NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (TNSJou) -- Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health issued the following news: A new national study of public water systems found that arsenic levels were not uniform across the U.S., even after implementation of the latest national regulatory standard. In the first study to assess differences in public drinking water arsenic exposures by geographic subgroups, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health confirmed there are inequalities in dr  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (TNSJou) -- The Mount Sinai Health System issued the following news release: COVID-19-positive stroke patients are more likely to experience stroke in areas of the brain that are associated with more severe strokes, to have worse outcomes, and to die in the hospital than COVID-19-negative stroke patients, according to a large, retrospective, observational study by experts from Mount Sinai Health System, published December 7 online in the journal Stroke. The study examined risk  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Dec. 9 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following feature story: On Monday, December 7, 120 sea turtles flew south thanks to Turtles Fly Too. These sea turtles were found on Cape Cod, Massachusetts beaches suffering from hypothermia and other complications in recent weeks. They will continue to receive treatment and care from seven facilities in Texas. Of the more than 500 cold-stunned sea turtles that have washed up so far this year, t  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Dec. 8: Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) sent a letter to James McHenry, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), expressing her grave concern regarding the recent decision by the Boston Immigration Court, and Immigration Courts across the country, to begin sending scheduling orders to many young people and unaccompanied children who have cases pending before the   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee issued the following testimony by Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine and senior fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research of Stanford University, as part of a video conference hearing entitled "Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution, Part II": Let me start first with some comments on how dangerous COVID-19 is at an individual level. Early in the epidemic, the   more

POKFULAM, Hong Kong, Dec. 8 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Hong Kong issued the following news release: This year, two academics from the University of Hong Kong have been presented with the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship and the Croucher Senior Medical Research Fellowship respectively by the Croucher Foundation. . They are: Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2021 Professor Jiandong HUANG (HKU) Chair Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of H  more

POKFULAM, Hong Kong, Dec. 8 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Hong Kong issued the following news release: The Croucher Foundation has presented Croucher Innovation Awards 2020, Croucher Senior Research Fellowships 2021 and Croucher Senior Medical Research Fellowship 2021 to six distinguished scholars from The University of Hong Kong (HKU), City University of Hong Kong (CityU), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) for their excel  more