HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 23 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Now that COVID-19 vaccines are more readily available, the next major public health challenge facing the state is getting people vaccinated. According to a recent study led by a team of researchers at the University of Hawaii Manoa College of Social Sciences as part of their Health Policy Initiative, targeted communications strategies may hold the key to encouraging more eligible people to get vac more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 25 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release: Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors joined Attorney General Josh Shapiro and 16 other state attorneys general in issuing a letter calling on U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to close the loophole in the ATF's interpretation of the federal Gun Control Act that allows criminals, domestic abusers, and other prohibited purchasers of firearms to evade common-sense gun laws and purchas more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 25 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release: Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors and a coalition of 15 attorneys general and the City of New York, took legal action to support the Biden Administration's remedy of numerous deficiencies in the risk evaluation for the widelyprevalent, highly-toxic chemical 1,4-dioxane. The risk evaluation - which was one of numerous "midnight" anti-environmental actions taken by the former Administr more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 25 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release: The Department of the Attorney General released its annual report today detailing statewide and county firearm registration statistics for calendar year 2020. A record high total of 26,122 personal/private firearm permit applications were processed statewide during 2020, marking a 62.3% increase from 16,098 applications processed in 2019. Of the applications processed in 2020, 95.8% were a more PR

OAKLAND, California, March 26 -- Kaiser Permanente issued the following news release: Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, the state's largest integrated health care provider, announced that it has partnered with Consolidated Theatres to open a mass vaccination site in Kapolei, at 890 Kamokila Blvd. Individuals who are part of phase 1c, which includes people 65 years of age and older and front-line essential workers, will have access to COVID-19 vaccination appointments at the theaters starting on March  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 24 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: While Hawaii's public high school class of 2020 achieved the highest on-time graduation rate ever recorded with 86% of students graduating on time, it also experienced the steepest decline in college enrollment over one year, with 50% for the class of 2020 enrolling in college immediately after graduation, as compared to 55% for the class of 2019. That's according to the annual College and Career  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 18 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii Cancer Center issued the following news: The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP) announced the selection of 36 publications as research highlights from EGRP-funded cancer epidemiology studies of 2020. Two of these publications used data from the University of Hawaii Cancer Center's Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) Study, a large epidemiological study that follows residents of Hawaii and Los A more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 26 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii Cancer Center issued the following news: Colorectal cancer, a cancer of the colon or rectum, is the third most frequently diagnosed cancer in the state of Hawaii, according to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center's Hawaii Tumor Registry. Approximately 717 new cases are diagnosed each year in the islands. Researchers at the UH Cancer Center have undertaken a number of initiatives that seek to decrease these alarming rates of color more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 24 (TNSPer) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The Dean of the University of Hawaii at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy has been elected a Distinguished Practitioner & Fellow by the National Academies of Practice (NAP). Carolyn Ma, PharmD, BCOP, FNAP was welcomed into the National Academies of Practice as a Class of 2021 Fellow at a virtual awards and induction ceremony held March 20, 2021. "Since the beginning of my pharmacy career more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 26 (TNSawa) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A professor of biology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo has been elected a 2021 Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Dr. Rebecca Ostertag, who is also associate chair of the Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science (TCBES) M.S. program, is elected for her "outstanding intellectual leadership in the areas of tropical forest ecology and conservation and a deep commit more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 25 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Colorectal cancer, a cancer of the colon or rectum, is the third most frequently diagnosed cancer in the state of Hawaii, according to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center's Hawaii Tumor Registry. Approximately 717 new cases are diagnosed each year in the islands. Researchers at the UH Cancer Center have undertaken a number of initiatives that seek to decrease these alarming rates of colorectal  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 23 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Researchers found something unexpected inside a rare false killer whale that stranded dead on Maui in February 2021, and it could ultimately help the endangered species. The whale was an insular false killer whale, the most critically endangered species of dolphins and whales in Hawaiian waters. While investigating it's cause of death, the University of Hawaii Marine Mammal Health and Stranding La more PR