BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 6 -- Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that six grantees in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have been selected to receive $2.7 million to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency's Brownfields Program. These funds will aid under-served and economically disadvantaged communities around the state in assessing and cleaning up abandoned industrial and  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, May 9 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- The Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine issued the following news release on May 8: The number of people evaluated for signs of stroke at U.S. hospitals has dropped by nearly 40% during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study led by researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who analyzed stroke evaluations at more than 800 hospitals across 49 states and the District of Columbia. The findings, pub  more

NEW YORK, May 9 -- Vital Strategies issued the following statement by Senior Advisor for Science Neil Schluger: To date, hydroxychloroquine has been widely administered to COVID-19 patients but with little scientific evidence to support its use. The New England Journal of Medicine has released results from the largest study of nearly 1,400 patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 and found patients who received the drug did not fare any better than patients who did not get the drug. * * *   more