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Low participation rates in cancer screening have become a concern in Japan, and breast cancer is no exception. Despite the government’s objective of achieving a 50% participation rate by 2016, participation rates in breast cancer screening remained below this threshold even in 2019. To address this issue, it is crucial to identify nonparticipating individuals in the screening process.

Among the hottest sectors for artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is health care. The Food and Drug Administration has now approved more than 500 AI devices—most within just the last couple of years—to assist doctors across a range of tasks, from gauging heart failure risk to diagnosing cancer.

Research into the onset and progression of diseases affecting musculoskeletal soft tissues could be greatly advanced using novel 3D models, say researchers from the Nuffield Department of Orthopedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) at the University of Oxford. Their review has been published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

By GRACE CHAILE

FORMER President Edgar Lungu’s daughter, Chiyeso Lungu, has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Court to set aside the matter in which the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Gilbert Phiri, is demanding for the forfeiture to the State of  her property worth K9 million via the non-conviction forfeiture law.

An eight-year QIMR Berghofer clinical trial of a brain stimulation treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has ended with a negative result, but researchers say the outcome helps progress the development of effective interventions for the debilitating condition.

The National Institutes of Health has announced it was enrolling hundreds of people in phase 2 clinical trials that will evaluate at least four potential treatments for long COVID.

BY NATION REPORTER

GIVEN Lubinda has branded the governing UPND as a band of capitalist oligarchs stepping on the majority poor to rise and protect their capitalistic interests without any form of care for the deprived in society.

The thymus gland—which produces immune T cells before birth and during childhood— is often regarded as nonfunctional in adults, and it’s sometimes removed during cardiac surgery for easier access to the heart and major blood vessels.

A new artificial intelligence model finds that X-ray images collected during routine medical care can provide warning signs for diabetes, even in patients who don’t meet the guidelines for elevated risk. The model could help physicians detect the disease earlier and prevent complications, says a multi-institutional team which published the findings in Nature Communications.

Using a “care hotel” model, which discharges patients to a specialty hospital hotel after smaller surgeries, can lower costs and shorten patients’ time in the hospital, according to a study presented at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS) 20th Annual Meeting and published in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery.