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Released: 8-Aug-2022 2:15 PM EDT
Commercial satellite race raises calls for more regulations
Flinders University

Rapidly evolving technology and space debris reported in several places around the world – including pieces of a Chinese Long March 5B Rocket in the Indian Ocean – signal the need for a new era for regulation of space, Flinders University experts say.

Released: 8-Aug-2022 7:05 AM EDT
Cut tax incentives and multinational firms will cut investment and employment
University of Iowa Tippie College of Business

A new study from the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business finds that when the European Union overruled tax incentives offered by four European countries to U.S. multinationals, subsidiaries of those firms reduced their investment by an average of $7.6 million.

Released: 7-Aug-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Endocrine Society celebrates passage of historic insulin affordability measure
Endocrine Society

The Endocrine Society cheered the Senate’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, including meaningful measures to make insulin more affordable.

Released: 5-Aug-2022 6:05 PM EDT
New York National Guard COVID response is now the largest domestic mobilization in U.S. history
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health

Beginning in early March 2020, military forces in the State of New York, comprising the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Naval Militia, and State Guard, with contributions from the Army Corps of Engineers, mobilized to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

Newswise: Gov. Abbott Appoints TTUHSC El Paso Assistant Professor to Correctional Managed Health Care Committee
Released: 4-Aug-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Gov. Abbott Appoints TTUHSC El Paso Assistant Professor to Correctional Managed Health Care Committee
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso

Dr. Edwards is an assistant professor at TTUHSC El Paso’s Foster School of Medicine, where he serves as program director of the Internal Medicine/Psychiatry Residency Program and associate program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. In addition to his role at TTUHSC El Paso, Dr. Edwards is a practicing internist at Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso where he delivers world-class patient care at its Alberta location. He specializes in diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, joint pain, lower back pain, chronic heart disease, seasonal allergies, upper respiratory infections, hypothyroidism, preventative health care, urinary tract infections, depression, heartburn (GERD), asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Released: 4-Aug-2022 3:15 PM EDT
Utah’s Consumer Sentiment continues to fall in July
University of Utah

Utah’s consumer sentiment fell in July, according to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute’s Survey of Utah Consumers.

Released: 4-Aug-2022 1:20 PM EDT
Does China’s research and development funding reach the right firms?
Yale University

Chinese investments in research and development (R&D) have burgeoned since the turn of the century, increasing more than tenfold in absolute terms since 2000 and reaching a high of 2.4 percent of GDP in 2020.

   
Released: 4-Aug-2022 9:00 AM EDT
Study examines voters’ threshold for transgressions by political candidates
University of Illinois Chicago

University of Illinois Chicago researchers explore voters' decisions when they learn their favored candidates have committed moral transgressions

Released: 3-Aug-2022 3:20 PM EDT
World-first study reveals physical toll on law enforcement recruits
Edith Cowan University

For the first time, a new study has identified the number and type of injuries commonly experienced by police recruits whilst undergoing their academy training, an important step towards ensuring new officers can in the future meet physical standards whilst reducing the risk of injury.

   
Released: 3-Aug-2022 9:00 AM EDT
American Society of Nephrology Strongly Supports Congressional Oversight of Transplant System
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) supports efforts by Congress to improve the US transplant system. Today, the Senate Finance Committee will conduct an oversight hearing, A System in Need of Repair: Addressing Organizational Failures of the U.S.’s Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).

Newswise: Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan bears ‘enormous symbolic significance’
Released: 2-Aug-2022 7:05 PM EDT
Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan bears ‘enormous symbolic significance’
University of Miami

University of Miami Chinese scholar and defense expert June Teufel Dreyer assessed the motivations and implications of the visit by the Speaker of the House to Taiwan, one of the stops on her congressional delegation tour.

Released: 2-Aug-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Wildfires are intensifying around the world. Here are the latest headlines in wildfires research for media
Newswise

California’s McKinney Fire grew to become the state’s largest fire so far this year. The risk of wildfire is rising globally due to climate change. Below are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Wildfires channel on Newswise.

       
Released: 2-Aug-2022 10:25 AM EDT
Sliding Backwards in Obesity Care: Workers See Broad Reductions and Plateauing Coverage in State-Employee Health Plans
George Washington University

New research published in Obesity has found that multiple state employee healthcare plans have reduced obesity treatment services for workers in the past five years. Conducted by the STOP Obesity Alliance at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, this paper provides a stark contrast to STOP’s previous research that demonstrated a promising upward trend between 2009-2017 in obesity care coverage by state insurance plans.

   
Released: 1-Aug-2022 6:05 PM EDT
Highly partisan U.S. election administration should become nonpartisan to preserve democracy, new report recommends
Arizona State University (ASU)

Election Administration In America – Partisan by Design, a recently released report from the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy at Arizona State University and Open Primaries, a national election reform organization, indicates electoral codes in the United States are rife with rules for how the two major parties – Republican and Democratic – prioritize their power at the exclusion of everyone else.

Released: 1-Aug-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Services combine for homeless solution
Flinders University

The majority of 575 people in South Australia with a history of chronic homelessness have found stable housing and are well on the way to a better life after three years of intensive support under the ‘Aspire’ program – Australia’s first social impact bond targeting homelessness.

Released: 28-Jul-2022 3:40 PM EDT
ACR Statement on Access to Reproductive Healthcare
American College of Rheumatology (ACR)

The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) is deeply concerned about the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling because it negatively impacts the practice of rheumatology.

Released: 28-Jul-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Party Animals: A New Study on Retirement Timing by Federal Judges
American Sociological Association (ASA)

Recent high-profile court decisions have renewed claims that federal judges are “politicians in robes” rather than disinterested courtroom umpires. Researchers long ago turned to the “politicized departure hypothesis” (PDH) to test political behavior by judges. The authors of this new research observe that previously unnoticed data patterns permit new statistical tests to help determine if federal judges are influenced by politics while in office.

Newswise: New Missing Persons Website and Podcast Launched
Released: 28-Jul-2022 7:05 AM EDT
New Missing Persons Website and Podcast Launched
University of Portsmouth

A new website and podcast series are launching today (28 July) to tackle the myths and misunderstandings around missing persons issues.

Released: 27-Jul-2022 6:05 PM EDT
House Panel Advances Prior Authorization Relief Bill
American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)

The House Ways and Means Committee today voted unanimously to advance the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2022 (H.R. 8487), positioning the bill for passage in Congress possibly this fall.

Newswise: To Tax or Not to Tax, Is That Even a Question?
Released: 26-Jul-2022 8:05 PM EDT
To Tax or Not to Tax, Is That Even a Question?
Kyoto University

A solution is proposed for evaluating tax efficiency, a formula expressing the marginal cost of public funds as a ratio of a net loss in social surplus to a net increase in tax revenue. This formula is derived from only a few indices, common across specific market demand conditions and cost factors. The indices clearly tell us how the degree of tax-driven social burden relates to imperfect competition.

Released: 22-Jul-2022 5:30 PM EDT
Stuart Therapeutics Announces Important Additions to the Company's Intellectual Property Portfolio
Stuart Therapeutics

Stuart Therapeutics, Inc. (Stuart), a clinical stage company developing advanced ophthalmic therapeutics, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark office has issued a Notice of Allowance in each of two patent applications associated with the company's clinical product candidates, including ST-100, Stuart's drug candidate for the treatment of dry eye disease (DED) which recently completed a successful Phase 2 trial.

   
Released: 22-Jul-2022 3:25 PM EDT
Evidence that asylum seekers are facing human rights violations in Croatia is now incontestable, says new study
University of Nottingham

Every week, hundreds of asylum seekers are facing extreme forms of police brutality, as well as being forcibly expelled from the EU without having their asylum claims processed by Croatian authorities, new independent research has found.

Released: 22-Jul-2022 2:35 PM EDT
ASA Celebrates Passage of David Scott Amendment that Ensures Physician-led Anesthesia Care for Veterans
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) applauds Congressional passage of the amendment by U.S. Rep. David Scott (D-GA-13) that ensures the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) continues to provide safe, high-quality anesthesia care for our nation’s Veterans.

Newswise: UCI study examines broad impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity among rural, Latino immigrants in California
Released: 21-Jul-2022 4:20 PM EDT
UCI study examines broad impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity among rural, Latino immigrants in California
University of California, Irvine

A recent study led by Denise Diaz Payán, PhD, MPP, corresponding author and assistant professor of health, society, and behavior at the UCI Program in Public Health, examined how household food environments of rural Latino immigrants were impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how access to nutritional food is complicated by barriers to government assistance programs. Findings are published online in the journal Nutrients.

   
Released: 21-Jul-2022 3:25 PM EDT
Research Examines the Impacts of Rent Regulation and Implications for Inequality
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School

Luis Quintero, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, recently conducted a study examining the socioeconomic impacts of rent regulation with colleagues from the University of North Texas and George Washington University.

   
Released: 21-Jul-2022 1:05 PM EDT
What Harry Potter can (and can’t) teach us about economics
Oxford University Press

A new paper in Oxford Open Economics, published by Oxford University Press, explores “Potterian economics”—the economics of the world of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.

Released: 20-Jul-2022 8:05 PM EDT
Survey Finds Alarming Trend Toward Political Violence
UC Davis Health (Defunct)

A new report published by researchers at the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program reveals alarming trends in attitudes toward violence, including political violence, in the United States.

Newswise: WashU Expert: Increasing moderate voters’ participation in primaries can help combat hyperpartisanship
Released: 20-Jul-2022 12:25 PM EDT
WashU Expert: Increasing moderate voters’ participation in primaries can help combat hyperpartisanship
Washington University in St. Louis

On Aug. 2, voters in Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington will vote in their states’ primary elections. Thirteen more states will hold primary elections through August and September.In many districts where the general election isn’t competitive, the outcomes of these primary elections likely will decide who wins in November.

Newswise: Study Shows Widespread Mislabeling of CBD Content Occurs for Over-the-Counter Products
Released: 20-Jul-2022 11:15 AM EDT
Study Shows Widespread Mislabeling of CBD Content Occurs for Over-the-Counter Products
Johns Hopkins Medicine

In a new study, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers tested more than 100 topical cannabidiol (CBD) products available online and at retail stores, and found significant evidence of inaccurate and misleading labeling of CBD content.



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