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Through study findings published in Cell Reports, a team of scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center has discovered a previously unknown interaction between proteins that is responsible for supplying energy to tumor cells and could hold significant implications for the development of future treatments for colon cancer.

The United States is experiencing its highest overall death rates in more than a century, fueled in part by drug overdose mortality. The origins of the current epidemic are due, at least in part, to a 1986 World Health Organization pronouncement that pain treatment is a universal right. As such, cancer pain treatment guidelines were developed, which included the provision of opioids. In 1995, OxyContin was approved for the management of pain, paving the way for widespread prescription of opioids.

BY NATION REPORTER

THE Patriotic Front has branded its Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa a wandering joker with a false belief that he would single-handedly dismantle the former ruling party and pave way for the governing UPND as easy sailing into the 2026 general elections.

A new study shows that the activation of the brain’s immune defense cells—astrocytes—in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease could be tracked early with a brain PET scanner and is linked to changes that can be detected in the blood later in the course of the disease. The study has now been published in Molecular Neurodegeneration.

Hard of hearing people with dementia are not receiving the care they desperately need, according to a new study by University of Manchester researchers.

Researchers have developed a non-invasive method for mapping the human auditory pathway, which could potentially be used as a tool to help clinicians decide the best surgical strategy for patients with profound hearing loss.

Primary ciliary dyskenisia (PCD) is a rare genetic disease that causes the tiny hair-like filtration structures in the respiratory tract to stop working. As a result, the lungs accumulate thick mucus and become more susceptible to inflammation and recurring infections, both of which can result in long-term lung damage.

Researchers have produced a comprehensive picture of insulin signaling in mice and suggest that it is shaped by entangled effects of genetics and diet.

By MICHAEL MIYOBA

TRIDENT FC, the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) Super League outfit have sent head coach Israel Mwanza on administrative leave.

Canada on Tuesday approved an updated Moderna COVID vaccine targeting new variants, and is reviewing others likely to be rolled out this fall to mitigate infections once more on the rise.