CHICAGO, Illinois, April 30 (TNSjou) -- The American College of Surgeons issued the following news release: * * * Optimizing Exercise, Nutrition Before Surgery Boosts Patient Outcomes Programs that support patients' health before surgery reduce length of hospital stays and complications, review shows Key Takeaways * Prehabilitation is an emerging approach in medicine that provides patients with exercise, nutrition, and other support before surgery to improve their health. * Prehabilitation  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, April 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Society of Addiction Medicine posted the following news wrap up: * * * The ASAM Weekly for April 28, 2026 Guest Editorial - New Standards for Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Care By Corey Waller, MD, MS, FACEP, DFASAM; Sandra Gomez-Luna, MD, FAPA, DFASAM; Lisa R. Fortuna, MD, MPH, MDiv; Scott E. Hadland, MD, MPH, FASAM; Peter Metz, MD, DLFAACAP, LFAPA If we hope to improve our response to the addiction and overdose cr  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: * * * Booker Introduces Legislation to Review and Unwind Anticompetitive Corporate Mergers Approved Under Second Trump Administration U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, has introduced legislation to restore integrity and independence to federal antitrust enforcement. The Correcting Lapsed Enforcement  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on April 28, 2026, by non-resident senior fellows Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan: * * * Putin's Censors Lashed by Popular Rage Russians are willing to tolerate a lot, but there's a limit. As the country's internet regulators are discovering. * Russians are angry. Very angry. That's because the regime has imposed sweeping internet blocks that are now disrupting everyday services from payments i  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet released the following testimony by Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid from an April 21, 2026, hearing entitled "Protecting U.S. Leadership in Codes Development and Enhancing Public Access": * * * Chairman, Ranking Member, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss Protecting U.S. Lead  more

VICKSBURG, Mississippi, April 30 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center issued the following news story: * * * ERDC study reveals pathway to breakdown "forever chemicals" By Justus Reed, Public Affairs Specialist, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center A study on breaking down PFAS molecules conducted by two researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) was recently published in a leading, peer-reviewed scientific jou  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 28 -- The University of Baltimore posted the following news: * * * Exploring the Forces Shaping Youth Sports In the latest episode of More Than Play: A Discussion with Professor Dionne Koller About Youth Sports, Professor Dionne Koller joins hosts Dr. Brian Feeley and Dr. Nirav Pandya to examine how law, policy, and politics influence the national youth sports landscape. Drawing on her recent book, More Than Play, Professor Koller offers insight into the structura  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 29 [Category: BizHospital] -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia issued the following news release: * * * Immune Cells Rewire Themselves to Keep Battling Tumors in Nutrient Poor Environments * Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pathology and Laboratory Medicine researchers uncovered how killer T cells - called CD8+ T cells - keep fighting inside tumors, where nutrients are scarce and conditions are harsh. The team found that rather than simply powering dow  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- The Jamestown Foundation posted the following commentary on April 28, 2026, by Taras Kuzio, professor of political science at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and an associate research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, in the foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor: * * * Ukrainian Military Offers Lessons Learned to NATO (Part Three) Executive Summary: * Russia's war against Ukraine has shown how drones are reshaping warfare. Drone-saturated battlefields c  more

ROCHESTER, Minnesota, April 29 [Category: BizHospital] -- The Mayo Clinic issued the following news release: * * * Mayo Clinic study finds remote monitoring may detect early complications, reduce burden for lung transplant patients * ROCHESTER, Minn. -In a study published in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation Open (JHLT Open), Mayo Clinic researchers found that remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a feasible and effective way to detect early health changes and support care decisions  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * Methamphetamine use linked to 1 in 6 heart attacks in California study * Research Highlights: * Methamphetamine (meth) use accounted for about 1 in 6 heart attacks among adults treated at one Northern California hospital over a 10-year period. * Meth users who had a heart attack were often younger adults or males. Their heart attacks were less likely to be caused by tr  more

BIRMINGHAM, England, April 29 -- The University of Nottingham issued the following news release: * * * MRI reveals how the placenta contracts during pregnancy A new study has given insights into placental contractions during pregnancy, using MRI imaging to show how placental and uterine contractions can be distinguished, and how frequent and long lasting they are.  This new research builds on previous work conducted by researchers from the University of Nottingham's School of Physics and As  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, April 29 -- The University of Rhode Island posted the following news: * * * New linguistic professor putting Rhode Island on the language map Moving from Texas to Rhode Island, a new faculty member in the University of Rhode Island's College of Education says Rhode Island's language diversity extends far beyond the state's diminutive size. The lead author of a new article examining the linguistic landscapes in Rhode Island and along the U.S./Mexico border in the journa  more

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, April 29 (TNSjou) -- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news: * * * Social media promotion, ease of access increase risk of adolescent inhalant misuse Two new studies offer insight into the factors that coincide with adolescent inhalant use in the U.S., a dangerous pastime that can have lifelong -or life-ending -consequences. The first report, described in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, found that millions of Americans w  more