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Glioblastoma is a swift and aggressive brain cancer, with an average life expectancy of about one year after diagnosis. It’s difficult to treat, in part because the cellular makeup of each tumor varies greatly from person to person.

A large international team of medical researchers has found that the severity of COVID-19 infections in children over the course of the pandemic varied by age and viral variant. In their study, reported in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, the group analyzed clinical data for 31,785 children hospitalized due to COVID-19 infections from January 2020 to March 2022.

When Dr. Bodo Beck first saw the three children of a family who had fled Syria sitting in his consultation room at University Hospital Cologne, the human geneticist was surprised. His genetic analysis diagnosed Bartter syndrome type 3, but never before had he seen such severe joint changes in patients with this rare disease.

Aside from transfusions, there currently is no way to boost people’s platelet counts, leaving them at risk for uncontrolled bleeding. Could something as simple as a dietary change raise platelet counts in people with low levels, such as cancer patients receiving chemotherapy?

By NATION REPORTER 

OPERATION Young Vote (YOV) has condemned UPND cadres for attacking former president Edgar Lungu as they question what motivated their conduct.

YOV executive director, Guess Nyirenda said it was extremely perturbing to note how the UPND cadres were behaving at national events that were supposed to unite Zambians such as traditional ceremonies.

Mr Nyirenda said the conduct of the Youth from the UPND to attempt to physically prevent President Lungu from attending the traditional ceremony in Malambo at the invitation of Senior Chief Nsefu of the Kunda people was despicable. 

“We are very appalled as OYV, especially that those reported to have conducted themselves in an unruly manner were the youth,” he said.

He said their action was cheap, trivial, backwards, ancient and unacceptable behaviour and politics and does not only warrant serious condemnation but also punishable by both the law and the gods if it were possible. 

Mr Nyirenda said the question that begged an answer was what had motivated the conduct, why block a former President from attending a traditional ceremony in his province of origin, very shameful.

He said the police should identify the cadres that attacked Mr. Lungu, arrest them and begin the process of prosecuting them so that they account for their misconduct.

Mr Nyirenda said all political parties especially the UPND must tame their cadres so as to ensure that they respect every citizen more so the elders, traditional authorities including the former head of States.

He said the unfortunate trend of not respecting the Church and its leadership, the general citizenry and now the traditional authority was growing.

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Neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying for decades to better understand how humans make decisions, in the hope to devise more effective interventions to promote healthy and beneficial lifestyle choices. Two brain regions that have been linked to decision-making are the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).

Diabetes is a condition in which the body produces too little or no insulin. Diabetics thus depend on an external supply of this hormone via injection or pump.

By GRACE CHAILE

THE Attorney General Chambers have asked the Lusaka High Court to dismiss the matter in which a group of 10 UPND cadres is demanding K10 million as compensation for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution.

And another group of 10 UPND cadres who were accused of burning Lusaka’s City Market in 2017, will be compensated K1 million each by the State for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution.

In a consent judgement dated July 13, 2023, signed by Lusaka High Court Judge, Situmbeko Chocho, the Attorney General, Mr Mulilo Kabesha, agreed to compensate the plaintiffs K1 million each and K700, 000 for legal fees.

“That the defendant shall pay each plaintiff the sum of K1 million as damages. That the defendant shall pay costs in the sum of K700, 000. That the above shall be full and final settlement of all the claims in this matter,” read the document.

The 10 are Michael Tembo, Njwau Sitali, Mainza Chongo, Mulenga Chileshe and Wonder Nakazuba.

Others are David Samba, Sitali Mukuni, Biggie Mubanga, Zhyinga Kahiata and James Hambulo.

Meanwhile, in another matter, Lubinda Simonda and nine others, the UPND cadres who were arrested and charged with riotous behaviour in 2016, but were later acquitted want the State to pay them legal fees in the sum of K550, 000 and K5, 500 each for loss of business. 

But the Attorney General’s Chambers in an affidavit sworn by Counsel Etambuyu Mutonga has raised preliminary issues contending that the plaintiffs were abusing the court process having already commenced a matter with similar reliefs in the same court under cause number 2022/HP/067. 

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Pat Bennett’s prescription is a bit more complicated than “Take a couple of aspirins and call me in the morning.” But a quartet of baby-aspirin-sized sensors implanted in her brain are aimed at addressing a condition that’s frustrated her and others: the loss of the ability to speak intelligibly. The devices transmit signals from a couple of speech-related regions in Bennett’s brain to state-of-the-art software that decodes her brain activity and converts it to text displayed on a computer screen.

By NATION REPORTER 

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has said Zambia’s untapped tourism sector presents business opportunities which were key in creating more jobs and improved livelihoods for our rural population.

President Hichilema said he was encouraging discussions on his government’s goal to position Zambia as the top destination for both local and international tourism.

Mr Hichilema who welcomed a delegation from African Parks led by their Chief Executive Officer Mr Peter Fearnhead. 

“Our talks centered on the organisation’s conservation interventions in Liuwa Plains National Park, Bangweulu Wetlands and Kafue National Park. We commended Africa Parks for utilizing technology in their conservation initiatives including in the control room installed at Kafue National Park, which monitors wildlife movements across the park in real time and addresses security concerns like wild fires and encroachments,” he said. 

He said organisations like African Parks were partnering with Government by enhancing linkages, building capacity and improving infrastructure, which all created the right environment to achieve their shared ambitions for the tourism sector.

President Hichilema said it was fulfilling to see how much had been done over the decades by African Parks, starting with the first project Liuwa national park in Western Province that today hosts the second largest wildebeest migration in Africa.  

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