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Doctors at Guthrie Healthcare System, in Sayre, Pennsylvania, have documented a case of a teenage boy who swallowed 21 disc magnets. In their paper published in BMJ Case Reports, the medical team describes how they found the magnets, removed them, and cared for the boy afterward.

Cardiac pacemakers are battery-dependent, where the pacing leads are prone to introduce valve damage and infection. In addition, complete pacemaker retrieval is necessary for battery replacement. Despite the presence of a wireless bioelectronics device to pace the epicardium, surgeons still need to implant the device via thoracotomy, an invasive surgical procedure in health care that necessitates wound healing.

A common, cat-borne parasite already associated with risk-taking behavior and mental illness in humans may also contribute to exhaustion, loss of muscle mass, and other signs of “frailty” in older adults, suggests a study published Nov. 6 in the Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biomedical Sciences and Medical Sciences.

By MICHAEL MIYOBA

KITWE Bullets ended their search for the first win in the new FAZ Premier Futsal League season after beating Green Buffaloes 4-1 in a Week-5 fixture played over the weekend at Automotive Indoor Futsal Arena.

Bullets, who had struggled with two draws and two defeats in the first four matches outplayed Buffaloes who were determined to collect maximum points to move into the top four on the FAZ/PFL table.

Bullets first win propelled them to eighth on the log with five points, one point behind Buffaloes who were able to maintain sixth position with six points.

Meanwhile, defending champions Lusaka Automotive maintained top spot on the Futsal League table after outclassing BS Stars 9-0.

The latest victory maintained Automotive’s perfect start, winning all the five matches played so far to move to 15 points.

Auto are two points ahead of second-placed Mudi Stars who enjoyed a 4-2 win over Monze George who were relegated to ninth position on the log.

In other matches played over the weekend, Siavonga Beetles moved to seventh on the log with six points after defeating Mthunzi 6-4.

Mthunzi remains as the only team yet to win a match after losing all the five matches they have played.  

Lusaka Avengers moved to third on the league table after edging CSS Petauke with a 6-5 win.

The win propelled Avengers to 10 points, on par with second-placed Mudi Stars who have a better goal difference.

SCORE BOARD:

Mudi Stars 4-2 Monze George 

Green Buffaloes 1-4 Kitwe Bullets 

Metro Lilanda 1-7 Kafue Saints 

Siavonga Beetles 6-4 Mthunzi 

BS Stars 0-9 Lusaka Automotive 

CSS Petauke 5-6 Lusaka Avengers.

A study by researchers and clinicians at the University of Eastern Finland and Helsinki University Hospital provides novel insight into the previously unknown effects of fibroblasts in regulating blood vessel formation in vascular malformations. In the study, the researchers demonstrated that fibroblasts participated in the formation of venous malformations. Drug therapy with afatinib, an ErbB inhibitor, resulted in reduced lesion volume. The findings could be used in developing treatments for vascular malformations with a fibrous component.

A clinical study on special diets at the University of Cologne shows promising results on the use of a ketogenic diet as a possible treatment for hereditary polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). This disease causes about 10% of all cases of kidney failure and is the most common hereditary kidney disease worldwide.

…meaning things don’t make any sense 

By NATION REPORTER

IT is madness that an individual who is a member of a central committee or a club can, by himself and a candidate in that political party organise what he first called a retreat and turns it into a conference without following any laid down constitutional procedures and then have himself elected as a president.

By NATION REPORTER

IT is important that there is enough democratic space in parliament, we may differ in opinion, we may bring motions that may look to be strange but people should not look and say that this one is from the opposition so we shall not take the motion seriously, PF Kamfinsa Member of Parliament Christopher Kang’ombe has said.

Online shopping for cigarettes and vaping products increased significantly in the weeks following the implementation of SB-793, a 2022 California law prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products.

By GRACE CHAILE

A MAN of Chipata Compound has appeared in the Lusaka High Court and pleaded not guilty to the gruesome murder of 10-year-old, Universal Kamushi.