LONDON, England, April 25 (TNSjou) -- The British National Institute for Health and Care Research issued the following news: * * * Study provides important insight for the use of COVID-19 anti-viral, Paxlovid The NIHR funded and supported PANORAMIC trial has collaborated with the Canadian CanTreatCOVID study, to report new findings about the use of Paxlovid. The study teams assessed over 4,200 participants globally in these randomised trials. They found that Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir-ritonavir)  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 24 -- The Boston University School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * Global Health Partnerships in Southern Africa Put Infectious and Chronic Disease Innovation on the Map *. HIV Over the past two decades, SPH faculty in the Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology have collaborated with researchers, program implementers, and government officials in South Africa and Zambia to advance screening, prevention, and treatment for HIV, malaria, a  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee released the following testimony by Brian J. Miller, associate professor of medicine and business at the Johns Hopkins University, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, from an April 16, 2026, hearing entitled "Making Medicines More Affordable: How Competition Can Lower Drug Prices": * * * Chairman Cassidy, Ranking Member Sanders, and distinguished members of the Committee: My name is Brian Miller, a  more

WASHINGTON, April 26 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee released the following testimony by Ryan Long, director of congressional relations and senior research fellow at the Paragon Health Institute, from an April 16, 2026, hearing entitled "Making Medicines More Affordable: How Competition Can Lower Drug Prices": * * * Nonresident Senior Scholar, USC Schaeffer Institute I. INTRODUCTION Chairman Cassidy, Ranking Member Sanders, and distinguished Members of the Commi  more

VILNIUS, Lithuania, April 25 -- Electronic Information for Libraries issued the following statement on April 23, 2026: * * * Three more projects advancing no-fee OA journals in Africa Results of three projects aiming to strengthen the quality and sustainability of no-fee open access publishing in Africa * We're happy to share reports from three more projects strengthening the quality and sustainability of no-fee open access (OA) journals in Africa. Together, the three projects strengthen   more

BOULDER, Colorado, April 21 (TNSjou) -- The University of Colorado Boulder campus issued the following news: * * * A fresh take on the 'COVID generation': How the pandemic may have changed young people for the better By Lisa Marshall At the peak of the pandemic in 2021, teenagers from Sackets Harbor, New York, got certified as ambulance drivers and took over running the local emergency medical service when the usual, much older, volunteers had to step away due to COVID-19 concerns. In Los A  more