WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release on March 17, 2021: Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today participated in a Senate Finance Committee hearing entitled, "A National Tragedy: COVID-19 in the Nation's Nursing Homes," to ask what guidance the health-expert panel could provide on how and when vaccinated senior adults could receive visitors safely. He noted that Oklahoma and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) have issued some, som  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on March 17, 2021: In a Senate Finance Committee hearing covering the devastating toll COVID-19 has taken on nursing homes across the country, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse today highlighted a section of the American Rescue Plan based on his proposal to protect long-term care facility residents and staff from the virus. In the hearing, Adelina Ramos, a certified nursing assistant at the Greenvil  more

DARTMOUTH, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus issued the following news release: On April 23, twenty-one students from UMass Dartmouth will participate in the Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference, which will be held virtually this year. The conference showcases the diverse and defining research work from students in public colleges and universities across the Commonwealth. The conference speaks to both the innovation and resilience of undergr  more

LONDON, England, March 18 (TNSJou) -- The University College London issued the following news: The UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 spread rapidly in care homes in England in November and December last year, broadly reflecting its spread in the general population, according to a study by UCL researchers. The study, published as a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine, looked at positive PCR tests of care home staff and residents between October and December. It found that, among the samples it  more

CALLAGHAN, Australia, March 18 (TNSJou) -- The University of Newcastle issued the following news: Researchers from the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI), the University of Newcastle and Hunter New England Health (HNE Health) have found that for each new fast-food outlet the number of heart attacks per 100,000 people went up by four. Published in the latest edition of the Internal Medicine Journal the study aimed to determine whether the number of fast-food outlets in an area could be co  more

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, March 17 (TNSJou) -- The University of the Witwatersrand issued the following news: Findings of the SA study in the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine trial have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The NEJM, which published the study on 16 March 2021 following peer review, is the leading medical journal globally. This is a landmark study in so far as being the first to raise the alarm that, despite early successes with Covid-19 vaccines,  more