LONDON, England, Aug. 20 (TNSjou) -- BMJ Group issued the following news release about the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry: * * * Childhood epilepsy linked to significantly lower long term educational attainment Lowest levels of achievement among those with very early onset epilepsy Unclear if condition impairs brain function; mechanisms likely multifactorial and cumulative - Childhood epilepsy is linked to significantly poorer exam grades and long term educational attainment, with the lowest levels of academic prowess amon more PR

LONDON, England, Aug. 20 (TNSjou) -- BMJ Group issued the following news release about the Occupational & Environmental Medicine: * * * Healthy sleep patterns in mid life linked to longer working life expectancy Very disturbed or long (9+ hours) sleep may lop around 9 months off working life - Healthy sleep patterns in mid life are linked to longer working life expectancy, suggest the findings of a large study of working age men and women, published online in Occupational & Environmental Medicine. Very disturbed or long--9 or more hours-- more PR

LONDON, England, Aug. 20 (TNSjou) -- BMJ Group issued the following news release about BMJ Innovations: * * * NHS 10 Year Health Plan "risks propagating patient harm at an unprecedented scale" Due to lack of safety architecture to support envisaged digital transformation, warn experts - The NHS 10 year Health Plan "risks propagating patient harm at an unprecedented scale" due to the lack of appropriate safety architecture to support the envisaged digital transformation, warn experts in an analysis published in the online journal BMJ Innova more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The Senate Special Committee on Aging released the following testimony by Ben Winters, director of AI and privacy at the Consumer Federation of America, from a July 29, 2026, hearing entitled "The AI Deception Machine: Deepfakes, Chatbots, and the New Frontier of Senior Fraud": * * * Thank you, Chair Scott, Ranking Member Gillibrand, and Members of the Committee. My name is Ben Winters, and I am the Director of AI and Privacy at the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), one of the nation's leading non-profit consumer or more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The Democratic National Committee posted the following news release on Aug. 20, 2026: * * * ICYMI: The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Workers Are Paying More for Healthcare, and Next Year Will Be Worse Workers are expected to face the largest healthcare price increase in at least 20 years in 2027 - Donald Trump and Republicans have spiked healthcare costs for millions of Americans. First, they cut Medicaid by nearly $1 TRILLION -- the largest cut to healthcare in history -- to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-rich. Then, th more PR

MONTREAL, Quebec, Aug. 20 -- McGill University posted the following news release: * * * McGill researchers develop a more efficient way to identify when AI responses may need human review * McGill University researchers have developed a more energy-efficient method of building AI systems that are better at measuring - and indicating - their own uncertainty. This will help users determine when human oversight is needed, when additional data should be collected and when a model is being asked to work beyond the conditions it was trained for,  more PR

NEW YORK, Aug. 20 [Category: BizHospital] -- Mount Sinai Health System posted the following news release: * * * Mount Sinai Study Finds Chemotherapy-Free Treatment Shows Promise for Some Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer * Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that a chemotherapy-free combination of four targeted therapies showed encouraging results in patients with HR-positive, HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, offering a potential first-line treatment option that may be more convenient for some patien more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 21 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Can you slow the aging process? Study reveals which interventions might help A new Yale analysis found that diet, exercise, and some medications can slow the aging process, while over-the-counter supplements appear to have little effect. By Karen Guzman When Raghav Sehgal arrived at Yale as a graduate student several years ago, he wanted to explore the use of powerful computer science tools in cancer research. With an engineering background and a more PR