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A new ablation technology known as pulsed field ablation was successful at eliminating episodes of abnormal heart rhythms for 12 months in up to two-thirds of patients, according to a study being presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session Together With the World Congress of Cardiology.

By RUTH YAMBAYAMBA

Zambia Must Prosper Party (ZMP) is saddened that women in Zambia have continued to face various forms of marginalisation which in-turn hamper realisation of their full potential.

“What is even more worrying is that successive Governments including the current President Hakainde Hichilema’s UPND Government, have been paying lip service to the emancipation of women from all forms of oppression such as economic and political marginalisation.

In Zambia the HIV disease burden just like the crippling poverty are said to carry the face of a woman, a sad reference but a reality which has however not been taken seriously by Government to change the narrative through deliberate policies aimed at addressing the situation.

“Coupled to that is a struggling health sector beleaguered with shortages of medical supplies, equipment and staff which in-turn places a heavy burden on expectant women and others who take care of the sick in many households and health institutions,” party sposkesperson Trymore Mwenda has said.

Mr Mwenda, therefore, said a woman’s place in Zambia is one faced with challenges in accessing health care services especially in rural areas.

He said despite the country being over 58 years of independence, women in Zambia continue to die during child birth. Mr Mwenda also said, the gender based violence scourge has continued to claim many women and inflict untold misery as Government drags its feet onthe full implementation of the anti-GBV act of 2011 which contains progressive provisions like the establishment of the gender equity and equality commission.

On the economic front, he said, women continue to lag behind as most of the economic empowerment programs targeted at them offer very little to make a meaningful transformation to move them from the york of poverty to living decent lives. “In the agriculture sector women despite being the majority small scale farmers, producing the bulk of the country’s food continue to be sidelined and given meager inputs confining them to perpetual state of being unable to graduate to commercial farmer status.

As regards access to safe clean drinking water and sanitation services, women have to bear the blunt because these services are inadequate and non existent in many places forcing women to wake up early in the morning risking their lives and walk long distances to fetch water which may also not be safe clean drinking water  especially in rural areas,” he said.

High-performing athletes are often seen as the picture of health, but new Brock research is highlighting an eye-opening trend in sports that may suggest otherwise.

A new study out of Brock’s Developing Memory and Cognition Lab shows there may be more to those heartfelt requests from toddlers for “five more minutes” before heading to bed than researchers have previously understood.

Researchers at the Thoracic Surgery research group, the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, have performed a nation-wide study of patients who underwent bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement in Sweden between 2003 and 2018. The study is published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, JACC, and shows that it is less dangerous than previously believed to receive a small bioprosthetic aortic valve in relation to the patient’s size.

Attitudes to mental health conditions are often influenced by matters of awareness and belief systems. Bipolar disorder is one of the conditions that’s frequently misunderstood and stigmatized.

Australia has the potential to be the first country in the world to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health issue.

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a debilitating condition characterized by alternating states of depression (known as depressive episodes) and abnormal excitement or irritability (known as manic episodes). Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have revealed that variations in the genes present on the fatty acid desaturase (FADS) locus are linked to an increased risk of BD.

When Izzy Mokotoff’s grandfather stopped writing his weekly letters to her in the spring of 2022, she knew she had to find a solution. Parkinson’s disease had slowly been wearing down her grandfather’s central nervous system, causing tremors that were making it impossible for him to write—which was one of his favorite things to do.

Antioxidants in the roselle plant have anti-obesity properties that could help in food alternatives to current weight management medications, according to new research.