BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 3 -- GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders issued the following news release on April 2: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled in Adoption of Daphne that the state Probate and Family Court clearly has jurisdiction to establish the parentage of a child born through gestational surrogacy in Massachusetts to an intended parent living outside the United States. Specifically, the SJC concluded there was personal and subject matter jurisdiction in the trial c  more

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, April 3 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- The University of Alabama Birmingham campus issued the following news: People are staying home to avoid the novel coronavirus, but it may linger on commonly used surfaces for longer than you think. A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine examined how long the novel coronavirus can live in the air and on certain surfaces. A virologist and an infectious diseases physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham break down what the  more

BIDDEFORD, Maine, April 3 [TNSgrants] -- The University of New England issued the following news release: The University of New England will share an $860,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) with Hood College in Maryland, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, and the Maine Department of Marine Resources to study the impact that a warming Gulf of Maine is having on lobster larvae and their success in growing to adulthood. "We'll be studying how temperature influences how larva  more

BIDDEFORD, Maine, April 3 -- The University of New England issued the following news release: The UNE Center for Excellence in Aging and Health (CEAH), led by Tom Meuser Ph.D., founding director, is bringing older adults together online in an effort to help them combat feelings of loneliness and isolation during the COVID-19 outbreak. "Isolation, particularly forced isolation, during a time when there is a lot of uncertainty, can be damaging to the emotional health of people at any age," Meuse  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 3 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine issued the following news release: A pretreatment medication for women who suffer miscarriages - called mifepristone - is not only more clinically effective when combined with the standard of care drug, but also more cost effective, according to researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. A new economic analysis found the average health c  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 3 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- The University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release: A one-year follow-up study led by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center revealed a majority of patients with mantle cell lymphoma resistant to prior therapies may benefit from treatment with CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. Findings were published in the April 1online issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The mu  more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, April 3 -- Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont, issued the following news release: Governor Phil Scott announced new steps in the State's plan to prepare for a surge in COVID-19 cases, and in turn, the need for additional hospital and medical capacity. "We continue to expand our medical surge capacity to be prepared for what could be a significant increase in medical need in our state in the coming weeks," said Governor Scott. "I want to thank everyone for stepping up in this extra  more