IRVING, Texas, Feb. 20 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release: Chicago Fire Football Club and Chicago's Very Own WGN-TV announced a multi-year partnership that will make WGN-TV the home for all locally broadcast Fire home and away matches. Coverage will begin with the 2020 season as the Club returns to Soldier Field. Of the club's 34 MLS regular season matches, all 24 local broadcasts are being carried on WGN-TV, with 18 matches in prime ti  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 20 -- Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill issued the following news release: * * * - An Act Concerning Elections includes the codification and expansion of Automatic Voter Registration, the streamlining and regulation of Election Day Registration, and the expansion of voter registration eligibility to people on parole * * * Secretary of the State Denise Merrill announced An Act Concerning Elections, her proposal for the 2020 legislative session. The prop  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 21 -- The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review issued the following announcement: The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) released a Draft Evidence Report assessing the comparative clinical effectiveness and value of treatments for cystic fibrosis. ICER's report focuses on elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (TrikaftaTM, Vertex). ICER also examined new data that has become available since its May 2018 review of three other cystic fibrosis treatments   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 21 -- The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review issued the following announcement on Feb. 20: The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) announced that it plans to assess the comparative clinical effectiveness and value of nadofaragene firadenovec (Instiladrin(R), FKD Therapies Oy and Ferring Pharmaceuticals) for the treatment of bladder cancer. Nadofaragene firadenovec has received a fast track and breakthrough therapy designation from the FDA, with  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Feb. 21 -- The Marijuana Policy Project issued the following news release: * * * - HB 1648 now heads to the Senate for consideration * * * On Thursday, the House of Representatives approved a bill (236-112) that would legalize possession and limited cultivation of cannabis for adults 21 and older in New Hampshire -- similar to Vermont's legalization law. HB 1648 now heads to the Senate for consideration. Sponsored by Rep. Carol McGuire (R-Epsom) and a bipartisan gro  more

MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 21 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: A new medication offers hope to patients with prurigo nodularis, a rare nodular skin disease that causes intense itching. "Clinicians need an effective treatment for prurigo nodularis, and a monoclonal antibody called nemolizumab has shown promising results in its initial trials," said Gil Yosipovitch, M.D., director of the Miami Itch Center and professor in the Dr. Phi  more

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Illinois, Feb. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Transportation Command issued the following news release: Fifty years ago, the initial celebration of African American/Black History Month occurred at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, from Jan. 2 to Feb. 28, 1970. Similarly, during America's bicentennial celebration in 1976, Gerald Ford became the first president to recognize African American/Black History Month, and since then, other U.S. chief executives have also d  more

BIDDEFORD, Maine, Feb. 21 -- The University of New England issued the following news release on Feb. 19: Anouar Majid, Ph.D., vice president for Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Humanities, recently presented a lecture at a meeting of the Maine Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) on the relationship between Islam and the non-Muslim West. Majid gave his address, "Islam and the West in a Turbulent World," at the Maine AFIO's Feb. 15 meeting at the Brick Store M  more