WASHINGTON, April 24 (TNSjou) -- The American College of Cardiology posted the following news release: * * * Midlife Fitness Linked to Longer, Healthier Lives Study finds higher fitness in midlife tied to more years free of chronic disease and longer lifespan * How fit you are in midlife may help determine not just how long you live, but how many of those years are spent in good health, according to a new study published today in the JACC, the flagship journal of the American College of Car  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- Americans for Tax Reform posted the following commentary by John Kartch: * * * Examples of Good News Arising from Big Beautiful Bill's Full Business Expensing Provisions In addition to across-the-board tax cuts for households, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by President Trump on July 4 provides full business expensing for American businesses. In their own words, U.S. employers describe the benefits of the expensing provisions in the bill: Liberty Landscape Sup  more

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, April 23 -- Samford University issued the following news release: * * * Brock School of Business Announces 2026 Faculty Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship * Samford University's Brock School of Business announced its faculty award recipients during its 62nd annual Scholarship and Awards Ceremony, April 10. Each year, the school recognizes faculty members for excellence in the areas of teaching, research and scholarship, and service to the school. The award  more

OTTAWA, Ontario, April 24 -- The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives issued the following commentary on April 23, 2026, by senior Ottawa economist David Macdonald and senior researchers and political economists Andrew Longhurst and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood: * * * Three big ideas for Canada's federal fiscal update Parental leave and primary health care should be a top priority, while implementing a windfalls tax on the oil industry as it profiteers off of the war on Iran * Upon learning   more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on April 24, 2026, by James Lewis, distinguished fellow with the Tech Policy Program: * * * The Funhouse Mirror of Chinese Statistics China is succeeding in many fields but numbers can be misleading. Approach with caution. * Comparative statistics are a staple of analyses of the "race" with China, but there are many reasons to be careful when reading them. Many comparisons of the US and China tha  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on April 24, 2026, by Anda Bologa, senior researcher with the Tech Policy Program: * * * Russia Goes Mad MAX The Kremlin wants to copy China by creating a superapp, MAX, to dominate Russian digital life. It can only succeed through coercion. * MAX is modeled on Tencent's WeChat: a single app for messaging, public services, payments, and digital identity. The Kremlin presents the app as a matter o  more

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 24 -- The University of Notre Dame posted the following news: * * * Democracy scholar David Campbell elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences * David Campbell, the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers. Campbell was one of the 252 leaders in academia, the arts, journali  more

RARITAN, New Jersey, April 23 -- Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine issued the following news release on April 22, 2026: * * * IMAAVY(R) (nipocalimab-aahu) shows over two years of sustained disease control in a broad population with generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) Through 120 weeks of follow-up, IMAAVY delivered sustained clinical improvements and reductions in total IgG in antibody-positive adult patients including anti-AChR+ and anti-MuSK+ Patients achieving sustained minimal symp  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, April 24 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * NMiF discusses President Trump's funding cuts and potential war crimes * This week, New Mexico in Focus heads to the Institute of American Indian Arts. For the second time in as many years, the institute's future is uncertain as President Trump threatens to cut billions in funding for higher education, including more than $350 million from minority-serving programs. That puts IAIA squarely in  more

LONDON, England, April 24 (TNSjou) -- Taylor and Francis Group issued the following news: * * * Post-pandemic cycling boom in major cities, as cyclist safety improved thanks to more and better cycling infrastructure Findings of new study - released as fuel prices for motor vehicles soar internationally - include fatality rates dropping, per 10 million trips, by 88% in Paris, 82% in London and 62% in New York City * Cycling in some of the world's largest cities has continued to increase sinc  more

WASHINGTON, April 24 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48916) on April 23, 2026, entitled "Retailer Inventory and Pricing Behavior During Supply Chain Disruptions" by Michael Alan Havlin and Clare Y. Cho, industrial organization and business policy specialists. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY Recent supply chain disruptions have contributed to price increases for certain consumer goods, such as vehicles, groceries, apparel, and consumer electr  more

PARIS, France, April 25 (TNSrpt) -- Sanofi, a life sciences company, issued the following news release: * * * Sanofi's Cenrifki (tolebrutinib) recommended for EU approval by the CHMP to treat secondary progressive multiple sclerosis without relapses * Recommendation based on the HERCULES phase 3 study which demonstrated that brain-penetrant Cenrifki (tolebrutinib) significantly delayed the onset of disability progression in non-relapsing SPMS * The European Medicines Agency's Committee for   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 24 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Tennessee Bar Association posted the following commentary blog: * * * Tennessee Journalists Focus on Media Law at TBA's Reporters Workshop * Reporters from across the state gathered in Nashville today to learn about open meetings law, investigative journalism and more during the sixth annual Reporters Workshop program, produced jointly by the Tennessee Bar Association, the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters and the Tennessee Pres  more

MACAU, China, April 24 -- The University of Macau posted the following news: * * * UM develops AI platform to support TCM drug discovery for Alzheimer's disease * A research team led by Lu Jiahong, deputy director of the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences (ICMS) at the University of Macau (UM), in collaboration with Hangzhou MindRank AI Technology Co Ltd and Imperial College London in the UK, has developed an AI platform that integrates a million-compound library and multiple predictive m  more