EAST LANSING, Michigan, Jan. 28 -- Michigan State University posted the following news: * * * Ask the expert: Why smartphone addiction is a flawed idea * Smartphone addiction, also called problematic smartphone use, is a widely studied and discussed topic. A search for "smartphone addiction" on Google Scholar shows over 40,000 results, and researchers have created many tools to measure it. Studies suggest about 27% of people worldwide may show signs of smartphone addiction, and research has  more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * Data analysis finds multiple antiplatelets linked to worse outcomes after a brain bleed * Research Highlights: * Based on an analysis of a decade of hospital stroke registry data, people who had brain bleeds were more likely to die in the hospital if they were taking multiple antiplatelet medications, or medications stronger than aspirin, before the bleed. * People who  more PR

LONDON, England, Jan. 29 [Category: Arts/Cultural] -- The Museums Association posted the following news: * * * DCMS to review exclusion of national museums from new restitution rules * The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has confirmed that it will review the exclusion of national museums from new rules making it easier for charities to return cultural objects on moral grounds. The provisions, passed as part of the Charities Act 2022, were put on hold for a number of years ov more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration released the following written testimony by Simon R. Hankinson, a senior research fellow in the Center for Border Security and Immigration at the Heritage Foundation, from a Jan. 14, 2026, joint hearing with the Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism entitled "Biden's Afghan Parolee Program - A Trojan Horse With Flawed Vetting and Deadly Consequences": * * * My name is Simon Hankinson. I am the Seni more PR

HONG KONG, Jan. 29 -- The University of Hong Kong issued the following news release: * * * HKUMed leads in synergising global clinical trials data: Reviewing cardiovascular drug safety and novel clinical applications * A research team led by the Department of Medicine, under the School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has synergised impacts of worldwide clinical trial data through a series of meta-analyses on GLP-1 receptor agonists, an e more PR

MONONA, Wisconsin, Jan. 30 -- A Better Wisconsin Together, a state-based research and communications hub for progressives, posted the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Maria Lazar Reveals She's Taking Advice on Abortion from Another Right-Wing Group Lazar name-dropped the International Women's Forum * Judge Maria Lazar has been supported by well known Wisconsin-based anti-abortion groups, including garnering a 100-percent rating from a group that would outlaw all abortions, no exceptions more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Jan. 30 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2026: * * * Mike Rogers' Recent Campaigning in Florida Prompts Continued Scrutiny for Abandoning Michigan and Cashing Out in Florida After abandoning Michigan more than a decade ago, enriching himself at the expense of Michiganders, and buying a multimillion dollar Florida mansion--then coming back just to try to grab a Senate seat so he can give handouts for millionaires like himself--Mi more PR

LOUGHBOROUGH, England, Jan. 29 -- Loughborough University issued the following news release: * * * Moral people should support 'lab-grown' meat, even if they reject conventional meat - new ethics research suggests * In a new paper, philosopher Dr Josh Milburn, of Loughborough University, argues that while a morally virtuous person would likely abstain from meat produced through conventional farming, they could still reasonably support or even eat "cultivated meat" - real meat grown from anim more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * New app to detect social interactions after stroke may help improve treatment, recovery * Research Highlights: * A smartwatch used a machine learning algorithm to detect social interactions through sounds in the environment. This technology was able to measure how much social interaction occurred among stroke survivors in the hospital. * Social interaction is known to s more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 [Category: Medical] -- Optica, formerly the Optical Society, posted the following news release: * * * New device switches terahertz pulses between electric and magnetic skyrmions * On-demand control of stable toroidal vortices lays groundwork for robust wireless data encoding  WASHINGTON -Researchers have created an optical device that can generate both electric and magnetic vortex-ring-like light patterns. These structured light vortices, known as skyrmions, are highly more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * New risk assessment tool may help predict dementia after a stroke * Research Highlights: * A new risk prediction tool was able to accurately identify stroke survivors with the highest risk for developing dementia within a decade of having a stroke, according to a large study in Canada. * Factors linked with a higher risk of developing dementia after a stroke include more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Jan. 29 [Category: BizHospital] -- Northwestern Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Northwestern Medicine surgeons develop a total artificial lung system to keep a patient alive for 48 hours after removing both lungs, enabling a double-lung transplant * CHICAGO -January 29, 2026 -Surgeons and critical care specialists at Northwestern Medicine have successfully supported a critically ill patient for 48 hours after removing both lungs, an extraordinary step tak more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * Older adults' driving habits offer window into brain health, cognitive decline * Research Highlights: * A study of over 200 adults followed for five years found that greater white matter damage in the brain was linked to decreased driving, fewer trips, repetitive routes and having more driving errors, especially in those who later developed dementia. * In contrast, adul more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 [Category: Medical] -- Optica, formerly the Optical Society, posted the following news release: * * * Optica Publishing Group Announces New Editors-in-Chief for Four Journals * 29 January 2026 WASHINGTON -Optica Publishing Group is pleased to announce that Peter E. Andersen, Thomas F. Krauss, Curtis R. Menyuk, and Carsten Rockstuhl have been appointed as the new editors-in-chief of Applied Optics, Optica, Advances in Optics and Photonics, and Optics Letters, respectively more PR

LONDON, England, Jan. 29 -- The British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office issued the following news: * * * OSCE Moscow Mechanism Invocation: Georgia: January 2026 * I am delivering this statement on behalf of the following delegations: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Ukraine, the United Kingd more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * Protein buildup in brain blood vessels linked with increased 5-year risk of dementia * Research Highlights: * Cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a condition caused by the buildup of amyloid (proteins) in brain blood vessels, was associated with increased risk of developing dementia within 5 years, in a study of nearly 2 million adults in the U.S. with health insurance covera more PR

LOUGHBOROUGH, England, Jan. 29 -- Loughborough University issued the following news release: * * * Signs of Sir Terry Pratchett's dementia may have been hidden in his books - new study * Led by Loughborough University's Dr Thom Wilcockson, researchers examined the "lexical diversity" - a measure of how varied an author's word choices are - of 33 books from Pratchett's Discworld series, focusing specifically on his use of nouns and adjectives. The study found that Pratchett's language in "T more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * Stimulating the brain with electromagnetic therapy after stroke may help reduce disability * Research Highlights: * Electromagnetic network-targeted field (ENTF) therapy, which targets specific connections in the brain, combined with physical therapy, significantly reduced disability in stroke survivors after 90 days. * An analysis of two small clinical trials suggests  more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * Stroke survivors may be less lonely, have better recovery if they can share their feelings * Research Highlights: * Stroke survivors who felt they could not talk about their feelings or fears about their health with close friends or family reported feeling lonelier and had worse physical and mental recovery when assessed one year after the stroke. * Difficulty sharing t more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * Tear in inner lining of neck artery may not raise stroke risk in first 6 months of diagnosis * Research Highlights: * Adults who had a dissecting aneurysm in the neck artery wall (a cervical artery dissection or CeAD) did not have a higher risk of stroke compared to those with cervical artery dissection without a dissecting aneurysm in the first six months after diagnosi more PR

ARLINGTON, Texas, Jan. 29 -- The University of Texas Arlington campus issued the following news release: * * * Why parents turn to social media about kids' drug use * University of Texas at Arlington Professor Dana Litt contributed to a study led by Alex Russell, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, that found many parents turn to online peer advice when facing concerns about substance use among their children. While parents often value guidance from others with similar experienc more PR

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Jan. 29 (TNSjou) -- The University of Virginia issued the following research news: * * * UVA-led team finds radio signals that reveal a star's last years By Russ Bahorsky, rsb5x@virginia.edu A University of Virginia doctoral student and a team of astronomers have, for the first time, captured radio waves from a rare class of exploding star, giving them an unprecedented look into the final years of a massive star before its death in a powerful stellar explosion cal more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Whitehouse, Wyden, Colleagues Probe Collapse in IRS Investigations of Wealthy Tax Cheats Under Trump * IRS investigations into abusive tax schemes plummeted 63 percent last year to a level well below every other year in the past decade Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Angus King (I-ME), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Richard Blum more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * Women with stroke history twice as likely to have another during or soon after pregnancy * Research Highlights: * Female stroke survivors were more than twice as likely as their stroke-free counterparts to have another stroke while pregnant and in the six weeks after childbirth, according to an analysis of a large national database of electronic health records. * In add more PR