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The opioid crisis continues to pose a grave public health concern, with synthetic opioids such as fentanyl posing a major risk for development of addiction and death due to overdose. A recent study by the research group led by Prof. Ami Citri at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences has unveiled crucial insights into the brain’s potential ability to regulate the urge to consume fentanyl. This discovery offers a glimmer of hope in the ongoing battle against opioid addiction.

Finding evidence of what is known as “anchoring bias,” UCLA-led research suggests that patients with congestive heart failure experiencing shortness of breath are less likely to be tested in the emergency department for a potentially fatal pulmonary embolism, or a blood clot in the lung, when the reason for the visit noted during the initial emergency department check-in process specifically mentions congestive heart failure instead of the broader “shortness of breath.”

The successful campaign of adoptive T cell therapies, a type of immunotherapy in which immune T cells are collected from a patient, enhanced outside of the body, and reinfused back into the same patient, especially against blood cancers is well under way. But improving the ability to create patient-specific T cell populations with specific traits and functions could broaden clinicians’ repertoire of T cell therapies.

More than three months after suffering from mild COVID infection, men have lower sperm concentrations and fewer sperm that are able to swim, according to new findings presented at the 39th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE).

New controlled trial research documents that progesterone (micronized, oral) is effective at decreasing night sweats and improving sleep in perimenopausal women who have menstruated in the last year. Perimenopausal women most want treatment for these two symptoms. The findings are published in the journal Scientific Reports.

By NATION REPORTER
THE Patriotic Front (PF) has set October 29, 2023, as the date for its long-awaited extra-ordinary elective general conference while its constitutional conference has been slated for July 29, 2023.
At its central committee meeting yesterday, the former ruling party has since approved a K5.7 million budget for its elective general conference.

By ROGERS KALERO
THE securing of Zambia’s debt restructuring by President Hakainde Hichilema will set the stage for achieving economic recovery and national development because more resources will be allocated towards improving service delivery in critical areas like health, education, infrastructure, energy, transport and job creation, Saul Simujika has said.

By NATION REPORTER
ZAMBIANS should rise and condemn the emerging incidences of torture of members of the opposition by the police because if not stopped, the torture of opposition political party figures could be catastrophic as the country draws closer to 2026, Socialist Party spokesperson Frank Bwalya has said.

…The nation is losing huge amounts of money from illicit mineral trade which foreign mining firms are undertaking with impunity, says Davison Mung’andu.

By NATION REPORTER
FOREIGN-owned mining entities are the country of its mineral wealth through illicit activities, which can only be stopped if radical audit and mine ownership policies favoring Zambians were implemented Davison Mung’andu, Chama South Patriotic Front (PF) Member of Parliament has said.

By ROGERS KALERO
POLICE in Ndola have arrested three more suspects including a driver in the case where armed robbers drove away with a truck laden with copper cathodes.