WILMINGTON, Delaware, June 11 (TNSres) -- AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release: * * * Decision based on LAURA Phase III trial results which extended median progression-free survival by more than three years TAGRISSO also granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation in US in this setting * * * AstraZeneca's supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for TAGRISSO(R) (osimertinib) has been accepted and granted Priority Review in the US for the treatment of adul  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: BOSTON -- Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended an unlawfully present Guatemalan national charged with raping a minor in Bristol County. Deportation officers from ERO Boston arrested Yader Alexander Morales-Quevedo, a 24-year-old, Guatemalan noncitizen in New Bedford. "Yader Alexander Morales-Quevedo will have his day in court, but he is facin  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on June 10, 2024: A Boston-area man was sentenced on Friday, June 7, 2024 for illegally possessing a firearm while under house arrest for three state firearm charges. Trevon Bell, 27, of Boston and Lynn, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 78 months in prison, and three years of supervised release. Bell pleaded guilty to being  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, released the following opening statement from a hearing dated May 15, 2024, entitled "Budgeting for the Storm: Climate Change and the Costs to National Security": * * * Ranking Member Grassley, members of the committee, witnesses, and guests: welcome. As we examine the looming economic dangers of climate change, today we'll learn about the strain it's placing on our defense and national sec  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Senator Susan Collins announced that the University of New England (UNE) will receive $999,917 in grant funding to educate and train primary care and supportive care workforces to provide age-friendly and dementia-friendly care for older adults. This funding is awarded through the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Fiscal Year 2024 Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP), and will  more