CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 17 -- The Broad Institute issued the following news release: The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has launched a pilot program, in partnership with the Cambridge Public Health Department and ProEMS ambulance service, to conduct COVID-19 testing of all residents and staff members at Cambridge's seven skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities. Across the nation, the elderly -- and especially those in nursing homes -- face the highest risk of serio  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on April 16 by Commissioner Richard Glick on a decision (Docket No. ER19-105-004) involving PJM reliability pricing model: I dissent from today's order because PJM has failed to show that its proposal will produce just and reasonable rates. Instead, today's order will only perpetuate PJM's over-procurement of capacity resources, raising customers' rates and dulling the pri  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 17 -- The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review issued the following announcement: The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) has announced the appointment of Yvette Venable as the organization's first-ever Vice President of Patient Engagement. Ms. Venable is an accomplished global health care leader, with more than 20 years' experience in patient advocacy, health policy, and biopharma communications. In this new role, she will lead ICER's enhanced p  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, April 17 -- Princeton University issued the following news release: A county-by-county analysis of the United States by Princeton University researchers suggests that rural counties with high populations of people over 60 and limited access to health care facilities could eventually be among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) that has so far killed more than 100,000 people worldwide. Counties concentrated in the western United States, the northern Mid  more

HOLYOKE, Massachusetts, April 17 -- ISO New England issued the following news release on April 16: After an extensive stakeholder process spanning several years, ISO New England filed its Energy Security Improvements (ESI) proposal with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on April 15, 2020. The ISO asks FERC to respond to this filing by November 1, 2020, and proposes that the Energy Security Improvements take effect on June 1, 2024, by which time the ISO can implement the ESI market  more