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Blind or colorblind people can describe colors and use expressions like “green with envy” or “feeling blue.” A hearing-impaired person can also say those same vibrant hues are “loud.” But many linguists and cognitive neuroscientists have assumed that somatosensation—touch, pain, pressure, temperature, and proprioception, or the sense of where your body is oriented in space—is fundamental for understanding metaphors that have to do with tactile sensations. Understanding expressions like “she is having a tough time” or “that class was hard,” it was believed, requires previous experience with those sensations to extend their meaning to metaphors.

After three popular primetime medical dramas included storylines about health harms from using e-cigarettes, hundreds of people took to Twitter to comment—including some who said they planned to quit vaping because of what they saw on the shows. A new analysis led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health scientists and published in the Journal of Health Communication examines the tweets for insights into the use of television shows to share public health messaging.

A new research perspective was published in Oncotarget entitled “Cancer prevention with rapamycin.”

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center served as the lead site for a promising first-in-human clinical trial for patients with relapsed multiple myeloma. Patients treated with higher doses of the immunotherapy called REGN5459 resulted in a 90.5% overall response rate.

By JACKSON MAPAPAYI

MWINILUNGA Member of Parliament Newton Samakayi has alleged that his office, that of the District Commissioner and the Council Chairperson are not working in harmony in fostering development in the area.

Mr Samakayi is complaining that the failure by the three offices to collaborate and work in tandem has resulted into delayed implementation of projects and service delivery.

He has observed that developmental activities in the district have over the years delayed to be complete due to the three offices in the area overstepping their operational boundaries.

He said there was need for each of the three offices to understand their roles in fostering development so that they did not overstep their operational boundaries.

“There is lack of coordination between the office of the MP, the DC and that of the Council Secretary. We do not seem to know our roles and this is leading to overstepping our boundaries. And if this continues, the ones to suffer are the people,” said Mr Samakayi.

He was speaking at Mwinilunga new market during a handover ceremony of a new shelter constructed through funding from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).

He said the increased CDF will only have meaningful impact when the three key decision-making offices in the district choose to put aside personal interests and work as a team.

“This equally goes to all government departments, we need to work in harmony,” he said.

And Mr Samakayi has observed that the current shortage of mealie meal in the country is as a result of most farmers selling all their produce without reserving some for household food security.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is how we visualize soft, watery tissue that is hard to image with X-rays. But while an MRI provides good enough resolution to spot a brain tumor, it needs to be a lot sharper to visualize microscopic details within the brain that reveal its organization.

The time has come and gone for universal masking in healthcare settings, according to healthcare epidemiologists and infectious diseases experts from healthcare systems throughout Boston and beyond. In a commentary published in Annals of Internal Medicine and co-authored by experts from Mass General Brigham, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Tufts Medicine, the VA Healthcare System Boston, and other healthcare systems across the country, the authors describe the changing context and conditions of the pandemic and outline why universal masking should no longer be required in healthcare settings.

Food and alcohol consumption as means of easing stress are linked with body weight in both the long, and short terms. These are among the results of Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare’s (THL) follow-up study examining how common eating and alcohol use are as stress management methods for men and women, and their connections with body weight and how it develops over a 30-year period.

Patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who were treated with the two highest doses of REGN5459, a bispecific antibody targeting BCMA and CD3, experienced a 90.5% overall response rate, according to results of a phase I/II clinical trial presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023, held April 14-19.

Genomic profiling of patients who were treated for colorectal cancer at a major U.S. cancer center showed that patients with African ancestry had fewer actionable mutations than patients with European ancestry and were less likely to qualify for treatment with immunotherapy, according to data presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023, held April 14-19.