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By NATION REPORTER

CHINESE investors have indicated that they are ready to set up electric vehicle battery factories in Zambia from our cobalt, Minister of Infrastructure Charles Milupi has indicated.

Mr Milupi said during the third China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo (CAETE), in Changsha City of Hunan Province in China, he invited potential investors to consider investing in Zambia’s emerging electric car batteries sector.

“In our key note address to the Forum, we reiterated that to support green development, the new dawn administration was investing in clean energy technologies. We hastened to mention that Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have partnered to establish special economic zones for manufacturing of batteries for the electric vehicle value-chain,” he said.

Mr Milupi said they observed that Zambia and the DRC produced more than 70 percent of global Cobalt, of which more than 95% was exported in raw form, depriving the two countries of the much-needed place in the electric vehicle value-chain.

“We therefore invited potential investors to come over to Zambia and take advantage of this opportunity by investing in the production of electric vehicle batteries and other related accessories locally,” he said.

There’s growing awareness public dental programs are unable to meet the demand for services. Private dental care is increasingly unaffordable, and millions of Australians go without the treatment they need.

Recurrent cystitis (RC) is a frequent infection of the urinary tract and bladder, which is highly prevalent among postmenopausal women. Under healthy circumstances, the human vagina is home to a host of beneficial intestinal bacteria, such as Lactobacilli. However, in the case of urinary tract infections (UTIs), there is a decrease in the abundance of Lactobacilli and an increase in pathogenic bacteria, such as Escherichia coli (E. coli).

Drug overdose deaths involving a powerful horse tranquilizer called xylazine have skyrocketed in the United States, rising 35-fold in just a handful of years, federal health researchers say.

Regular physical exercise, such as resistance training, can prevent Alzheimer’s disease, or at least delay the appearance of symptoms, and serves as a simple and affordable therapy for Alzheimer’s patients. This is the conclusion of an article published in Frontiers in Neuroscience by Brazilian researchers affiliated with the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) and the University of São Paulo (USP).

The barriers to accessing voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Victoria cause considerable distress for patients, according to new research.

About 2% of adults worldwide suffer from a condition called non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (Nash), an advanced form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This occurs when fat builds up in the liver, causing inflammation and scarring.

Older patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) have almost twice the risk of dying soon after they are discharged from an intensive care unit (ICU) and within the 12 months afterward, according to research published in the American Journal of Critical Care.

A new collaborative study recently published in the journal Cellular Immunology by researchers from Trinity’s School of Medicine and the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN) is closing the research gap on the actions of an important protein of the immune system—type 1 interferon, whose actions remain poorly understood.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on June 26, 2023, that five cases of locally transmitted malaria had been identified—four in Florida and one in Texas—since May 2023. These are the first cases of locally acquired mosquito-borne malaria in the U.S. since 2003.