Pay off mine contractors, suppliers – mining expert

By MILLENNIUM REPORTER

MINING Expert Augustine Mubanga has called on government to urgently address the problem non-payment of contractors and supplies who are withdrawing labour if aspirations to increase copper production to 3 million metric tonnes has to be actualized.

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Does where patients choose to have breast cancer surgery drive health care inequality?

Including patients as partners for making decisions about their medical treatments is an important aspect of patient-centered care. A new study from England examined choices that patients with breast cancer make when considering where to have surgery for their condition and assessed how policies that offer such choices might affect inequalities in the health care system. The findings are published in the journal Cancer.

CJ SUMMONS JUDGES, LAWYERS

…over the PF cases in which Miles Sampa has installed himself as party president to understand why the matters are not being handled expeditiously  

By NATION REPORTER

CHIEF Justice Mumba Malila SC has summoned High Court Judges and all the lawyers presiding and handling the Patriotic Front (PF) wrangles in which expelled Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa installed himself as purported president of the former ruling party through an illegal convention.

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Out-of-pocket cost increase could put HIV prevention medications out of reach

Increasing patients’ out of pocket costs for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), medications, which have been shown to dramatically reduce the risk of HIV infection, could lead to a significant reduction in PrEP use and a rise in HIV infection rates, according to a new study co-led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dlung: A novel method for lung image registration

Research published in Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Science) has proposed a new method for lung image registration named Dlung. Dlung is an unsupervised few-shot learning-based diffeomorphic lung image registration, which can help construct respiratory motion models based on limited data with both high speed and high accuracy, offering a more efficient method for respiratory motion modeling.

Can we fight back against Parkinson’s disease? These research volunteers hope so

About three years before he retired, David Campbell noticed something weird happening as he typed. Whenever he tried to hit a letter, say “a,” he’d get “aaa,” like the keyboard was jamming or his finger was triple-tapping the key. That wasn’t the only thing that seemed off—his sense of smell was faltering. “Little things,” he says, “that I didn’t think of as being a big deal.”