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BMJ Group: High Prevalence of Artificial Skin Lightening in Under 5s, Nigerian Survey Suggests (10)
LONDON, England, Nov. 22 (TNSjou) -- BMJ Group issued the following news release about their journal "BMJ Open":
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High prevalence of artificial skin lightening in under 5s, Nigerian survey suggests
80% of respondents' children exposed to skin bleaching products were under 2 years old
Aesthetic preferences trumped knowledge of health risks, responses indicated
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A significant proportion of under 5s in Nigeria may be being exposed to skin lightning products, if the results of a semi-urb more PR
BMJ Group: Thousands of NHS Doctors Trapped in Insecure "Gig Economy" Contracts (10)
LONDON, England, Nov. 21 (TNSjou) -- BMJ Group issued the following news release about their journal "The BMJ" on Nov. 20, 2025:
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Thousands of NHS doctors trapped in insecure "gig economy" contracts
Almost 9 in 10 trusts use contracts that deny doctors training and fair pay progression
Experts warn that the NHS is effectively "behaving like a gig economy employer"
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Thousands of locally employed doctors (LEDs) - many of them international graduates and from ethnic minority backgrounds more PR
Current Heart Attack Screening Tools Are Not Optimal and Fail to Identify Half the People Who Are at Risk (10)
NEW YORK, Nov. 21 [Category: BizHospital] -- Mount Sinai Health System posted the following news release:
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Current Heart Attack Screening Tools Are Not Optimal and Fail to Identify Half the People Who Are at Risk
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Current cardiac screening tools used to prevent heart attacks fail to identify nearly half of the people who are actually at risk of having one, according to a new study led by Mount Sinai researchers. The results, published in a brief report on November 21, in the Journal of more PR
Federal Voter Eligibility & Voter Registration Topic of CRS Report (Part 1 of 2) (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48735) on Nov. 21, 2025, entitled "Federal Voter Eligibility and Voter Registration: Overview and Issues for Congress" by American national government.
Here are excerpts:
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SUMMARY
State and local election officials engage in a variety of efforts to ensure that ineligible voters do not vote. Voter eligibility for federal elections is largely established by qualifications set forth in the more PR
Federal Voter Eligibility & Voter Registration Topic of CRS Report (Part 2 of 2) (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48735) on Nov. 21, 2025, entitled "Federal Voter Eligibility and Voter Registration - Overview and Issues for Congress:"
(Continued from Part 1 of 2)
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Enforcing Federal Voter Eligibility
Several federal laws address fraudulent voter registration and unlawful voting. These election laws may serve as a deterrent and can also provide an enforcement mechanism for instances of fraudulent vot more PR
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics DP No. 18213: Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Conjecture (10)
BONN, Germany, Nov. 22 (TNSLrpt) -- IZA - Institute of Labor Economics issued the following discussion paper (No. 18213) in Oct. 2025 by Oded Stark and Lukasz Byra entitled "Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Conjecture."
Here is the abstract:
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In "Immigration, search and redistribution: A quantitative assessment of native welfare," a paper by Battisti et al. published in the August 2018 issue of the Journal of the European Economic Association, the authors inquire about how migr more PR
Ohio State: Will My Kid Be a Pro Athlete? Study Finds What Parents Think (10)
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 21 (TNSjou) -- Ohio State University issued the following news:
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Will my kid be a pro athlete? Study finds what parents think
Most parents have realistic beliefs, but a big minority don't
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Many children grow up dreaming - or maybe even expecting - that they will become a star in football, basketball or whatever their favorite sport may be.
Most parents have more realistic expectations of their children's future athletic achievement, a new study finds. But a subst more PR
Out Now: December 2025 Issue of IFLA Journal (10)
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, Nov. 24 -- The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions issued the following news:
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Out Now: December 2025 issue of IFLA Journal
IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries.
The Journal publishes research, case studies and essays that reflect the broad spectrum of the prof more PR
Scientists Uncover How COVID-19 Variants Outsmart the Immune System (10)
NEW YORK, Nov. 21 [Category: BizHospital] -- Mount Sinai Health System posted the following news release:
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Scientists Uncover How COVID-19 Variants Outsmart the Immune System
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Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators have created the most comprehensive map to date showing how antibodies attach to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, and how viral mutations weaken that attachment. The findings, published in the November 21 online issue of Cell more PR
The evolution of the Thanksgiving meal - and how it reflects health trends (10)
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Nov. 23 -- The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation posted the following news:
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The evolution of the Thanksgiving meal - and how it reflects health trends
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If participants in America's first Thanksgiving meal could time travel to this Thursday, they wouldn't recognize what they'd find on our tables.
"That's because what the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribal members ate was a lot healthier than what most of us will be piling on our plates," said Oklahoma Medic more PR
Vehicle Geolocation Data Collection - Issues for the 119th Congress Topic of CRS Report (Part 1 of 2) (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48736) on Nov. 21, 2025, entitled "Vehicle Geolocation Data Collection: Issues for the 119th Congress" by transportation policy analyst Naseeb A. Souweidane.
Here are excerpts:
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SUMMARY
Passenger and fleet vehicles collect several types of data, including geolocation data. Vehicle geolocation data support features such as navigation, emergency response services, vehicle tracking applica more PR
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