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Cedars-Sinai investigators have produced the most extensive analysis to date of changes in the retina—a layer of tissue at the back of the eye where visual information originates—and how those retinal changes correspond to brain and cognitive changes in Alzheimer’s disease patients.

“COVID rebound,” in which evidence of the illness disappears and then returns days or weeks later, is surprisingly common—whether or not patients are given the antiviral Paxlovid.

Selfies have been called everything from an artform to narcissistic and a sign of a dysfunctional society.

Australia’s My Health Record is a national, integrated electronic record, intended to overcome the problem of having personal health information “siloed” in different systems.

By PRINCE MABUMBA

CABINET Office has said the increased Constituency Development Fund (CDF) is critical towards enhancing service delivery hence being placed under local authorities.

Permanent Secretary for Special Duties at Cabinet Office, Patrick Mucheleka has also directed all civil servants in Lumezi to acquaint themselves with the 2022 to 2026 Eighth National Development Plan (8NDP)  to understand the new dawn administration’s policy direction.

Addressing civil servants on his tour of Eastern Province on Tuesday, Mr Mucheleka said CDF had been placed under the council’s deliberately because local authorities were closer to the people than the central government.

Mr Mucheleka said President Hakainde Hichilema had demonstrated political will by allocating huge resources under CDF to councils away from central government because it was the people’s money.

Mr Mucheleka said Zambians had the right to seek clarification from the local authority on the utilisation of CDF because it was Cabinet Office’s desire to enhance accountability, transparency and value for money through all government programmes and projects.

“We must not have a situation where people want to remain poor but we should strive to facilitate for the people to take themselves out of poverty through the services we provide. CDF is people’s money and they have every right to ask how it is being utilised” Mr Mucheleka said.

And Mr Mucheleka has reminded all civil servants that they are in government to serve by ensuring enhanced service delivery and that the Hakainde administration shall not condone anything inimical to service delivery.

“We will not condone anything inimical to the general public. Should we identify you as a bottleneck in the delivery of service to the public, we will remove you so that there are no impediments to development. You are here to serve the people of Lumezi to ensure that there is enhanced service delivery” Mr Mucheleka said.

And Eastern Province Permanent Secretary Paul Thole has advised civil servants to deliver according to the people’s expectations.

People who reported getting regular, uninterrupted sleep did a better job sticking to their exercise and diet plans while trying to lose weight, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle & Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions 2023. The meeting will be held in Boston, February 28-March 3, 2023, and offers the latest science on population-based health and wellness and implications for lifestyle and cardiometabolic health.

Immunotherapies have been successful in treating many cancer conditions; however, not much success has yet been achieved in metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). A study published March 2 in Clinical Cancer Research has revealed new insights into why immunotherapies don’t tend to work as well in prostate cancer.

CORNELIUS Mweetwa is not being honest not only with himself but the millions of Zambia who voted for the United Party for National Development (UPND) in the August 12, 2021 tripartite elections.

The overwhelming vote that President Hakainde Hichilema received was anchored on their promise to bring about positive change in the nation.

That change was to begin immediately that Mr Hichilema was declared winner, starting with the Kwacha gaining strength against the United States dollar.

There were of course other promises that the price of mealie meal would be reduced to at least K50, in addition to cheaper fuel.

Zambians are therefore surprised that Mr Mweetwa, who is UPND spokesperson and Southern Province Minister, while admitting that they voted for change, they should not expect the changes to be immediate.

Mr Mweetwa was quoted in our edition yesterday as saying that Zambians voted for change in the August 2021 general elections but they should not be expecting that the change should be instant.

We do not think Mr Mweetwa has endeared himself with the expectant voters who put their trust in the UPND as a vehicle that would drive them to prosperity.

Speaking on Radio Phoenix Let the People Talk Programme on Tuesday, Mr Mweetwa said the promises of cheaper mealie meal and fuel were being implemented but that the high cost of living was being influenced by external factors which could not be blamed on the UPND.

He said mealie meal prices would only be reduced if local production costs were reduced and that it was his hope that sooner rather than later, Zambians would start smiling because things shall be much better, cheaper and easier.

If anything, Mr Mweetwa has actually proved true the general perception people have about politicians that they speak with forked tongues – never the truth.

For if indeed they were speaking the truth, the crisis that the country has faced in the health and agriculture sector would not be there.  The people were promised improved services.

Government hospitals have since the new dawn administration assumed office been in the “intensive care unit,” operating without basic medicines.

The Minister of Health, Ms Sylvia Masebo has continued to defy logic that there is a crisis in the health sector even when the experts – doctors – on the ground bemoan the crippling shortage of medicines.

In the agriculture sector, the distribution of farming inputs under the Farmers Input Support Programme has been in shambles as the government “sought” to streamline the procurement chain.

In the process, some suppliers, like in the health sector, were removed on suspicion that they had links with the former Patriotic Front regime.

Government abandoned the transparent open tender system and ended up single-sourcing companies to supply fertiliser and the results are there for all to see.

Ironically, Mr Mweetwa claimed that Zambians were not suffering and that citizens were much better than they were during the PF reign in government.

He said they should sacrifice for just a little longer than now as President Hichilema was working at addressing and correcting the economic chaos left by the PF.

And that, according to Mr Mweetwa should not be immediate, but long-term.

Certain chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer cells protect neighboring cancer cells by sending signals that induce resistance, according to a new study from University of Pittsburgh and UPMC researchers that may help explain why ovarian cancer patients respond poorly to chemotherapy or relapse after treatment.

A new study led by UC Davis MIND Institute researchers confirms that brain development in people with autism differs from those with typical neurodevelopment. According to the study published in PNAS, these differences are linked to genes involved in inflammation, immunity response and neural transmissions. They begin in childhood and evolve across the lifespan.