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A new research perspective was published in Oncotarget entitled “Cancer prevention with rapamycin.”

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center served as the lead site for a promising first-in-human clinical trial for patients with relapsed multiple myeloma. Patients treated with higher doses of the immunotherapy called REGN5459 resulted in a 90.5% overall response rate.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is how we visualize soft, watery tissue that is hard to image with X-rays. But while an MRI provides good enough resolution to spot a brain tumor, it needs to be a lot sharper to visualize microscopic details within the brain that reveal its organization.

By JACKSON MAPAPAYI

MWINILUNGA Member of Parliament Newton Samakayi has alleged that his office, that of the District Commissioner and the Council Chairperson are not working in harmony in fostering development in the area.

Mr Samakayi is complaining that the failure by the three offices to collaborate and work in tandem has resulted into delayed implementation of projects and service delivery.

He has observed that developmental activities in the district have over the years delayed to be complete due to the three offices in the area overstepping their operational boundaries.

He said there was need for each of the three offices to understand their roles in fostering development so that they did not overstep their operational boundaries.

“There is lack of coordination between the office of the MP, the DC and that of the Council Secretary. We do not seem to know our roles and this is leading to overstepping our boundaries. And if this continues, the ones to suffer are the people,” said Mr Samakayi.

He was speaking at Mwinilunga new market during a handover ceremony of a new shelter constructed through funding from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).

He said the increased CDF will only have meaningful impact when the three key decision-making offices in the district choose to put aside personal interests and work as a team.

“This equally goes to all government departments, we need to work in harmony,” he said.

And Mr Samakayi has observed that the current shortage of mealie meal in the country is as a result of most farmers selling all their produce without reserving some for household food security.

The time has come and gone for universal masking in healthcare settings, according to healthcare epidemiologists and infectious diseases experts from healthcare systems throughout Boston and beyond. In a commentary published in Annals of Internal Medicine and co-authored by experts from Mass General Brigham, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Tufts Medicine, the VA Healthcare System Boston, and other healthcare systems across the country, the authors describe the changing context and conditions of the pandemic and outline why universal masking should no longer be required in healthcare settings.

Food and alcohol consumption as means of easing stress are linked with body weight in both the long, and short terms. These are among the results of Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare’s (THL) follow-up study examining how common eating and alcohol use are as stress management methods for men and women, and their connections with body weight and how it develops over a 30-year period.

Patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who were treated with the two highest doses of REGN5459, a bispecific antibody targeting BCMA and CD3, experienced a 90.5% overall response rate, according to results of a phase I/II clinical trial presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023, held April 14-19.

Genomic profiling of patients who were treated for colorectal cancer at a major U.S. cancer center showed that patients with African ancestry had fewer actionable mutations than patients with European ancestry and were less likely to qualify for treatment with immunotherapy, according to data presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023, held April 14-19.

Americans have become less aware that the human papillomavirus (HPV) causes cervical cancer in recent years, according to survey data presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023, held April 14-19. Survey respondents also showed low awareness that HPV can cause anal, oral, and penile cancer.

By ROGERS KALERO

SCANDALS are emerging in some Constituency Development Fund (CDF) contracts with some organisations awarded contracts to supply desks, supplying sub-standards desks which they are delivering to schools in the evening without the knowledge of the office of the Member of Parliament (MP), councillors and other stakeholders 

The suppliers of the desks are allegedly delivering the desks to schools in the night to school caretakers who cannot question the quality of desks who would later report to the head teacher about the delivery.

In cases where the head teacher of the school is present when delivering the desks, the head teacher has no authority to question the quality of the desks on the assumption that the MP, Councillor and the CDF Committee could have certified the desks.

Chimwemwe Ward Councillor Kelly Muwowo and his Twatasha Ward counterpart Felix Mwalumuna confirmed the supply of the sub-standard desks in some schools which were being delivered in the evening without informing the MP, Councillor and other stakeholders

While the Twatasha Ward Councillor could not say much before meeting the suppliers of the desks, his Chimwemwe Ward counterpart Kelly Muwowo said most of the desks which had been supplied to schools were of poor quality

Mr Muwowo, who is a carpenter, said the quality of the desks which were being supplied to schools were so poor that even a lay man with no knowledge could see the poor quality

“There is also the aspect of delivering the desks in schools in the evening. What is that? Delivering desks in secrecy without informing the office of the MP, the councillor and other stakeholders. 

You wake up in the morning only to be informed of desks which were delivered at some school in the evening. When you go to check the desks, you find poor quality or sub-standard desks,’’ Mr Muwowo said

Last week, Chimwemwe MP, Allen Banda called for a thorough investigations into the purchase of poor-quality school desks by the Procurement Department of the Kitwe City Council (KCC) using CDF

Mr Banda said he was calling for a thorough probe into the purchase of the more than 300 desks which were not only of poor quality, but were also not durable and could easily be damaged within a short time

Mr Banda was speaking when he inspected the first batch of the 720 desks bought by the Procurement Department of the KCC for Chimwemwe Secondary School, Ishuko and Kampemba primary schools

Out of the 720 desks, 300 have already been delivered at Ishuko Primary School where the MP inspected them and expressed dissatisfaction and disappointment at the poor-quality desks which were bought using the CDF