BOWIE, Maryland, April 6 (TNSfund) -- Bowie State University issued the following news release on April 5, 2023: Congressman Steny Hoyer hosted a round table discussion with students and faculty members at Bowie State today to discuss mental health issues plaguing public schools, and the five-year $5 million grant recently awarded to the university by the Department of Education (DoE) to combat the crisis. The grant is funded through the DoE's Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration  more PR

GAINESVILLE, Florida, April 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Florida issued the following news: * * * University of Florida's Center for Undergraduate Research teaches students about scholarship, studies and professionalism * * * Phong Truong's research has already brought him from Florida to Maryland to Uganda and now Switzerland, where he is currently enrolled in a Master's program at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. But it was early on, as an unde more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 7 (TNSjou) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release: A new drug, a monoclonal antibody known as enoblituzumab, is safe in men with aggressive prostate cancer and may induce clinical activity against cancer throughout the body, according to a phase 2 study led by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. If confirmed in additional studies, enoblituzumab could become the first  more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 7 (TNSjou) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release: The number of immune cells in and around kidney tumors, the amount of dead cancer tissue, and mutations to a tumor suppressor gene called PBRM1 form a biomarker signature that can predict -- before treatment begins -- how well patients with kidney cancer will respond to immunotherapy, according to new research directed by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Ki more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 5 (TNSres) -- Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health issued the following news release: * * * New tools reveal how differences in individual cells within bacterial communities help them survive--and suggest targets for overcoming drug resistance. * * * A football game can be hopelessly confusing to a non-fan, with lines of identically clad players colliding into a jumbled mass. But experienced spectators see individual players and can discrimi more PR

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 7 -- The Maryland National Guard issued the following news: By Staff Sgt. Laura Weaver, 175th Wing - Maryland Air National Guard A joint team from the Maryland National Guard facilitated a public affairs workshop for Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AFBiH) service members March 27-31 at the Army Hall in downtown Sarajevo. The workshop was conducted with the U.S. Embassy Sarajevo's Office of Defense Cooperation and the Department of Defense Nation more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, April 7 -- Gov. Wes Moore, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Governor Wes Moore announced that Delegate Kumar Barve will be appointed to the Public Service Commission. The appointment will occur after the 2023 legislative session. "I am proud to announce the selection of Delegate Kumar Barve to serve on the Public Service Commission. He is a veteran of the Maryland House of Delegates and his leadership within the Environment and Transportation Committee makes  more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 6 (TNSrpt) -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on April 5, 2023: * * * Decades of Child Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up by Church Leadership Outlined in Attorney General's Report * * * Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today released the redacted "Report on Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore," which reflects the culmination of an intensive, four-year investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse  more PR

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 6 (TNSres) -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Getting researchers on the same page is essential to science. A group led by Virginia Tech's Audrey Ruple seeks to do just that in regard to reporting guidelines for randomized controlled clinical trials involving dogs and cats, with two papers establishing the guidelines and the rationale behind those guidelines appearing in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Medicine. Ruple, the Dorothy A. and Richard G. Met more PR