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An analysis of real-world data from more than 1.2 million patients from health systems in four geographically dispersed states—Indiana, Oregon, Texas and Utah—conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s VISION Network, has determined both the number of adults needed to be vaccinated to prevent one COVID-19 associated hospitalization and the number needed to be vaccinated to prevent one COVID-19 associated emergency department (ED) visit.

By ANDREW MUKOMA

  A Zambian business executive who has been in detention, Hendricks Nyambe, has filed an application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Ad Subjiciendum, challenging his continued detention by the Zambia Police Service without a justifiable cause. 

Although infections can present with many different symptoms, one common symptom is the loss of fat and muscle, a process called wasting. Salk scientists wanted to know whether wasting was beneficial in fighting infections.

Workers making artificial-stone slabs for the most popular type of countertops sold in the United States are developing a potentially deadly, irreversible lung disease from tiny particles of toxic dust, researchers from UC San Francisco and UCLA found in the largest U.S. study of this emerging health crisis.

By RUTH YAMBAYAMBA

MORE than 1.9 million people have been experiencing severe food insecurities from October last year to March 2023 as a result of the impact of climate change.

Researchers at Stanford University and Harvard Medical School have developed tiny and ultra-flexible mesh neural probes that can be implanted into sub-100-micrometer-scale blood vessels in the brains of rodents.

A technique that uses imaging technology as a guide can make radiation therapy safer for patients with prostate cancer by helping clinicians accurately aim radiation beams at the prostate while avoiding nearby tissue in the bladder, urethra, and rectum. That is the finding of a thorough analysis of all published clinical trials of the technique, called magnetic resonance–guided daily adaptive stereotactic body radiotherapy (MRg-A-SBRT). The analysis is published online in Cancer.

Children and adolescents living in food-insecure households had a 55% higher frequency of physician visits for mental health reasons than those with adequate food supplies, according to new research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU 

THE Zambia Compulsory Standards Agency (ZCSA) has quarantined assorted products worth about K490, 000 from three provinces by for illegally being on the market.

By SHERRY CHABALA

STANBIC Bank has projected an increase in investment following Zambia’s success in clinching the debt restructuring deal with its creditors.