WASHINGTON, May 13 -- The American Action Forum issued the following research on May 12, 2026, by health care policy analyst Nicolas Montenegro: * * * Certificate of Need: The Scope and Impact of Health Care Supply Restrictions Executive Summary * While federal policymakers establish national parameters for health care coverage and delivery systems, state-level policies that shape individual markets contribute to significant variation in health care access, quality, and costs across the coun  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, May 13 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering inducts two VCU engineers to its College of Fellows Arvind Agarwal and John Speich were honored with one of the highest professional distinctions for medical and biological engineers. By David Pulgar, VCU College of Engineering The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering inducted Arvind Agarwal, Ph.D., and John Speich, Ph  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: * * * Blumenthal Calls Out Trump's FDA for Pattern of Political Interference in Lifesaving Scientific Research U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), today wrote to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Martin Makary, raising concerns about the Trump Administration's disturbing pattern of political interfer  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released the following written testimony by Karl Jablonowski, director of science and research at Children's Health Defense, from an April 29, 2026, hearing entitled "Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals": * * * My research at Children's Health Defense has been focusing on bringing about an end to childhood epid  more

OXFORD, Ohio, May 12 -- Miami University posted the following news: * * * Computer Science Ph.D. student's research focuses on agency artificial intelligence * Videography by Zach Burnett and Cameron Johnson The artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is continuously changing, and Miami University's Computer Science department aims to lead improvements that will help our community. Originally from China, Jingyi Huang is a first-year student pursuing her doctoral degree in Computer Science  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, May 12 -- Washington University in St. Louis posted the following news: * * * Gene-edited stem cell transplant shows promise for aggressive blood cancers * For highly aggressive types of blood cancer, stem cell transplantation is often the only potentially curative therapy, yet even after a transplant, these cancers often return. Now, a clinical trial, led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, shows that a stem cell transplant in whic  more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, May 12 -- University of Virginia Health posted the following news release: * * * Major Heart Study to Improve Care for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy * A sweeping international study has identified ways to detect patients who are at serious risk of sudden death, heart failure or other dangerous outcomes from heart thickening known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The findings will help save lives while also sparing low-risk patients from unneeded heart implants. Led   more

CARLISLE, Pennsylvania, May 12 -- Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law posted the following news: * * * Professor Medha D. Makhlouf gives Nordenberg Lecture and receives Achieving Excellence Award at Pitt Law * CARLISLE-On March 17, Professor Medha D. Makhlouf delivered the annual Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine, and Society. Her lecture was titled "The Past, Present, and Future of Immigrant Access to Health Care in the United States." During a luncheon preceding the lec  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, May 13 (TNSjou) -- Portland State University issued the following news release: * * * PSU-led team develops promising drug candidate for control, elimination of malaria A Portland State University-led research team has developed a novel chemical compound that shows promise for the treatment and prevention of malaria, one of the world's deadliest diseases. Malaria, a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by Plasmodium parasites, results in approximately a quarter billion   more

WASHINGTON, May 12 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48916) entitled "Retailer Inventory and Pricing Behavior During Supply Chain Disruptions:" (Continued from Part 1 of 2) * * * Selected Policy Options for Congress Some Members of Congress have expressed concern about retailers' price increases and perceptions of price gouging, particularly during supply chain disruptions. These concerns tend to be focused on retailers of certain goods that a  more

BASEL, Switzerland, May 13 -- Roche, a biotech company, issued the following news release on May 12, 2026: * * * Roche receives CE mark for new blood test to detect Alzheimer's pathology: Elecsys(R) plasma phosphorylated-tau 217 (pTau217) * Elecsys(R) pTau217 is the first blood test for Alzheimer's disease pathology with a single assay design, intended to rule in and rule out amyloid pathology across primary and secondary care, offering faster diagnosis for millions of patients around the wor  more

SYRACUSE, New York, May 13 -- The State University of New York Upstate Medical University campus issued the following news: * * * Tiffany Bell has been named chief ambulatory officer Tiffany Bell has been named chief ambulatory officer of Upstate University Hospital. Bell succeeds Nancy Daoust, who announced her retirement earlier this year. In her current role as director of Transitional Care, Bell has led an institutional strategy to improve patient flow across the continuum, reduce readmi  more

LOS ANGELES, California, May 13 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health issued the following news release: * * * Ivermectin prescriptions more than doubled after a celebrity endorsed it as a cancer treatment on a high-profile podcast Prescriptions for the anti-parasite medication ivermectin doubled in the months following an endorsement by a celebrity during a high-profile podcast as an off-label cancer treatment, a UCLA-led study finds. The endorsement came on January 9, 2025, when actor Mel Gibson app  more

SEATTLE, Washington, May 13 (TNSjou) -- The University of Washington School of Medicine posted the following news release: * * * AI models comb patient data to predict cardiac-arrest risk Analyses of electronic health records and electrocardiograms create a path to lowering incidence of the often-fatal event. * A patient's electrocardiogram, or EKG, is shown on a monitor. Researchers have developed artificial intelligence (AI) models that can scrutinize electronic health records (EHR) and   more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 12 -- Ohio State University posted the following news: * * * Visual measure of illness perception paints a picture of quality of life * Asking patients with chronic lung illnesses to paint a picture, of sorts, that shows how they perceive the extent of their lung disease can tell clinicians as much about their symptom-related quality of life as pulmonary test results, a new study suggests. In current practice, patients answer a series of questionnaires - subjective self-  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news: * * * WATCH: In Palm Beach Hearing, Pressley Highlights Economic & Emotional Harms Borne by Epstein Survivors * "There is no amount of compensation that could ever fully account for what was stolen, but every single survivor certainly deserves much more than sympathy, and that is the work that I'm committed to doing alongside of you legislatively." As a Survivor of Sexual Abuse, Pressley Has Led Calls f  more