RICHMOND, Virginia, Oct. 9 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * Oct. 8, 2026 Addiction care for pregnant and postpartum women brings experts and lawmakers to VCU event The Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies spotlights substance use policy in Virginia. By Amelia Heymann Mandie Bishop was struggling with addiction. Already a mom, and learning she was pregnant again, she decided to go to the hospital to get help - and her children were then taken from her. The separation depleted her motivation. Bishop sa more PR

RICHMOND, Virginia, Oct. 9 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * Oct. 8, 2026 'Doomsday cults' and the Silicon Valley debate over AI's threat to humanity VCU professor Caddie Alford clarifies the voices that seem to conflict but often overlap on the future of AI and explains how the discussion's roots can be traced to the 1940s. - The conversation about artificial intelligence took on new shape recently after artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned from Anthropic, citing concerns abo more PR

RICHMOND, Virginia, Oct. 9 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * Oct. 8, 2026 New dry powder system aims to deliver two treatments to the lungs at once A VCU Commercialization Fund award will help Michael Hindle and P. Worth Longest test a platform that repairs the lung's surfactant layer while delivering a drug to the same tissue. By John Battiston Inhaled medicine sounds like it should be the simplest kind of medicine there is. You breathe it in, and it goes where it needs to go. It usually doesn't. The r more PR