COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 2 (TNSres) -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following commentary on July 1, 2024: * * * How AI Could Help Triage Emergency Department Care By Karen Blum Anyone who has been to an emergency department for a non-life-threatening event knows the pain of waiting for hours before a bed becomes available for hospital admission for further care. Now, two studies demonstrate that using GPT-4, a large language model created by OpenAI, holds potential f  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 3 -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following news: Journalists will have new angles to pursue as the FDA begins to regulate laboratory-developed tests (LDTs), clinical analyses of human blood or tissue meant to detect diseases, conditions or infections. LDTs have sparked many news stories about the harms of poorly performing tests. These articles contributed to a "growing body of evidence" that inaccurate LDTs threaten public health, Jeff Shuren  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, July 3 -- The National Women's Law Center issued the following news release on July 2, 2024: Missouri clergy challenging the state's abortion ban as a violation of church-state separation today announced their intent to appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court the June 14 decision by St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Jason Sengheiser in Rev. Traci Blackmon v. State of Missouri. Today's announcement coincides with several key moments in the ongoing struggle for abortion and women's   more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 3 (TNSres) -- The Missouri Pork Association issued the following news release: The Missouri Pork Association, in conjunction with the University of Missouri Extension, will host the 11th annual Swine Health Symposium on July 31, 2024 at Bradford Research Farm in Columbia. The program will be held from 8:45 am to 3:50 pm, and include many educational speakers, a pulled pork lunch, and a trade show from our sponsors. Attendance is free to the first 200 applicants. Topics  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, July 3 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release: In time for Independence Day, PETA has erected a sky-high message near the aptly named town of Independence showing animals looking into the eyes of humans to remind them that every animal is someone and everyone deserves freedom--including the sentient beings whose bodies are ground up to make hot dogs. The appeal is just half a mile from Dixon's Famous Chili, whose meaty menu is a n  more