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A Florida State University researcher’s work to understand exactly what part of the brain is involved in disorders such as anxiety, PTSD and other phobias is giving scientists and clinicians valuable insights into how to treat such disorders.

National Institutes of Health researchers compared a new genetic animal model of Down syndrome to the standard model and found the updated version to be enhanced. The new mouse model shows milder cognitive traits compared to a previously studied Down syndrome mouse model. The results of this study, published in Biological Psychiatry, may help researchers develop more precise treatments to improve cognition in people with Down syndrome.

For most people, getting burrs stuck to your clothes during a hike is nothing more than a nuisance, something to pick off and throw out when you get home. But for scientists at the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB), the hooks on these little hitchhikers are inspiring new suturing schemes for surgical reattachment of tendon to bone.

More should be done to help victims of suspected spiking attacks process the psychological trauma of the event by testing patients who arrive at the hospital intoxicated, say the authors of a new study titled, “Drink and injection spiking: how to approach an increase in presentations?” published in the Emergency Medicine Journal.

Atopic dermatitis skin lesions and the lesions produced by infectious complications of the disease look so similar that it makes it impossible for patients to spot the difference and know when to visit their doctor for treatment. But an AI-powered mobile app developed by dermatologists now puts the power of diagnosis in the hands of patients.

THE violence that characterised this year’s Youth Day commemoration against PF members in Kitwe, Ndola and Kasama is an indictment against the UPND government under the leadership of President Hakainde Hichilema, Patriotic Front (PF) chairperson for information and publicity Raphael Nakacinda has said.

Mr Nakacinda said President Hichilema should care know that his international friends, especially the Western countries that he is hoodwinking that he is a democrat should realise that the head of State did not mean what he preached.

He claimed that there had been instructions from the UPND leadership to allow no more than 50 PF youths in each province to march so that the ruling party red regalia was not diminished with the white and green colours of the former ruling party.

Mr Nakacinda recalled that President Hichilema upon ascending to power had promised Zambians that he was going to unite the country by avoiding the temptation of vengeance, persecution, retribution and political violence but that his pledges had turned out to be false.

He said the people should partner with the opposition to continue condemning violence because it was casting the UPND as a violent and autocratic regime that did not believe in political parties’ co-existence.

“Zambians must know that they need to partner with the opposition, continue condemning violence so that it is removed from our governance system. We shudder to imagine what is to come in the next three years looking at what is at the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ). Just look at what he is doing with civil service and what he is doing with all the institutions. Now he is removing the Auditor General, Dr Dick Sichembe and he is going to remove all those who are working professionally from the civil and public service,” Mr Nakacinda said.

Mr Nakacinda accused the state police of working together with UPND operatives to brutalise PF youths in Kitwe, Ndola and Kasama for only turning out in large numbers for the Youth Day celebrations.

He explained that in Kitwe it was even worse because the President himself was in attendance at Arthur Davies Stadium and could not allow PF youths to enter the venue for the march past. He said the UPND came up with a strategy to try and undermine the attendance of PF members by suggesting that the opposition party should only be allowed 50 youths to march at every point where the commemorations were taking place.

For women aged 18 to 55 years, ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) hospitalization rates decreased during 2008 to 2019, with the decline driven by a reduced proportion of hospitalizations among women aged 45 to 55 years, according to a study published in the March 7 issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed new imaging technology that can produce 3D maps showing the magnitude and distribution of uterine contractions in real time and across the entire surface of the uterus during labor. Building on imaging methods long used on the heart, this technology can image uterine contractions noninvasively and in much greater detail than currently available tools, which only indicate the presence or absence of a contraction.

Bryson underwent surgery to remove a part of his small intestine, colon, and the appendix.

A MALAWIAN has sued the Council of the University of Zambia demanding that it confers her with a Masters of Business Administration in Management Strategy.

Ms Susan Tissah Mkangama wants the Lusaka High Court to order the Council of the University to, in the alternative, refund her tuition fees with interest at a rate to be determined by the court.

Ms Mkangama wants the court to order that she be paid damages for loss of use of funds.

She also wants damages for loss, inconvenience, damages for mental anguish,  legal costs and any other relief that the court may deem fit.

She has stated in a statement of claim that she was a Malawian with interest to study or major in a Master of Business Administration with the University of Zambia.

She submitted that about October 2019  she duly  tendered  an application  to the defendant  university  for the purpose of being enrolled  under  the 100 percent  online MBA in entrepreneurship programme  the university was offering .

Ms Mkangama stated that by an email from the university‘s administration department dated October 22, 2019, she was advised that she would  need  an application fee,  scanned copies  of academic documents,  O Level records  or equivalent  for International students and  a scanned  copy  of her National Identification  Card (NRC)  and  passport  for her application  to be processed.

Ms Mkangama stated that from the foregoing, she has suffered loss and damage.