ITHACA, New York, Nov. 14 -- Cornell University issued the following news: In patients with severe artery blockage in the lower leg, an artery-supporting device called a resorbable scaffold is superior to angioplasty, according to the results of a large international clinical trial co-led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian. Angioplasty, which has been the standard treatment, involves the widening of a narrowed artery with a small, balloon-like mechanism. A resorb  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Nov. 15 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 14, 2023, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Northeast Region - October 2023": * * * Area prices unchanged over the past month, up 2.7 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Northeast Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), were unchanged in October, the U.S. Bureau o  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * Nurse practitioners are a type of registered nurse with specialized graduate education of at least a master's degree. Although their duties vary by state, nurse practitioners in many states can work independently and provide some of the same services as physicians, including conducting physical examinations, ordering laboratory tests, prescribing m  more

BUCHANAN, New York, Nov. 15 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release on Nov. 14, 2023: Today, activists rallied outside the shuttered Indian Point nuclear plant in Peekskill, calling on Governor Hochul to stop the latest proposed expansion of the area's Algonquin Pipeline. In 2016, three activists were arrested at the very same site for blocking construction of a 42-inch pipeline constructed as part of the Algonquin Incremental Pipeline Expansion. In addition, two older 30-  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 15 -- Greenberg Traurig, a law firm, issued the following news release: David C. Fixler, of counsel in Greenberg Traurig LLP's Energy & Natural Resources Practice in Boston, co-chaired the 2023 Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (NECA)'s Power Markets Conference Nov. 13 in Waltham, Massachusetts. The event focused on design options for New England's energy, ancillary services, and capacity markets, and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of different op  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: ST. LOUIS - A man from St. Louis County, Missouri, on Monday admitted dealing fentanyl and shooting a 16-year-old with a fully automatic pistol in downtown St. Louis in 2022. John M. Whitney Jr., 21, of Bridgeton, pleaded guilty in front of U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp to one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl an  more

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, Nov. 15 -- National Grid, an electricity and natural gas delivery company, issued the following news release on Nov. 14, 2023: National Grid today announced that 16 small businesses from across Massachusetts have been selected to receive the first $10,000 capacity building grants of a three-year Small Business Impact Initiative in partnership with Amplify Latinx, the Asian Business Empowerment Council, the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts LG  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: NEW YORK, N.Y. - Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the conviction in Manhattan federal court of OMAR Lopez Castro for his participation in a cocaine trafficking scheme between 2018 and 2022. The jury convicted Lopez Castro following a one-week trial before U.S. District Judge P. Kevin  more