ROCKVILLE, Maryland, March 4 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Society of Addiction Medicine posted the following news wrapup for March 3, 2026: * * * This Week in the ASAM Weekly Addiction has often come with a struggle. For example, a prescription epidemic born 30 years ago has become a crisis of more than just opioids ( WKRC ). Cannabis use in adolescence has come to look more like a cause of psychiatric illness rather than just an exacerbator ( JAMA Health Forum ). Even the concept more PR

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, March 4 -- Florida State University issued the following news: * * * Faculty and Staff Briefs February 2026 * Florida State University's distinguished faculty are central to the mission of the university. Faculty excellence in scholarship, research, and creative activity is critical to the quality of student learning and makes a difference in the lives of others. Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across ca more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, March 4 [Category: BizHospital] -- Cedars-Sinai, a nonprofit academic healthcare organization, posted the following news: * * * GI Cancers to Double by 2050 * Gastrointestinal cancer cases are expected to double worldwide by 2050, according to a multi-institutional study co-led by Cedars-Sinai. The projections, based on 2022 data and published in the journal Cancer, conclude that the biggest increases will be in pancreatic cancer diagnoses and colorectal cancer death more PR

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, March 4 -- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news: * * * Microbial assembly line makes plastic upcycling programmable * CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -By converting plastic waste into a microbe-friendly food source, scientists have built an upcycling pipeline that turns the waste into a variety of useful products. The findings are detailed in the journal Nature Sustainability. The team engineered the bacterium Pseudomonas putida to convert pol more PR

LONDON, Canada, March 4 (TNSjou) -- Western University issued the following news: * * * New Western research reveals how rainfall shapes bird populations Biology professor Alice Boyle studies fallout of changing climate on bird reproduction By Jeff Renaud Scientists have long focused on rising temperatures to understand how climate change is reshaping the natural world. But there's a critical blind spot in that picture: rain. A new global study reveals precipitation has been largely overloo more PR