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New research from the University of Missouri School of Medicine has established a link between western diets high in fat and sugar and the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the leading cause of chronic liver disease.

Anna Durbin was in Brazil in December 2015 when the Zika virus erupted in the country’s northeast. Although she’d flown to São Paulo to work on a dengue vaccine, Durbin returned to Baltimore preoccupied with Zika.

By NATION REPORTER

SOCIALIST Party president Dr Fred M’membe has condemned the recent violence experienced on Youth Day in Kitwe, where UPND supporters attacked PF youths.

Dr Mmembe said the violence of the UPND against their counterparts in Kitwe was barbarism that should not be tolerated by   all Zambians.

He said this was the behaviour that the UPND, as the governing party, should lead in condemning and punishing.

“Those behind that violence can easily be found. If the violence was perpetrated by PF against UPND arrests would  have been made by now. But this is what happens when you have a police that is led by officers who are selected predominantly from one region of our country and are supporters or sympathisers of the ruling party,” he said.

He said the UPND was a very violent political party and it would increasingly get more and more violent as its general political support diminished.

Dr M’membe said Zambians generally didn’t like violence and the UPND will ultimately, like the PF did, pay a very high political price for it.

“In a multiparty political dispensation we don’t all share the same views or support the same political parties. And this in itself calls for a lot of tolerance and respect for the views and rights of others to exist and be what they want to be within what the law permits,” he said.

He said in a multiparty political dispensation violence should never be deployed as a political strategy or tactic. 

All potential transplant candidates undergo medical and psychosocial evaluations, which are crucial in determining whether they can get a transplant. The latter are meant to ensure that a patient has adequate social support and is committed to following the recommendations of their medical team. Psychosocial evaluations also consider a patient’s history of misusing alcohol or other substances, as well as factors related to their mental health.

Children living in the most disadvantaged communities have a 60% greater likelihood of being diagnosed with primary hypertension, the leading risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease later in life, according to the first U.S. study of its kind, led by researchers at Nemours Children’s Health and published today (March 15) in JAMA Network Open.

Tuberculosis stands as one of the leading causes of death among young people across the world. Modeling studies suggest that in over 96% of the deadly cases involving children younger than 15 years old, the infected child did not receive treatment.

Explaining the science behind memory and memory loss—including why forgetting is a crucial property of memory, as well as strategies that help people remember better—is the subject of a new book co-authored by Professor and Chair of Psychology and Neuroscience Elizabeth A. Kensinger.

Researchers in the labs of Laurie Cutting, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor and professor of special education at the Peabody College of education and human development, and Bennett Landman, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the School of Engineering, published a study in January in Magnetic Resonance Imaging exploring a new tool for imaging the brains of neurofibromatosis type 1 patients and its significance in assessing their symptoms.

Although chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has shown potential in the treatment of hematological malignancies, its application in solid tumors is unsatisfactory due to the harsh physical barriers and immunosuppressive microenvironment.

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have achieved an important breakthrough in the development of a new and highly accurate radiotherapy treatment for cancer called FLASH RT. The new treatment is as effective as current techniques but could also prevent unnecessary damage to healthy tissue and considerably shorten the time that patients spend in the hospital.