WASHINGTON, June 15 (TNSfund) -- Afterschool Alliance issued the following joint news release with New York Life Foundation on June 14, 2022: The New York Life Foundation and the Afterschool Alliance today announced $1.8 million in new grants to 40 youth development organizations across the United States. The grants will fund organizations to support middle school youth during the out-of-school-time (OST) hours. Over the six years of the Aim High program, this current group of grantees is the l  more

NEW YORK, June 16 (TNSjou) -- Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health issued the following news on June 15, 2022: A New England Journal of Medicine article reviews the evidence on the large and growing toll of air pollution and fossil fuel-driven climate change on children. Frederica Perera of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Kari Nadeau of the Stanford University School of Medicine write that protecting children's health requires that health professionals u  more

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama, June 16 (TNSres) -- Dauphin Island Sea Lab issued the following commentary: By Madeline Frey and Cy Clemo, Dorgan Lab In April 2022, we traveled from Dauphin Island to Massachusetts to participate in a research cruise with scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) on the New England shelf. Aboard the University of Rhode Island's R/V Endeavor, we sailed to the edge of the continental shelf to study how acoustic sign  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 16 (TNSres) -- The Museum of Science, Boston, issued the following news release: The Museum of Science, Boston, this week launches a new blog series on its website, dedicated to the wonders of our planet, and the urgent need to conserve it. Titled The Earth Around Us, the series blends science and non-science research to offer big-picture perspectives on the natural world with relevance to the past, present and future of New England. The first post, "Climates Have Al  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 16 (TNSpol) -- The New England Council issued the following agency statement: * * * On June 13, 2022, The New England Council's Financial Services Committee met with U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA) in Boston, following a Capitol Hill Report breakfast event. Rep. Lynch is a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee and serves as the chair of the Committee's Taskforce on Financial Technology. Council members representing a variety of financia  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following news release: A large clinical trial of people living with HIV has found that treating anal precancerous growths known as high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions, or HSIL, reduces the chance that anal cancer will develop by more than half. Results from the Anal Cancer/HSIL Outcomes Research (ANCHOR) study were published June 16 in the New England Journal of M  more

STANFORD, California, June 16 (TNSjou) -- Stanford University School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * Using a method they developed for stem cell transplants, a Stanford team has enabled children with immune disorders to receive a new immune system and a matching kidney from a parent. * * * Physicians at Stanford Medicine have developed a way to provide pediatric kidney transplants without immune-suppressing drugs. Their key innovation is a safe method to transplant the donor's i  more

STANFORD, California, June 16 (TNSjou) (TNStalk) -- The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment issued the following Q&A by Rob Jordan with Kari Nadeau, director of Stanford's Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research: Horror stories of children trapped in hot cars make headlines, but air pollution and impacts from a changing climate are more constant threats. Children are at higher risk for health changes due to these impacts for a range of reasons, including the way their bod  more

DURHAM, New Hampshire, June 16 (TNSjou) -- The University of New Hampshire issued the following news release: Land use change, like cutting down a forest to make way for agriculture, can be a major contributor to climate change by releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire studied a practice known as silvopasture which intentionally preserves trees in pastures where livestock graze. They found that compared to a completely cleared, tree-less,   more