WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee issued the following statement by Mark Upton, deputy to the deputy under secretary for health at the Veterans Affairs Department, involving a hearing on Nov. 30, 2022, entitled "Native American Veterans: Ensuring Access to VA Health Care and Benefits": * * * Chairman Tester, Ranking Member Moran, and other Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting us here today to discuss our efforts to ensure that American Indian and Alaska N  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Dec. 6 (TNSfund) -- The University of Arizona's Health Science issued the following news release: Researchers from the University of Arizona Health Sciences received $7.3 million in funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to participate in "Tracking the Burden, Distribution, Impact of Post COVID-19 Conditions in Diverse Populations for Children, Adolescents, Adults," or Track PCC, a national effort to track the impact of post-COVID-19 conditions (PCC)   more

TUCSON, Arizona, Dec. 6 (TNSfund) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: Roberto Furfaro, a University of Arizona professor of systems and industrial engineering, has been awarded $4.5 million to lead the development of improved guidance, navigation and control systems for autonomous vehicles operating at hypersonic speeds. The three-year proposed research is sponsored by the Joint Hypersonic Transition Office through the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonic (UC  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Dec. 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release on Dec. 5, 2022: * * * Orbital observations unveil the presence of an enormous mantle plume pushing the surface of Mars upward and driving intense volcanic and seismic activity. * * * On Earth, shifting tectonic plates reshuffle the planet's surface and make for a dynamic interior, so the absence of such processes on Mars led many to think of it as a dead planet, where not much happened in the pas  more