Science, Medicine, & Education

DNA matching helps keep criminals in prisons longer

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, along with San Diego County Sheriff William Gore and San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman, have established a cooperative DNA project among their three agencies that is boosting prosecutions and jail time for defendants who commit multiple crimes.  By integrating a real-time DNA

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AJC honors Merck Vaccine president Julie Gerberding; also salutes Chelsea Clinton, Linda Mills

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) honored Dr. Julie L Gerberding, president of Merck Vaccines, with the global advocacy organization’s Women’s Global Leadership Award. The award was presented Wednesday, April 30,  at the AJC Women’s Leadership Spring Luncheon, held at The Pierre Hotel in New York City. “Dr. Gerberding is a true

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Petition seeks curbs on anti- Israel activities on campuses

SACRAMENTO (Press Release)– AMCHA Initiative on Tuesday, April 29, delivered a petition signed by 1,118 California residents from more than 200 cities and towns to Senator Carol Liu and Assemblymember Das Williams , chairs of the Senate and Assembly education committees.  The petition asks the legislators to help stop University of California (UC) and California

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SDSU to award honorary doctorates to Price, Roscoe

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego State University has announced it will award honorary doctorate degrees to two distinguished San Diegans. Robert Price and Patricia L. Roscoe will be honored during commencement ceremonies on May 16. “We are extremely pleased to confer honorary doctorates on two San Diegans, Robert Price and Patti Roscoe, who have been extraordinary contributors

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Proposed e-smoke regs ‘too little’ — Blumenthal

HARTFORD, Connecticut (Press Release)–On Monday, April 28, in response to new draft Food and Drug Administration regulations prohibiting the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined  Yale-New Haven Hospital doctors Ben Toll and Roy Herbst at Smilow Cancer Hospital to call for additional measures to protect youth from nicotine addiction. The draft

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Israeli pro-life leader visits Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Prominent members of the U.S. Congress expressed their admiration to EFRAT’s founder Dr. Eli Schussheim for his organization’s efforts to help mothers carry their babies to full term. EFRAT steps in where the mother is facing a dilemma of whether to continue with her pregnancy, but does not feel financially or

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The cantor who rides on an ambucyle to save lives

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — They are a familiar site in Jerusalem and across Israel – United Hatzalah volunteers rushing in their orange vests and red motorcycles to save lives during calls of emergency distress. Each of the 2,100 registered volunteers which include secular Israelis, Ultra-Orthodox, Arabs, settlers, and citizens across the spectrum, carry

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Bill advances for 4-year degrees at comm. colleges

SACRAMENTO (Press Release) — A bill aimed at closing California’s job skills gap by allowing community colleges to offer four-year degrees, where a local workforce need can be documented, was approved Thursday in the Senate Education Committee on an 8-0 bipartisan vote. Senator Marty Block (SD-39), who authored the legislation – SB 850 – described his measure

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Another poll shows voters favor universal pre- school

SACRAMENTO. California (Press Release) – On the heels of a Field Poll showing large majorities of registered California voters supporting universal preschool for all four-year old children, a new poll released Thursday, April 24,  by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) reflects similar public sentiment, as the Senate Democratic caucus presses early childhood education as a

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Boxer lauds FDA plan to regulate e-smokes

WASHINGTON, D.C  (Press Release)– U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) responded Thursday, April 24,  to the announcement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it is moving to expand its authority to regulate tobacco products to include electronic cigarettes. The rule proposed by the FDA would allow the agency to regulate e-cigarettes, which are not currently under

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Blood pressure drug may fight epilepsy

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — A team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), UC Berkeley and Charité-Universitätsmedizin in Berlin, Germany, have determined that the blood-pressure drug losartan may also prevent cases of epilepsy that result from severe head trauma. According to a new paper published in the Annals of Neurology, the researchers found that

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ADL rues court’s college admission decision

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has expressed disappointment that the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-2 decision on Tuesday, April 22, in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, has the effect of preventing public colleges and universities in Michigan from considering race as one non-determinative factor in a holistic review of applicants.

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OpEd: SDSU students reject a BDS resolution

By J.J. Surbeck SAN DIEGO —  After much finagling, the Student for Justice in Palestine had managed on Wednesday, April 23, to bring in front of the Associated Student (AS) Council an anti-Israel resolution targeting the usual US companies “supporting Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians, and … bla-bla-bla.” One can admire the anti-Israel groups for

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