WILMINGTON, Delaware, Nov. 2 -- AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release: AstraZeneca is teaming up as an official partner of Hockey Fights Cancer(TM), a joint initiative of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) powered by the V Foundation for Cancer Research to educate and empower NHL fans and the hockey community with simple steps for their health to face cancer with courage. AstraZeneca is proud to supp  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, Nov. 4 (TNSres) -- AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release on Nov. 3, 2023: Combination of zibotentan with dapagliflozin showed statistically significant and clinically meaningful reductions in urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR), used to assess albuminuria, at 12 weeks compared with dapagliflozin alone. After 12 weeks of treatment, the Phase IIb ZENITH-CKD trial showed that the UACR difference of zibotentan/dapagliflozin versus   more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, Nov. 3 (TNSres) -- AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release on Nov. 2, 2023: Results from the real-world ZORA observational multi-country study presented today at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) 2023 shows that treating hyperkalemia (HK) with the potassium binder LOKELMA (sodium zirconium cyclosilicate) can allow patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) or heart failure (HF) to maintain their lifesaving renin-angiotensin-aldost  more

DOVER, Delaware, Nov. 2 -- Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings issued the following news release on Nov. 1, 2023: Attorney General Kathy Jennings' Consumer Protection Unit promulgated final regulations that establish clear rules of the road for the Home Improvement Services industry in Delaware. The regulations, issued pursuant to the Consumer Fraud Act, become effective today, November 1. The Regulation is based on hundreds of complaints received by the Department of Justice, and it requ  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, Nov. 4 -- Gov. John C. Carney, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on Nov. 3, 2023: Today, Governor John Carney, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) announced a $50 million Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) grant award from the U.S. Department of Transportation to Diamond State Port Corporation for the Port of Wilmington's Edgemoor terminal expansion. The PIDP is a discretionary grant program   more

MEDIA, Pennsylvania, Nov. 4 -- Delaware County Community College issued the following news release: Delaware County Community College students David Peterson and Rebecca Ludes were recently invited to attend the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Annual Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) Scholars Meeting, which was held September 14 to 16 at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Washington, D.C. Peterson, a resident of Folcroft, and Ludes, of Media, were offere  more

DOVER, Delaware, Nov. 1 (TNSres) -- Delaware Technical Community College issued the following news on Oct. 31, 2023: The theme for the 2023 Sussex County Today & Tomorrow Conference, held Oct. 26 at Delaware Technical Community College's Owens Campus in Georgetown, was "Workforce Housing: Addressing the Crisis, Identifying Solutions, and Implementing Strategies." Dr. Bobbi Barends, vice president and campus director at the Owens Campus, welcomed attendees and stressed throughout the event that  more

DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania, Nov. 2 -- Delaware Valley University issued the following news on Nov. 1, 2023: The judges for Delaware Valley University's (DelVal) fourth annual Spark Bowl were announced today. Spark Bowl, a "Shark-Tank"-like competition, will award thousands of dollars in prizes to area small businesses on November 16. Doors open at 5 p.m. to give area entrepreneurs and small businesses an opportunity to network, and the Spark Bowl event takes place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in DelVal'  more

DOVER, Delaware, Nov. 3 -- Delaware State University issued the following news: A Delaware State University education faculty member is using her expertise in special education to create a certification program in that area for the State of Delaware. The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Dr. Rachel Juergensen, DSU Assistant Professor of Special Education, a five-year grant of just over $1.06 million to develop a Delaware Special Educator Certificate Program (Project DE-SPEC). The Proje  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, Nov. 2 -- DuPont issued the following news release: DuPont (NYSE: DD) announced that today it will complete its previously announced sale of an 80.1% ownership interest in the Delrin(R) acetal homopolymer (H-POM) business to an affiliate of TJC LP (TJC) in a transaction valuing the business at $1.8 billion. At close, DuPont will receive pre-tax cash proceeds of approximately $1.28 billion which includes certain customary transaction adjustments, a note receivable of $350   more

NEWARK, Delaware, Oct. 31 -- Delmarva Power, a subsidiary of Exelon, issued the following news release: Delmarva Power is lowering its charges for gas customers by 18 percent from the current rate, beginning in November as a result of natural gas price decreases. Based on this adjusted rate, a residential gas customer, using an average of 56 CCF per month, would see a total monthly bill decrease of $16.30. The change in total cost for an individual customer will be based on their natural gas us  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, Nov. 2 -- The Hartford Financial Services Group, a property and casualty insurance, group benefits and mutual funds provider, issued the following news release on Nov. 1, 2023: Keynova Group, the principal competitive intelligence source for digital financial services firms, today announced the results of its 2023 Small Commercial Insurance Scorecard. For the fifth consecutive year, The Hartford secures first place in the Scorecard for its digital user experience catering   more

UNIVERSITY CITY, Pennsylvania, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Penn physicians and scientists will lead studies on underlying mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias with a grant from the Delaware Community Foundation * * * Building upon the expertise in dementia research and care across Penn Medicine, the health system has been awarded a $5 million grant from the Delaware Community Foun  more

DOVER, Delaware, Nov. 1 (TNSres) -- The University of Delaware issued the following news: * * * UD researchers look at mortality rate of sharks after they've been caught and released by recreational anglers in Delaware Bay * * * In the state of Delaware, recreational shark fishing is a popular pastime. Anglers are allowed to fish for sharks, and recreational fishing operations routinely offer and actively advertise half- and full-day shark fishing trips in the Delaware Bay. However, anglers   more

DOVER, Delaware, Nov. 4 -- The University of Delaware issued the following news: For the Record provides information about recent professional activities and honors of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni. Recent presentations, awards and publications include the following: Presentations Kimberly Blockett, chair and professor of Africana Studies, spoke about her new scholarly edition of Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs.   more

DOVER, Delaware, Nov. 1 (TNSres) -- The University of Delaware issued the following news: * * * 4,023 UD students took courses redesigned and taught by Provost Teaching Fellows * * * Designing a board game doesn't sound like a project you'd expect to see at the end of an introductory chemistry course, but for 2023 Excellence in Teaching honoree Professor Lauren Genova's CHEM103 course, that's exactly what some students did. Two students, Julia Stolker and Piper Priddy, worked together on thi  more

DOVER, Delaware, Nov. 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Delaware issued the following news: * * * Students share lessons learned at UD-sponsored conference * * * The fight against gender-based violence is a multi-faceted and complex issue. So when the organizers of a recent national conference about the topic held at the University of Delaware started planning the event, they intentionally took an interdisciplinary approach. The approach worked. More than 200 researchers, Delaware policymake  more

DOVER, Delaware, Oct. 31 -- The University of Delaware issued the following news: Innovative partnership between UD's College of Health Sciences and school nurses aims to address pediatric health inequities. As a school nurse in the Indian River School District, Stacy Robinson has applied her fair share of band-aids; she's handed out ice packs and dealt with lice. But the scope of the school nurse is far greater. In most Delaware schools, a single school nurse cares for hundreds, even thousan  more

DOVER, Delaware, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Delaware issued the following news: * * * UD alumni respond to 2023 survey * * * To glean a deeper understanding of the evolving relationship that University of Delaware alumni hold with their alma mater, UD conducted an alumni attitude survey in winter 2023. In this first comprehensive alumni survey since 2014, alumni shared their sentiments regarding their decision to attend UD, the factors shaping their perception of the University   more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences issued the following news: * * * Researchers at Penn are working on cracking the code behind Major League Baseball's 'Magic Mud.' * * * With the Phillies' World Series hopes dashed by the Arizona Diamondbacks, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are diverting their gaze to a lesser-known player in the baseball saga: the "magic mud." This mysterious mire, harvested from a secr  more