SAN DIEGO, California, April 10 (TNSres) -- The American Association for Cancer Research issued the following news release: A blood-based machine learning assay that combines cell-free DNA (cfDNA) fragment patterns and levels of the proteins CA125 and HE4 could differentiate patients with ovarian cancer from healthy controls or patients with benign ovarian masses, according to a retrospective study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2024, held April   more

SAN DIEGO, California, April 10 (TNSres) -- The American Association for Cancer Research issued the following news release: AZD1390, an ataxia telangiectasia mutant (ATM) kinase inhibitor, demonstrated a manageable safety profile in both recurrent and newly diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM) patients when given in combination with standard-of-care radiotherapy and showed preliminary efficacy in recurrent GBM patients, according to results from a global phase I trial presented at the American Associat  more

SAN DIEGO, California, April 10 (TNSres) -- The American Association for Cancer Research issued the following news release: A video designed to educate Black men about prostate cancer resulted in 97% of surveyed participants acknowledging that Black men are at a higher risk of this disease and 93% saying they would get screened, according to a study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2024, held April 5-10. Black men have the highest incidence of pro  more

SAN DIEGO, California, April 10 (TNSres) -- The American Association for Cancer Research issued the following news release: TG4050, a personalized neoantigen vaccine, induced tumor-specific immune responses and led to low rates of disease relapse in patients with surgically resected HPV-negative head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC), according to results reported at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2024, held April 5-10. Patients with locoregional HNSCC h  more

SAN DIEGO, California, April 10 (TNSres) -- The American Association for Cancer Research issued the following news release: Certain proteogenomic signatures in the prostate cancers of men of African and European ancestries were associated with higher risk of metastasis and/or recurrence of the disease, according to a study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2024, held April 5-10. A study that combines proteomics and genomics is a field of research k  more

ALISO VIEJO, California, April 10 (TNSres) -- The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses issued the following news release: * * * Michele Pelter, director of UCSF's ECG Monitoring Research Lab, has built an international reputation for research that has improved cardiac monitoring and clinical practice and influenced the development of monitoring technology. * * * The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has named Michele Pelter, PhD, RN, FAHA, as its 2024 Distinguished   more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 10 -- CodePink, a grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, issued the following news release: CODEPINK activists disrupted Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this morning. The message was clear: Stop the complicity with Israel's genocide in Gaza! The Senate committee held the hearing to receive testimony from Austin, United S  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The Environmental Defense Fund issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today rejected challenges that sought to overturn California's long-established authority under the Clean Air Act to set its own protective standards for pollution from new cars and trucks. "California's clean car standards will save lives, protect people from the climate crisis and unhealthy air pollution, save drivers money and help create   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 10 -- KFF, an organization that says it focuses on health policy, issued the following news release: Rates of long COVID have begun to flatten. About 1 in 10 adults with COVID have reported having long COVID since rates fell in 2023, according to a KFF analysis (https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/as-recommendations-for-isolation-end-how-common-is-long-covid) of the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If the rate con  more

SANTA MONICA, California, April 10 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following commentary to The National Interest on April 9, 2024: * * * Did North Korea Really Test a Hypersonic Missile? * * * This commentary originally appeared on The National Interest on April 9, 2024. * * * By Bruce W. Bennett North Korea is working toward the deployment of hypersonic missiles that it claims could render South Korean and U.S. missile defenses useless. Still, its claims of a successful test this month appea  more

SANTA MONICA, California, April 10 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following news release: Interviews with military veterans who expressed support for extremist groups or related beliefs on a prior survey show that many experienced a significant negative event during their military service, according to a new RAND report (https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1071-4.html). Researchers found that these veterans also often faced difficulties transitioning to civilian life and sometimes share  more

SANTA MONICA, California, April 10 -- The Recording Academy issued the following news release: The Recording Academy(R) has appointed Adam Roth as Executive Vice President of Global Partnerships & Business Development, effective immediately. In this role, Roth will be responsible for growing the Recording Academy's global footprint internationally through the development and negotiation of high-impact integrated partnership programs with both globally recognized brands and local, on-the-ground   more

NEW YORK, April 10 -- LatinoJustice PRLDEF issued the following news release on April 9, 2023, nine organizations: Today, a consortium of nationally renowned civil rights organizations, legal organizations, and a law firm filed an extraordinary writ petition in the Supreme Court of California challenging the state's death penalty statute as racially discriminatory and unconstitutional under the Equal Protection guarantees of the California Constitution. This is the first time a petition of this  more

LA JOLLA, California, April 10 (TNSres) -- Sanford Burnham Prebys issued the following news release: * * * Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys demonstrated that vesicles traveling between cells in the brain carry more complete instructions for altering cellular function than previously thought * * * In findings published in Cell Reports, senior author Jerold Chun, M.D., Ph.D., and team also discovered that the biological instructions within these vesicles differed significantly in postmorte  more

MILPITAS, California, April 10 -- SEMI, an association serving the manufacturing supply chain for the electronics industry, issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: Aiming to help the global semiconductor workforce expand its skills to address the talent gap, SEMI today announced the expansion of the SEMI University learning platform to include in-person trainings. Complementing SEMI U online courses, the semiconductor curriculum is designed for technicians, engineers and non-technic  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2022 reinstatement of its waiver authorizing California to set stronger vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards and zero-emission vehicle requirements than the federal government. 17 other states and D.C. have adopted California's standards. The Sierra Club, co-counseled with Ea  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 10 -- The Television Academy Foundation issued the following news release on April 9, 2023: The Television Academy Foundation, dedicated to preserving the legacy of television while educating those who will shape its future, today announced that Tina Perry, president of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, has been elected chair of the nonprofit, finishing out the 2024 term, effective immediately. OWN president since 2019, Perry oversees the operational and creative areas  more