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By Prince Mabumba

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has urged those who are holding public offices to safeguard public resources from abuse.

The head of state says, doing so will help to achieve the desired development.

President Hichilema said, ministers, permanent secretaries and district commissioners should desist from squandering public resources so that Zambians can benefit.

He says, he will ensure that the fight against corruption is enhanced for the betterment of the country.

President Hichilema was speaking in Chingola when he met the clergy.

And Mr Hichilema has assured Zambians that the farming inputs for the 2023-2024 farming season will be delivered on time.

Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 1 in 5 deaths each year. It is also a risk factor for the development of cervical cancer and precancerous stages of cervical cancer. It is important to identify approaches to encourage people to quit smoking to prevent the development of cancer and improve patient outcomes in those who do smoke.

Professor Sang Yup Lee’s research team in KAIST’s Department of Biochemical Engineering has developed an advanced AI-based drug interaction prediction technology that analyzed the interaction between Paxlovid ingredients that are used as COVID-19 treatment and other prescription drugs.

A new tool that can be used to forecast the prevalence of individuals within a country that may have insufficient access to food—known as food insecurity—up to 30 days into the future is presented in a study published in Scientific Reports. The authors suggest that the tool could aid decision makers in countries at risk of food insecurity and help facilitate more timely responses.

Using a new computational approach they developed to analyze large genetic datasets from rare disease cohorts, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and colleagues have discovered previously unknown genetic causes of three rare conditions: primary lymphedema (characterized by tissue swelling), thoracic aortic aneurysm disease, and congenital deafness.

In a Phase II trial led by researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, adding ipilimumab to a neoadjuvant, or pre-surgical, combination of nivolumab plus platinum-based chemotherapy, resulted in a major pathologic response (MPR) in half of all treated patients with early-stage, resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Doug Whitney inherited the same gene mutation that gave Alzheimer’s disease to his mother, brother and generations of other relatives by the unusually young age of 50.

Most immunotherapies, which aim to boost T cell activity, work poorly in treating estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer. Targeting a different type of immune cell called macrophages could be a more effective approach, suggests a comprehensive new analysis of invasive ER+ breast cancers led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists.

What happens to older adults who do not have close family when they develop dementia? The truth is, we hardly know.

The human immunodeficiency virus HIV-1 is able to infect various tissues in humans. Once inside the cells, the virus integrates its genome into the cellular genome and establishes persistent infections. The role of the structure and organization of the host genome in HIV-1 infection is not well understood.