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Sarcomas are cancer tumors found in the bones, muscles or fatty tissue. They are a rare type of cancer seen in only one percent of cancer patients, and are complex and difficult to treat.

Immunotherapy has been shown to greatly improve survival rates for certain types of cancer. However, in some cases, it can lead to an over-activation of the immune system, which can be dangerous. In a recent review by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, potential therapies have been identified, which might make it possible to continue with immunotherapy even when facing severe side effects.

Enhanced recovery programs (ERPs) provide hospitals with the highest-quality resources to improve patient care for surgery, but many hospitals still struggle to successfully implement these programs and may need more structured resources to boost compliance rates, according to findings published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS).

Women who believe a sexual encounter with a male partner will be brief pursue orgasms less on average than those who believe they have more time, according to a Rutgers-led study. The same applies to a woman who believes that her male partner prioritizes his own pleasure during the sexual encounter.

Older patients who suffer from musculoskeletal conditions like arthritis are at greater risk of worse outcomes from conditions like cancer, heart attacks, and strokes, according to new research.  

Researchers at the National University in Singapore and colleagues in the US and China undertook a two-decade metabolic analysis of Global Burden of Disease (GBD) reports. They have published their findings in the journal Cell Metabolism.

The new dawn administration must come out clean and explain what is happening in the procurement of fertiliser.

It must assure the nation that the supply of fertiliser would be through open bidding for all companies to compete on an equal footing.

The concerns that have been raised about the purported state capture must not just be brushed aside, but should be addressed to the satisfaction of all stakeholders.

On Monday, the Daily Nation exposed a plot in which high-ranking government officials are reported to have advanced preparations for a public tender for the supply and delivery of D-Compound fertiliser which was to be awarded to a newly formed company. 

This prompted the PF’s Chilubi Member of Parliament, Mr Mulenga Fube to say “The revelations that a unilateral tender award to newly formed foreign fertiliser company without any track record is expected is a confirmation that the UPND government has been state-captured.

This company has no track record to merit this huge multi-million Kwacha contract.

The controversy that marked the supply of fertiliser during the last farming season is one sad experience that farmers would ever want to go through again.

Purely on political grounds, established fertiliser dealers were cast aside on the premise that they got their contracts illegally for being allies of the Patriotic Front government.

This politicking has also been played out in the health sector in which the Ministry of Health claimed it was cleaning the procurement chain and cancelled contracts of bona fide suppliers.

They were accused of being PF-aligned and the results are that sospitals and other health centres have gone for months without basic medicines.

Instead of open bidding to allow for fresh suppliers, the government was forced to single source new companies to deliver fertiliser, claiming that they were capable.

What the nation witnessed was the Ministry of Agriculture cajoling the so-called newly contracted companies to meet their contractual obligations as they were behind time.

The implications of that chaotic scenario were that farmers planted late, which is most likely to lead to a lower yield, thus threatening not only national but family food security.

That has not been helped by the unpredictable weather as some regions suffered from floods due to the heavy rainfall.

It now turns out, as reported by Mr Fube that the company set to be single-sourced to procure, supply and deliver D-Compound fertiliser failed to provide the commodity and was instead forced to buy last year from the local market, and repack the input for distribution to farmers.

This is the more reason why there must be a review the procurement chain and ensure that sanity returns to government administration that will be anchored on transperancy.

As the U.S. takes steps to move past the pandemic, its health care system is in a fragile financial state. At the end of 2022, about half of U.S. hospitals were in the red–making it the worst year for the industry since the start of the pandemic. No wonder, then, that hospitals are petitioning Congress for help and protesting the pending cessation of COVID funding from the federal government.

Scientists working in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at Trinity College Dublin have made an important breakthrough in understanding what goes wrong in our bodies during the progression of inflammatory diseases and—in doing so—unearthed a potential new therapeutic target.

The Department of Immigration in Mpika has nabbed the Central provincial administration driver for aiding and abetting illegal immigrants.

Department of Immigration public relations officer Namati Nshinka said the Mpika Immigration Office apprehended Clement Chilufya, aged 29 a driver under the Central Provincial Administration for aiding and abetting illegal Immigrants.

Mr Nshinka said, Chilufya was apprehended on Saturday March 4, 2023 at the Mpika Checkpoint after initially escaping from an Immigration Officer who had connected him to a Burundian national whom he had just apprehended at Puma Filling Station in Mpika.

He said upon realising that the officer was onto him, Mr Chilufya sped-off in a Toyota Hilux Registration Number ALM 9872 belonging to the Central Provincial Administration.

Mr Nshinka said the action by Mr Chilufya prompted the Immigration officer to alert the Officers at the Mpika Police Checkpoint who intercepted him and found six undocumented Burundians, bringing the number to seven.

He said Chilufya together with the seven Burundians are currently detained at Mpika Police Station pending prosecution.

Meanwhile Mr Nshinka said, the Kabwe regional Immigration office has charged three Zambians Richard Chansa aged 32 of Ndola, Gideon Banda aged 45 and Montiy Bwalya aged 34 of Kapiri Mposhi for the offence of aiding and abetting the movement of illegal immigrants contrary to Section 46(1) (a)  of the Immigration and Deportation Act No.18 of 2010 of the Laws of Zambia.

He said three were intercepted on March 1, 2023 near Lwanshimba Checkpoint aboard a Lusaka-bound mini-bus and on board were 18 Congolese adults, one Cameroonian adult and three Congolese Children.

Mr Nshinka said the have been charged with the offence of aiding and abetting while the 19 foreign adults will be charged with the offence of unlawful stay. 

He said the department in Mpika office March 3, 2023 secured the conviction of the 35-year-old Tanzanian Chovo Benno Benjamin for aiding and abetting the movement of two Ethiopian illegal immigrants.

Mr Nshinka said Mr Chovo was sentenced to two years simple imprisonment without the option of a fine.

He also said the Lusaka Regional Immigration office on March 4, 2023 removed 76 illegal immigrants from the country and Immigration Headquarters on March 3, 2023 removed 19 Ethiopian suspected victims of trafficking from the country.

 Mr Nshinka said these were 46 Burundians, 27 Tanzanians, two Rwandese and one Kenyan.