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There are about 700,000 children living with childhood dementia around the world, which is caused by more than 70 rare genetic conditions.

The standard treatment for patients with multiple myeloma often includes stem cell transplantation in which the patient’s own stem cells are harvested and stored while the patient receives intensive chemotherapy to kill the cancer. Then, the patient’s stem cells are returned to the patient to help with recovery. But for a significant proportion of patients, the number of stem cells that can be harvested is not optimal for transplant and negatively affects patient outcomes.

Adjuvant therapy with atezolizumab (Tecentriq) and bevacizumab (Avastin) increased recurrence-free survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) following surgical resection or ablation, according to the results from the phase III IMbrave050 clinical trial, which were presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023, held April 14–19.

When she entered Cooper University Hospital’s outpatient clinic in Camden, New Jersey, in October 2021, Ashley (last name withheld due to privacy concerns) could barely walk.

A liquid biopsy-based multicancer early detection (MCED) test could detect 12 types of cancers, including low DNA-shedding cancers and early-stage cancers, according to data from a retrospective study presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023, held April 14–19.

Preeclampsia is a dangerous complication during pregnancy that endangers both the mother and fetus, but clinicians still don’t have an effective way of predicting who will develop it. New research has uncovered a possible mechanism for how this potentially life-threatening condition occurs and the potential of the immunosuppressive drug hydroxychloroquine to treat it.

ENVIRONMENT experts have warned that the importation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) will eliminate indigenous crops that are more resilient and nutritious. 

By PRISCA LUMINGU in Mugubudu

The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) board chairperson Kelvin Hambwezya has announced that it will start the procurement of maize for the 2023/2024 crop marketing season by the first week of May 2023.

A medication that has been found to effectively treat the skin disease alopecia areata in adults is also successful in treating adolescent patients, according to a Yale-led clinical trial.

GOVERNMENT is optimistic that the implementation of the Girls Education and Women’s Empowerment and Livelihood (GEWEL) Project will assist in addressing challenges faced by women and girls.

Gender Division Permanent Secretary, Mainga Kabika says women and girls have continued to be marginalized in the economic, political, cultural and social development process of national development.

Ms Kabika notes that the GEWEL project was aimed at increasing access to livelihood support for women and access to secondary education for disadvantaged adolescent’s girls in extremely poor households in selected districts.

ZANIS reports that Ms Kabika said this when she paid a courtesy call on Muchinga Province Permanent Secretary during the monitoring and evaluation of the GEWEL project in the region.

She explained that beneficiaries of the project are drawn from the social cash transfer households.

Ms Kabika explained that the GEWEL project has so many components with one being supporting business and life skills training, monitoring, peer support, productivity grants and facilitation of savings groups for 129,400 women.

She noted that Keeping Girls in Schools (KGS) aims to support 43,520 adolescents’ girls in extremely poor households to access secondary education, adding that this component is implemented by the ministry of education.

Ms Kabika added that institutional strengthening and system building are the components that support the government to build a single registry for selection of beneficiaries to improve targeting accuracy while improving synergies across programs.

She stated that Social Cash Transfer (SCT) was a new subcomponent that was providing direct financing to the government’s social cash transfer program to cover approximately 245.000 people up to the year 2024.

Ms Kabika noted that the Gender Division was mandated to coordinate the implementation of the GEWEL project and continues to perform the monitoring and evaluation functions as a means of providing oversight of the project.

She noted that the main objective of the evaluation exercise was to appreciate progress achieved, bottlenecks and challenges that the GEWEL projects may be facing in the district.

“Whilst in the province my team and will visit Chinsali Nakonde Mpika, and Lavushimanda Districts, she said.