LOS ANGELES, California, April 22 -- The UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center issued the following news release: * * * Dr. Aditya Bardia elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation Dr. Aditya Bardia, professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of Translational Research Integration at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, one of the highest honors in academic medicine. Each year, the organization sel more PR

EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin, April 21 -- The University of Wisconsin Eau Claire campus posted the following news: * * * Blugold published in national journal, continues to improve patient care * One of the first projects he was assigned to recently celebrated a major milestone, as a peer-reviewed manuscript on Colon-Pilot, an artificial intelligence tool for automated colonoscopy surveillance, was accepted for publication in The American Journal of Gastroenterology. Mau's name appears second on the author list alongside several respected physicia more PR

NEW YORK, April 21 [Category: BizHospital] -- NYU Langone Health, an academic medical center affiliated with New York University, posted the following news release: * * * Early Immune Changes May Signal Increased Risk of Alzheimer's & Dementia * Circulating white blood cells called neutrophils are some of the immune system's first responders. Their numbers shoot up during infection and inflammation, shifting the ratio of neutrophils to other types of immune cells in the blood. This ratio, called the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), is more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Jules "Jay" W. Hurst III, acting undersecretary of defense comptroller and CFO, and Lt. Gen. Steven P. Whitney, director for force structure, resources and assessment of the U.S. Department of War Joint Staff, held a press briefing at the Pentagon to detail the fiscal year 2027 defense budget request. Hurst announced a $1.5 trillion proposal aimed at supercharging the defense industrial base and expanding production of major weapons systems across every warfighting domain. The plan includes the largest investment in dr more PR

DENVER, Colorado, April 20 -- The University of Colorado posted the following news: * * * Honoring Impact at the 2026 Regent Awards Ceremony * Every year, the CU Denver Regent Awards showcase individuals who-through their contributions to the CU community, state, nation, and world-help support the university as a place where students can meet their moments. This year, two individuals earned honors at a ceremony on Thursday, April 16, hosted by CU Denver at The Slate Hotel in downtown Denver. Leaders from the CU system and CU Denver, inclu more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 21 -- The University of Pennsylvania posted the following news: * * * How a free medical telesimulation platform is saving children's lives * The mortality rate for sepsis among children in Kumasi, Ghana, is much higher than in higher-resource settings, and researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the University of Pennsylvania, and Ghana identified lack of training as a key barrier to administering critical medical services in time. To train Ghanian providers on how to recognize and m more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 [Category: Medical] -- The Endocrine Society posted the following news release: * * * Keto diet may improve beta cell function in people with type 2 diabetes * People with type 2 diabetes on a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet may have a better chance of reversing their diabetes than those on a low-fat diet, according to a small study published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.  Type 2 diabetes is a disease where the beta cells in the pancreas cannot secrete enough insulin to control blood sugar. "We showed that more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 21 [Category: Health Care] (TNSrpt) -- The Alzheimer's Association posted the following news release: * * * New Alzheimer's Association Report: Americans Care Deeply About Brain Health but Most Don't Know How to Maintain It * Key Takeaways * Nearly nine in 10 U.S. adults (88%) say maintaining brain health as they age is very important, and 99% say it is at least as important as physical health. * Yet only 9% say they know a lot about how to maintain their brain health. * The number of people living with cli more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 [Category: Health Care] -- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine posted the following news release: * * * Physicians Committee Has Given Grants to Farmers Who Are Growing Health-Promoting Fruits and Veggies While Phasing Out Animal Agriculture * The Physicians Committee, a nonprofit public health advocacy organization with 17,000 doctor members, has given grants to assist farmers who are growing health-promoting foods like leafy greens and berries while phasing out animal agriculture. Launched in November 2024,  more PR

CARLISLE, Pennsylvania, April 21 -- Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law posted the following news: * * * Professor Lucy Johnston-Walsh's article being published by South Carolina Law Review * CARLISLE, PA-"Unseen Disruption: School Instability and the Best Interests of Youth in Foster Care," written by Professor Lucy Johnston-Walsh, has been accepted for publication by the South Carolina Law Review. The article explores the legal and social issues that youth involved in the foster care experience when their education is di more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 [Category: Medical] -- Optica, formerly the Optical Society, posted the following news release: * * * Researchers combine polarized light and a magnetic field to spot malaria under the microscope Label-free approach enables faster, more objective detection of malaria parasites in blood while also providing quantitative information  Researchers have developed a new microscopy method that uses a magnetic field and polarized light to provide quantitative measurements that could enable faster and more objective detection o more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, April 22 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center issued the following news release: * * * Cellular neighborhoods inside tumors may predict which patients with melanoma benefit from combination immunotherapy UCLA-led study identifies immune patterns linked to response after anti-PD-1 treatment fails * A new UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center study suggests that the way immune cells are organized inside melanoma tumors may help researchers better understand which patients will ben more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, April 22 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health issued the following news release: * * * Federal housing assistance may lead to improved two-year survival among older people with prostate cancer Older men with prostate cancer who receive federal housing assistance at the time they are first diagnosed have better two-year survival chances compared to demographically and clinically similar men without that assistance, new UCLA-led research suggests. The findings (https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djag099), published in the peer-revie more PR

BRISTOL, England, April 21 -- The University of Bristol issued the following news release: * * * A single stab wound kills at least two school-aged children every month * The research, published in Emergency Medicine and Frontiers in Sociology [20 April], reveal a concerning rise in knife-related fatalities among children under 17, from 21 deaths in 2019/20 to 36 in 2023/24, and highlight the social and environmental factors that put young people at risk. In the Emergency Medicine Journal study, researchers from Bristol Medical School exa more PR