BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New England Regional Information Office issued the following report on Mar. 3, 2021, entitled "Women's Earnings in Massachusetts - 2019": In 2019, Massachusetts women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $1,012 or 86.5 percent of the $1,170 median usual weekly earnings of their male counterparts, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Comm  more

WATERVILLE, Maine, March 4 (TNSPer) -- Colby College issued the following news release on March 3, 2021: Colby announced today that Deborah Shufrin has been named the College's new chief investment officer. With responsibility for Colby's $1-billion investment portfolio, she will oversee the College's investment team and the strategic allocation of Colby's investments, working closely with the College's Board of Trustees Portfolio Investment Committee, Colby's president, and its chief financial  more

BOSTON, March 4 (TNSJou) -- The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute issued the following news release: An immunotherapy agent combined with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor drug significantly improved progression-free survival and reduced the risk of death compared to a single agent treatment in advanced kidney cancer patients, according to first results of a phase 3 clinical trial, CheckMate -9ER, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Recently, results from that trial led to the approval by t  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, March 3 (TNSPer) -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Tom Dingus, director of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) for 25 years and endowed professor, has announced he plans to step down from the directorship and return to the faculty. As a driving safety researcher of 35 years, Dingus has dedicated his life's work to improving and innovating roadway safety and transportation technologies. He has managed more than $800 million in external research fund  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 -- Massachusetts General Hospital issued the following news release: As the speed and scale of vaccinations against the SARS-CoV-2 virus ramps up globally, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) are calling for greater awareness and communication around a delayed injection-site reaction that can occur in some patients who have received the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine. In a letter to the editor published online in The New England Journal of Medicine (NE  more

NEW YORK, March 3 (TNSJou) -- Weill Cornell Medical College issued the following news: Soon after the first case of COVID-19 was reported in New York City in early March, a group of about 10 physician-scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine met to discuss a pressing issue: there were no known treatments for severe cases of the disease. At the time, such cases had a dangerously high chance--around 25 to 40%--of leading to death or to lasting complications like severe lung damage. At the meeting, th  more

WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts, March 3 (TNSPer) -- The New England First Amendment Coalition issued the following news release: The New England First Amendment Coalition is pleased to announce two additions to its Board of Directors: Judy Meyer, Executive Editor of the Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel; and Lisa Strattan, vice president of news for Gannett New England. "We are thrilled to have Judy and Lisa join our Board of Directors," said Justin Silverman, NEFAC's executive di  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 (TNSJou) -- Northeastern University issued the following news: Last March, as COVID-19 spread throughout the United States and lockdown policies were enacted, researchers and advocates working in domestic violence prevention noticed an odd trend. "Immediately after the lockdown, we saw a precipitous decrease in folks reaching out for help," says Margo Lindauer, associate clinical professor of law and director of the Domestic Violence Institute at Northeastern Uni  more

MIAMI, Florida, March 4 (TNSJou) -- The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine issued the following news on March 2, 2021: Zinzi Bailey, Sc.D., M.S.P.H., can still recall watching TV in her college dorm at Princeton University and seeing the anguish on the faces of people in New Orleans as they realized just how much they lost in Hurricane Katrina. The Jamaican immigrant also noticed who was hurting the most. They were brown faces, similar to hers. And she knew there were some underl  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- White House issued the following transcript of a news briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on March 3, 2021: * * * MS. PSAKI: Okay. I have a couple of items for all of you at the top. Yesterday, I discussed the President's announcement about the historic partnership between Merck and Johnson & Johnson to produce more COVID-19 vaccines. And, of course, he laid out more details yesterday afternoon. He also directed states to prioritize teachers for vaccinations in an eff  more