BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 24 (TNSjou) -- Boston University School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * New findings are the first county-level estimates of excess mortality by month in the US from March 2020 to February 2022 and are publicly available to view in an online database and interactive tool. * * * Between the first and second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, excess deaths decreased in large metropolitan counties and increased in rural counties in the United States, ac  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- The House Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets and Rural Development issued the following testimony by Olga Morales-Pate, CEO of the Rural Community Assistance Partnership Inc., involving a hearing on June 13, 2023, entitled "Stakeholder Perspectives on USDA's Rural Development Programs." USDA is the U.S. Department of Agriculture. * * * Thank you, Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member Caraveo, and members of the subcommittee for this opportunity to d  more

WASHINGTON, June 21 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Sustainable Fisheries issued the following news: * * * Celebrate 30 years of federal Atlantic shark fisheries management with new fin-tastic shark facts each week this summer! * * * You Can Teach an Old Shark New Tricks Did you know that sharks can be trained in the same way we train dogs and other animals? Sharks are highly intelligent and some species are capable complex behaviors. In the 1950  more