NEW YORK, Jan. 16 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: * * * ACLU Statement on Federal Court Allowing Medication Abortion Case to Continue in Amarillo, Texas AMARILLO, Texas -- U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas issued a ruling today permitting the attorneys general of I  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Jan. 17 -- The University of Missouri's School of Journalism issued the following news release: Katie Yaeger, BJ '15, MA '17, discovered her passion for blending creativity and strategy while at the Missouri School of Journalism. Now a content design manager at Meta, she supports internal teams in tooling, accessibility and internationalization, which enable designers to ship out experience for billions of users across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other platforms in Met  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Jan. 16 [Category: Media]-- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following news: * * * Residents in certain ZIP codes are more likely to be fatally shot by police A person's ZIP code could determine their risk of being fatally shot by police, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. After analyzing 6,901 fatal police shootings between 2015 and 2022 across 32,736 ZIP codes, researchers found that fatal police s  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Jan. 16 [Category: Media]-- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following news: * * * Study on fluoride risk reinforces need for more U.S.-based research A recent meta-analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics that suggests increased fluoride exposure may be associated with lower IQ scores in children has intensified the debate over water fluoridation. The meta-analysis included 74 studies from various countries. An analysis of 59 of those studies showed an  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- The Washington University School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Gene therapy, in mice modeling Batten disease, found to slow symptoms, extend lifespan * * * As a leading researcher of rare diseases that affect children's brains, Jonathan D. Cooper, PhD, thought little about the gastrointestinal (GI) system. That is, until the parents of children with a condition that Cooper studies urged him to investigate why debilitating diges  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Jan. 16 [Category: Media]-- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following news: * * * What journalists should know about the threat of chikungunya Dengue, malaria, West Nile, Zika... most people have heard of these diseases. But far fewer people are familiar with chikungunya, a tropical disease likely to increase with the continuing effects of climate change. One reason chikungunya gets so little respect is that the size of its potential health and its   more