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A new study of more than 800,000 people has found that in the U.S., COVID “long haulers” were more likely to be older and female, with more chronic conditions than people in a comparison group who—after getting COVID—did not have diagnosed long COVID or any of the symptoms associated with long COVID. The findings are published in the March issue of Health Affairs.

While the COVID-19 pandemic upended everything in the world, it also became a powerful catalyst for innovations that made remote delivery of health care and services—including dentistry—possible.

Black Americans and white Americans may receive different benefits from their networks of friends, family ties and other relationships, according to a University of Michigan researcher.

Being able to take a quick walk to a nearby food retail store may be a significant factor in long-term weight loss after bariatric surgery, new research suggests.

Replaying prior experiences when learning something new can improve the brain’s ability to make future plans and preserve memories of the past, finds new research by UCL neuroscientists.

During the first year of the pandemic, states in the U.S. with high rates of death from COVID-19 saw significant increases in other causes of death, too, including cardiovascular disease, dementia, diabetes, and influenza. That’s according to findings from the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation published recently in the journal PLOS ONE.

The biological function of the C-reactive protein, CRP, has long been unknown. Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden now show that this protein has a beneficial function in systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE, an inflammatory disease. But this is true only for one of CRP’s two forms, according to the study published in Journal of Autoimmunity.

Nearly 270,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer each year.

 A 46-year-old teacher at a named school of Chibombo district has been arrested and charged with rape after he sexually abused his 16-year-old grade seven pupil. The suspect is believed to have sexually abused the victim twice after he intoxicated her with whiskey and she blacked out. This happened when the victim was picked by […]

UNIVERSITY of Zambia (UNZA) students on Tuesday staged a protest at Parliament over poor sanitation at the higher learning institution.

The students, who marched to Parliament buildings to seek audience with Munali Member of Parliament, Mike Mposha, complained that poor sanitation at the institution had become health hazard.

University of Zambia Students Union (UNZASU), vice president Evelyn Mkandawire said the students were tired of promises that nothing but fake.

“We are tired of not seeing change and yet they are saying that they are working on things. We are the youths who stayed hours on end queues and voted because we believed in the change that the Government promised.

“We as the University of Zambia, the highest learning institution in Zambia where His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zambia is our patron, cannot be neglected to such an extent,” Ms Mkandawire said.

She said President Hakainde Hichilema should create a platform to interact with the students so that he could appreciate the challenges that they were facing.

“We cry to God, we don’t have toilets, there is no water in the ablution blocks and we use the toilets at East Park Mall. We are tired of suffering from fungal infections and Urinary Tract Infections, these things will affect us in future,” the students chanted.

They called on Government to complete the construct of hostels at the institution, which has taken over 10 years.

Meanwhile, Mr Mposha who is Minister of Water Development and Sanitation, assured the students that the sanitation situation would be addressed.

“I was told that you are marching here and I immediately established communication with your colleagues and immediately I said I was coming here to talk to you, I have also called the Minister of Education who is actually on his way. So what we are asking is that let us have a proper meeting in the campus,” Mr Mposha said.

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Gary Nkombo pleaded with the students to return to the campus where they would be addressed.