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When pregnant women sing to their babies or listen to music on loudspeakers during their pregnancy, babies are born with a better ability for neuronal encoding of speech sounds. This is one of the main conclusions of a study led by Professor Carles Escera, head of Brainlab—Research Group on Cognitive Science at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Barcelona, the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB (UBNeuro) and the Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute (IRSJD).

A type of cell usually characterized as the brain’s support system appears to play an important role in obsessive-compulsive disorder-related behaviors, according to new UCLA Health research published April 12 in Nature.

The past few years have seen numerous advances in the understanding of how type 1 diabetes develops and how to manage it, yet the global disease burden remains high, according to a review article published April 5 in The Lancet.

While pregnant women are at greater risk of getting sick from COVID-19, little was known about how the immune system responds to the infection during pregnancy. New research from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) has found that pregnant women display a strong immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection, comparable to that of non-pregnant women.

A camel cannot go through the eye of a needle. But researchers at ETH Zurich have now achieved something that—figuratively speaking—comes quite close. They have developed a new approach to minimally invasive surgical instruments, allowing large objects to be brought into the body through a narrow catheter. Their demonstration study has been published in the journal Nature Communications.

By NATION REPORTER

GOVERNMENT should consider limiting export permits of mealie meal to cooperatives which are beneficiaries of the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP), Kankoyo Member of Parliament Heartson Mabeta has said.

Mr Mabeta said between 2021 and 2023 Zambia exported over 800,000 metric tonnes of mealie meal to Congo by exclusively giving export permits to milling companies.

He said one metric tonne of mealie meal was 1,000 kg and with the current price of mealie meal at the border of K300 per 25kg and wholesale price of K180 in Zambia, the gross profit per 25kg of mealie meal is 120 kwacha per bag.

Mr Mabeta said Zambia could earn K3.8 billion because K120 by 32 million bags of 25 kg mealie meal is equivalent to that figure.

He said Katanga province with a population of 20 million people imported an average of 10 million by 25kg bags of mealie meal per year.

“If the 3.8 billion gross revenue is directly earned by the peasant farmers, it will encourage the farmers to grow more to earn more,” he said.

Mr Mabeta said using the increased CDF from K1.6 to K25.7 and K28.3 million, constituencies could increase the number of tractors with a ploughing disk, planter, sprayer and maize shellas to increase crop production.

He also said there was need to grade gravel roads and build small bridges to improve accessibility to production areas.

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), the transition period before dementia, have shown a tendency to go hand-in-hand with type 2 diabetes (T2D); about 45% of individuals with T2D also have MCI. Tai chi chuan is an increasingly popular multimodal mind-body exercise consisting of slow, deliberate physical movements combined with meditative practices.

Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease requires reliable and cost-effective screening methods. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now discovered that a type of sugar molecule in blood is associated with the level of tau, a protein that plays a critical role in the development of severe dementia. The study, which is published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, can pave the way for a simple screening procedure able to predict onset ten years in advance.

Esophageal cancer, which is cancer that occurs in the esophagus—a long, hollow tube that runs from your throat to your stomach—is on the rise in the U.S.

People who received $500 monthly cash payments for two years as part of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) reported improved physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of increased financial assistance, according to the final program evaluation published in the Journal of Urban Health. The findings build on interim results of the SEED program published in 2021 in which payment recipients prior to the pandemic reported steadier monthly incomes, less anxiety and stress, and an easier time securing full-time employment.