this?

A study of COVID-19 patients at a New Mexico hospital finds that the virus hit American Indian patients particularly hard—even though Native American patients had fewer other illnesses or conditions than non-native patients. Douglas Perkins and colleagues analyzed data on 475 patients with COVID-19 infections from the University of New Mexico Hospital. The sample was 30.7% Native American, 47% Hispanic, and 18.5% non-Hispanic White. The research is published in the journal PNAS Nexus.