WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Sept. 23 (TNSres) -- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist issued the following news release: Implementing a portfolio of programs and policies to reduce intergenerational poverty would yield a high payoff for children and the entire nation, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report examines the key drivers of intergenerational poverty in the U.S. and concludes that evidence-based policies - such as increasing K-1  more

WOONSOCKET, Rhode Island, Sept. 22 (TNSres) -- CVS Health issued the following news release: CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS) has appointed Michael F. Mahoney, Chairman and CEO of Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX), a global medical technology leader, to serve on the Board of Directors (the "Board") of CVS Health, effective November 1. "Mike's focus throughout his career - to drive improvements in health outcomes and increase access to care - align with our mission at CVS Health," sai  more

HIGH POINT, North Carolina, Sept. 21 -- High Point University issued the following news release: High Point University is welcoming 16 recent college graduates as AmeriCorps VISTAs (Volunteers in Service to America) to dedicate a year of service in the city of High Point. This is the largest group ever in HPU's 11 years of hosting VISTAs to provide thousands of hours of service to local organizations. This year's cohort has nearly doubled in number, growing from nine to 16. Each VISTA works wi  more

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, Sept. 22 -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2023: Today, the Texas A&M Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture (IHA) and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' Center on Global Food and Agriculture (Chicago Council) announced members for the three committees that will work with The Responsive Agriculture Task Force to develop a national roadmap for responsive agriculture solu  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: A $72.5 million investment from the U.S. National Science Foundation will drive the design, discovery and development of advanced materials needed to address major societal challenges. The Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program will fund 37 new four-year projects. The DMREF program brings together a wide range of disciplines -- including materials research,   more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Sept. 23 (TNSres) -- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist issued the following news release on Sept. 21, 2023: Being diagnosed with a serious illness such as cancer brings many physical, emotional and financial burdens, not only for patients, but for their caregivers as well. However, a new study from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that caregivers of adult cancer patients are often overlooked in cancer care. The study was published on  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- Wake Forest University issued the following news: * * * Project will help fill science gaps in tropical forest ecosystems * * * Wake Forest graduate student David Carchipulla-Morales is fascinated with tropical montane cloud forests. He grew up in Ecuador where they are part of this small country's landscape. "The beauty and complexity of these tropical forests that are also home to mountains have always sparked an interest in learning mor  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Sept. 23 (TNSres) -- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist issued the following news release: Wake Forest University School of Medicine has received $495,000 from the Doris Duke Foundation to provide mentored research funding and time protection to early career physician-scientists to help them advance clinically significant research. Atalie Thompson, M.D., MPH, an assistant professor of ophthalmology and gerontology and geriatric medicine at Wake Forest University S  more