ANDERSON, South Carolina, April 27 -- Anderson University issued the following news release: * * * History Professor's Book Exploring Civil War Medicine Gaining Attention Since Dr. Lindsay Privette's book The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War was released this past September, it has been gaining attention in history circles. New Books Network interviewed Dr. Privette about her book April 4. Dr. Privette is a professor in the Department of Hi  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 27 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * As heart, kidney and metabolic health worsen, cancer risk may rise * Research Highlights: * Researchers studied the link between cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome (CKM syndrome) and risk of cancer. CKM syndrome refers to several connected health conditions, including heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, obesity and diabetes. * They compared people with no risk  more

LONDON, England, April 28 -- GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline), a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release on April 27, 2026: * * * Bepirovirsen accepted for priority review and granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the US FDA * Regulatory application supported by phase III B-Well trials demonstrating statistically significant and clinically meaningful functional cure rates in chronic hepatitis B * Breakthrough Therapy Designation added to Fast Track Designation, recog  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, April 28 (TNSjou) -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * Common claim that most transgender youth renounce that identity is not supported by statistics, VCU research finds The argument that studies show transgender youth desist from that identity on average has been used to support anti-gender-affirming care legislation nationwide. By Madeline Reinsel The frequently cited claim that 60% to 90% of transgender and gender-diverse children and y  more

RARITAN, New Jersey, April 28 -- Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine issued the following news release on April 27, 2026: * * * FDA approves CAPLYTA(R) (lumateperone) sNDA with robust new data supporting reduced risk of relapse in schizophrenia CAPLYTA(R) reduced relapse risk by 63 percent, with 84 percent of patients with schizophrenia relapse-free over six months Demonstrating long-term stability and a well-established safety profile consistent with previous CAPLYTA(R) studies * TITU  more

LA JOLLA, California, April 27 -- The University of California San Diego campus posted the following news: * * * The Engineer Who Taught Cells to Behave * On paper, Bernhard Palsson builds computer models. In practice, he builds a playbook to make living systems predictable enough to design and harness them for specific uses. His work bridges the industrial and the medical -from using microbes as chemical factories to predicting how pathogens will respond to antibiotics. Most people encoun  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, April 28 (TNSjou) -- Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, issued the following news release: * * * Medicaid expansion helped enrollees' long term financial health, study finds Michigan Medicaid expansion enrollees had large drops in medical debt in collections and in rates of sub-prime credit scores * Twelve years ago this spring, the first Michiganders began getting their health care coverage from the Medicaid expansion program   more

WASHINGTON, April 28 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following news release: * * * Symptom-based approach treats opioid withdrawal in newborns with minimal drug exposure NIH-funded clinical trial shows that the new approach could also decrease time in the hospital. * A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical study shows that a symptom-based treatment for babies with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS)   more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 27 -- The University of Pennsylvania posted the following news: * * * Penn announces nine 2026 Thouron Scholars * Nine University of Pennsylvania affiliates-six fourth-years and three recent graduates-have each received a 2026 Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Each Thouron Scholar receives tuition for as long as two years, as well as travel and living stipends. Penn's 2026 Thouron Scholars are Tristen Brisky, Charissa Howard,   more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 27 [Category: BizHospital] -- Cedars-Sinai, a nonprofit academic healthcare organization, posted the following news: * * * Study: New Preeclampsia Treatment May Safely Extend Pregnancy * Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators have developed and successfully tested a new treatment for pregnant women with severe early preeclampsia, a leading cause of premature birth as well as maternal and fetal death. The early-stage international study, publish  more

MERCED, California, April 27 -- The University of California Merced issued the following news: * * * UC Merced Student Makes Campus History with Goldwater Scholarship * Avinav Biswas, a third-year undergraduate majoring in biological sciences at UC Merced, has been named a 2026 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, becoming the university's first recipient of one of the nation's most prestigious undergraduate awards for students pursuing research careers in science, engineering and mathematics. The   more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 28 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health issued the following news release: * * * Targeted therapy drug shows early promise against KRAS-driven lung and pancreatic cancers Study co-led by UCLA suggests a potential new treatment approach for KRAS G12D, a key driver of lung and pancreatic cancer with few current treatment options * A first-in-human clinical trial led by an international team of researchers and published in the New England Journal of Medicine (https://www.  more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, April 28 (TNSjou) -- The University of Virginia issued the following research news: * * * Think you're allergic to penicillin? Think again By Jane Kelly, jak4g@virginia.edu Imagine you can't benefit from one of the most life-saving medical discoveries in history. Popular Science estimates penicillin, discovered in 1928, has saved more than 500 million lives. That was University of Virginia postdoctoral student Gabby Wynn's life for about 20 years. As a girl, "les  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, April 28 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following Q&A on April 27, 2026, by Tom Gresham with Tara Nikzad Joolhar, a student majoring in science and philosophy major: * * * How I found my research: Tara Nikzad Joolhar loves both the challenges and surprises she finds in the lab Joolhar, a science and philosophy major at VCU, will graduate this spring at the age of 20. A career in medicine is in her sights next. * How I found my research is an occasional se  more