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Sports and exercise medicine must up its game to break the cycle of gender bias in the specialty, urge an international group of doctors in an editorial in the open access journal BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine.

The University of Ottawa’s Interdisciplinary Center for Black Health survey reveals the scope of coronavirus vaccine hesitancy in Black communities in relation to health care.

Medical professionals call high blood pressure—also known as hypertension—the silent killer because it can go undetected for a long period of time and leads to death. Most people who have high blood pressure do not have any symptoms; testing is the only way to determine if someone has it.

While the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have passed, the effects of post-COVID conditions on public health remain. A new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators has found that the risk of long COVID and its symptoms present very differently across diverse populations and suggests that further investigation is needed to accurately define the disease and improve diagnosis and treatment.

A new research paper titled “Single-cell transcriptomic analysis uncovers diverse and dynamic senescent cell populations” has been published in Aging.

A University of Central Florida College of Medicine researcher has developed a new, more precise treatment for a major cause of illness around the world each year—acute respiratory viral infections.

When patients receive a low-dose computed tomography screen for lung cancer, doctors can see more than just the lungs. The screening test often picks up abnormalities or potentially “significant incidental findings” (SIFS) not associated with lung cancer.

By NAMO PHIRI

ZAMBIANS need to embark on the route to be export oriented in order to grow the economy, Economic Association of Zambia (EAZ) President Enoch Ngoma has said.

Mr Ngoma said, the only way this will be achieved is by scaling up the production in various key economic sectors. Mr Ngoma said, the country needs to focus on increasing production in agriculture and the mining sectors. “Currently the production is very low which is worrying for the economy. We need to ensure that we scale up production in maize so that we can have enough for consumption and then we export the surplus.

There is too much demand in terms of the agriculture produce in the region which needs to take advantage of,” he said. The association President further said “The challenges being faced at Konkola Copper Mine and Mopani Copper Mine has really disadvantaged production. Mr Ngoma said, it is important that the government see to it that the challenges are dealt with so that the two mining giants can back to their knees.

He said, if the two mining giants start producing more the country will be able to export in excess which will bring more foreign exchange thereby stabilizing the performance of the local currency.

Meanwhile Mr Ngoma said, there is need for holistic resource mobilization so that the country can see meaningful growth. He said, the treasury cannot be dependent on institutions like Zambia Information and Communication Authority for resource mobilisation.

While the mpox outbreak has been waning since last summer, it hasn’t disappeared yet.

Surveillance data sources and indicators will support monitoring the impact of COVID-19 after expiration of the U.S. COVID-19 public health emergency declaration on May 11, according to two articles published in the May 5 early-release issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.