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Driven by the ongoing opioid epidemic and the sharing of needles, hepatitis C cases have been rising in the United States over the last decade, with the highest infection rates among young adults, including women of childbearing age. Without treatment, hepatitis C can lead to acute and chronic hepatitis, increasing the risk of liver cancer, liver failure and other conditions.

Duke University researchers created a computer program that determines, with 94% accuracy, if a person’s age-related macular degeneration (AMD) will worsen within a year.

Cobalt was widely used for hip and knee joint replacements until cases of heavy metal poisoning appeared. Now, researchers from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Carnegie Mellon report a way to protect people with these implants from cobalt toxicity.

A new study led by Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers has identified numerous physical health conditions, particularly diseases of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, that have genetic links to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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THE Bishops Council of Zambia (BCZ) says it is very difficult for the church to render a voice on matters that are obtaining in the PF as it is political in nature.

The council says the church usually takes interest in issues that border on governance.

BCZ general secretary, Able Kaela, said the issues surrounding the PF was dicey for the church to delve into.

Bishop Kaela however said the church have to take their time to digest the matters properly so that proper guidance can be given to the affected parties so that no one would blame it of taking sides.

He said the church is also seeking God’s intervention in many things that are happening in the country so that the land can be healed.

“We might seem quiet now as a church but we are praying for the situation because we don’t want our message to fall on deaf ears when we speak,” he said.

Bishop Kaela said the time will come when the church will come out which will stop the happenings in the former ruling party.

And Bishop Kaela said the church is seeing the injustices that are happening in the country currently but it cannot come out and protest because protest in Zambia is an exercise in futility because they do not yield any results.         

Researchers led by the University of Toronto, Canada, have conducted a randomized clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of enhanced vs. minimal nasal suctioning in treating infants with bronchiolitis after discharge from the emergency department.

Researchers at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) have uncovered why C. diff (also known as Clostridioides difficile or C. difficile) infection has developed resistance to the antibiotic metronidazole.

The “hygiene hypothesis” posits that allergic asthma can be triggered by a childhood environment that is too clean and sterile. One studied mechanism underlying this relationship is the influence of microbial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which train the immune system.

It’s likely that few people had heard of frontotemporal dementia until earlier this year, when the family of actor Bruce Willis announced the 68-year-old had been diagnosed with the condition.

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified new scoring criteria allowing for the detection of treatable forms of rapidly progressive dementia (RPD) with reasonably high confidence during a patient’s first clinical visit. This scoring criteria may allow physicians to substantially reduce the time it takes to begin treatment. The findings are published in the Annals of Neurology.