| Tipoffs for Bangor, Maine (New England) Newsletter for Thursday February 12, 2026 ( 13 items ) |
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BLS: Paid Sick Leave Was Available to 80 Percent of Private Industry Workers in 2025
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document on Feb. 10, 2026, from Economics Daily:
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Paid sick leave was available to 80 percent of private industry workers in 2025
With flu season in full swing, let's examine how many U.S. workers had access to paid leave benefits last year.
Eighty percent of private industry workers had access to paid sick leave in 2025. In the Pacific census division, 98.0 percent of workers
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Canon's Cinematic Lenses and Professional Digital Imaging Solutions Support Live Broadcast at the Big Game in Santa Clara
LAKE SUCCESS, New York, Feb. 12 -- Canon USA issued the following news release:
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Canon's Cinematic Lenses and Professional Digital Imaging Solutions Support Live Broadcast at the Big Game in Santa Clara
Canon Professional Services Also Marks 30 Years of Service for Photographers
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MELVILLE, N.Y. - Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is proud to announce that the vast majorityFootnote1 of broadcast lenses utilized on the NBC live broadcast for the Big Game between
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Republican Megabill Trades Essential Support to Low-Income People for Skewed Tax Cuts
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 [Category: ThinkTank] -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following research by Brendan Duke, senior director for federal fiscal policy:
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Republican Megabill Trades Essential Support to Low-Income People for Skewed Tax Cuts
The sprawling megabill passed by the Republican-controlled Congress and signed by President Trump in July 2025 will redistribute trillions of dollars upward over the next decade, making it harder for families with modest income
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Four Seasons Hotel One Dalton Street, Boston Celebrates Fifth Consecutive Year of Forbes Travel Guide Ten-Star Recognition
TORONTO, Ontario, Feb. 11 [Category: TravelBiz] -- Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts posted the following news release:
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Four Seasons Hotel One Dalton Street, Boston Celebrates Fifth Consecutive Year of Forbes Travel Guide Ten-Star Recognition
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Four Seasons Hotel One Dalton Street, Boston has been awarded the prestigious Ten Stars in the 2026 Forbes Travel Guide Star Awards, earning Five Stars for the Hotel and Five Stars for its Spa for the fifth consecutive year. The recognition unders
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Heart preservation technique increases pool of organs available for transplant
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 11 -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news release:
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Heart preservation technique increases pool of organs available for transplant
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Vanderbilt Health has pioneered a safe and effective technique for recovering hearts for heart transplantation, according to a new study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The technique, termed REUP (rapid recovery with extended ultraoxygenated preservation), avoids
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PAN Opens Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria Copay Fund
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- The PAN Foundation issued the following news on Feb. 10, 2026:
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PAN opens chronic spontaneous urticaria copay fund
Today, the PAN Foundation opened a financial assistance copay program designed to help with out-of-pocket medication costs for eligible patients living with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU).
PAN's chronic spontaneous urticaria copay assistance program provides a grant of $2,600 for out-of-pocket expenses for covered medications. If patients need mo
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Program to Support College Access, Completion Shows Strong Success, Gets Grant Extension
STORRS, Connecticut, Feb. 11 -- The University of Connecticut posted the following news:
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Program to Support College Access, Completion Shows Strong Success, Gets Grant Extension
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An initiative centered on UConn's regional campuses to build pathways for underserved high schoolers to pursue and complete a college degree has proven so effective that its grant funding has been extended and increased.
UConn's Center for Access & Postsecondary Success (CAPS) recently was notified that its
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Scientific sleuthing solves vaccine side-effect
BEDFORD PARK, Australia, Feb. 12 -- Flinders University posted the following news:
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Scientific sleuthing solves vaccine side-effect
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New research led by Flinders University and international experts has finally uncovered how a rare blood clotting condition can occur after some COVID19 adenovirus-based vaccines or after a natural adenovirus infection.
The international research team, including experts from Flinders University and Greifswald University, found that in a small number of
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Super Bowl LX Is Second Most-Watched All-Time With Nearly 125 Million Viewers, Peaking at All-Time U.S. Record 137.8 Million Viewers Across NBC, Peacock, and Telemundo
NEW YORK, Feb. 11 [Category: BizMedia] -- NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, posted the following news:
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Super Bowl LX Is Second Most-Watched All-Time With Nearly 125 Million Viewers, Peaking at All-Time U.S. Record 137.8 Million Viewers Across NBC, Peacock, and Telemundo
Seahawks-Patriots is Most-Watched Show in History of NBC, Which Celebrates 100 Years in 2026
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NBC Sports' presentation of Super Bowl LX set an all-time media record as 137.8 million viewers watched in the second
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UNE Scientist Helps Create Artificial Joint Lining to Advance Arthritis Research
BIDDEFORD, Maine, Feb. 11 (TNSjou) -- The University of New England issued the following news:
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UNE scientist helps create artificial joint lining to advance arthritis research
Research led by a University of New England researcher that could help identify better treatments for osteoarthritis (OA) was published this fall in a leading medical journal.
The study, co-authored by Associate Professor Scott Wood, Ph.D., and published in ACS Applied Bio Materials, outlines the development of
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University of Virginia: Obesity Rates are Rising, Despite GLP-1s - What Does It Mean?
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Feb. 12 (TNSjou) -- The University of Virginia issued the following research news:
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Obesity rates are rising, despite GLP-1s. What does it mean?
By Alice Berry, aberry@virginia.edu
By 2030, nearly half of all American adults will have obesity, according to new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In every single state, researchers expect at least 35% of adults to have a body mass index of 30 or higher, the threshold that defines obesity
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URI Ph.D. Candidate Selected for Prestigious NOAA Fellowship
KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Feb. 12 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news:
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URI Ph.D. candidate selected for prestigious NOAA fellowship
Research focused on ethical and sustainable seafood markets earns Aida Pauls a spot in the competitive NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship
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Aida Pauls didn't expect a required course in socioeconomics to change her career path. While earning her master's degree in fisheries management at the University
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Yale Law School: Clinic Testifies in Support of Restoring Public Access to Vermont Criminal Court Records
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 11 -- Yale Law School issued the following news:
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Clinic Testifies in Support of Restoring Public Access to Vermont Criminal Court Records
Last week, the Constitutional Access Team of Yale Law School's Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) testified before the Vermont House Judiciary Committee in support of House Bill 572, legislation that would restore meaningful public access to criminal court records in Vermont.
Anna Selbrede, a third-year Ya
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