BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 25 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New England Regional Information Office issued the following report on May 24, 2023, entitled "Connecticut Job Openings and Labor Turnover - March 2023": * * * Connecticut had 104,000 job openings in March 2023, compared to 98,000 openings in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that the job openings rate in   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 24 -- GBH issued the following news release: Buckingham Browne & Nichols School (BB&N) has earned the title of High School Quiz Show(R) State Champion. The Cambridge-based independent school rose to the top of the bracket to face Mansfield High School in the culminating match of Boston public media producer GBH's academic tournament. BB&N defeated Mansfield with a final score of 380 to 310 on the Season 14 finale, which aired on Saturday, May 20. Hosted by Boston med  more

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, May 23 (TNSres) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: A recent graduate who majored in environmental earth science at Eastern Connecticut State University won the Rankin Prize for the best undergraduate oral presentation at the recent annual meeting of the New England Estuarine Research Society (NEERS). Emily Watling's '23 research was to map and analyze the density of eelgrass, Zostera marina, in Little Narragansett Bay, RI, around Napatr  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 25 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release and letter: Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representatives Bill Keating (D-MA-9) and Seth Moulton (D-MA-5) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, urging him to exercise his authority to support installation resilience in order to provide funding for the replacement of the Cape Cod Canal Bridges, which provide the only land-based a  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 25 (TNSjou) -- Mass General Brigham issued the following news release: A new study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham has found that subanesthetic intravenous ketamine was effective and not inferior to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for the treatment of non-psychotic, treatment-resistant depression. Their results are published in the New England Journal of Medicine. "ECT has been the gold standard for treating severe depression for over 80 years," said A  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 25 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Joshua S. Levy, issued the following news release on May 24, 2023: Three men have been sentenced to decades in prison for their roles in a Cape Cod drug trafficking organization (DTO) that distributed heroin throughout the Cape Cod and Pawtucket, R.I., regions, committed a violent kidnapping recorded on video and worked together to shoot at a Hyannis man over a drug debt. Edwin Otero, 33, of Hyannis, w  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 25 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Joshua S. Levy, issued the following news release on May 24, 2023: Two men were convicted today by a federal jury in Boston for operating a large-scale international fentanyl trafficking and money laundering conspiracy. Fermin Castillo, 43, of Boston, and Andre Heraux Martinez, 24, of the Dominican Republic, were convicted following a seven-day jury trial of conspiracy to distribute over 400 grams of   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 25 -- The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston issued the following news release: On Monday, June 19, 2023, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and longstanding partner Citizens invite the community to enjoy a free open house honoring Juneteenth, the oldest nationally recognized commemoration of the ending of slavery in the U.S. Drop-in activities include art making; music, dance and poetry performances; and a City Talks discussion about the legacy and future of Juneteent  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, May 24 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee issued the following testimony by Sonya Randolph, a student at Morehouse School of Medicine, at a field roundtable meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 12, 2023, entitled "How Can We Improve Health Workforce Diversity and Address Shortages? A Conversation With Historically Black College and University Leaders and Students": * * * It is imperative that we as a country understand the significance of Black phys  more

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, May 25 (TNSjou) -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: The Chronic Hypertension and Pregnancy trial, led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, received the David Sackett Trial of the Year award from the Society for Clinical Trials. The prestigious award is given to a clinical trial that improves the lot of humankind and provides substantial and beneficial change to health care. The CHAP trial evaluated the effects of prescribing blood pressure medica  more

GLASGOW, Scotland, May 25 (TNSjou) -- The University of Glasgow issued the following news: An international clinical trial, which involved experts from Glasgow, has concluded that anticoagulation treatment could be safely started earlier than current recommended guidelines in patients following ischemic stroke with atrial fibrillation. The study - published in the New England Journal of Medicine and led by the led by the Stroke Center, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, and the University   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 25 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release and letter: United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and Representatives Bill Keating (D-MA-9) and Seth Moulton (D-MA-5) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, urging him to exercise his authority to support installation resilience in order to provide funding for the replacement of the Cape Cod Canal Bridges, which provide the only l  more