Day: November 14, 2012

Park Forest Rotary Club Announces 31st Annual Poinsettia Sale

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—November 14, 2012.  The Park Forest Rotary Club is embarking on its 31st Annual Poinsettia Sale.  This fundraiser began as a unique effort to meet personal and professional holiday season decorating needs.  At the time of its inception, no other club was selling poinsettias and delivered them at[Read More…]

Hundreds of School Districts Apply for $400 Million Race to the Top-District Competition

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 14, 2012.  Today the U.S. Department of Education announced it received 371 applications – representing more than 1,100 school districts – for the Race to the Top-District competition. The 2012 RTT-D program will provide close to $400 million to support locally developed plans that will personalize learning, directly[Read More…]

Advocacy for Planned Home Birth Not in Patients’ Best Interest

Home-Birth-Like Experience in Hospitals Ultimately Safer, More Satisfying, and More Cost Effective for Patients, American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology Reports NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 14, 2012 — Advocates of planned home birth have emphasized its benefits for patient safety, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness, and respect for women’s rights. A clinical opinion[Read More…]

Mayor Emanuel Announces New Healthy Vending Machines to be Located Across All City Departments

Mayor Will Introduce Ordinance This Week That Transitions All of the Vending Machines in City Buildings Into Healthy Vending Machines CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–November 14, 2012.  Today Mayor Emanuel announced that new healthy vending machines will be located across all City departments and buildings starting in January 2013. These new vending machines will[Read More…]

Disparities in Breast Cancer Continue Among U.S. Women

Report shows importance of improved access to preventive care and high-quality treatment Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–November 14, 2012.  Black women have higher death rates from breast cancer than any other racial or ethnic group. They are 40 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, according to a Vital[Read More…]

PCBs, Other Pollutants May Play Role in Pregnancy Delay

NIH study finds delays after exposure to pesticides, industrial chemicals Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–November 14, 2012.  Couples with high levels of PCBs and similar environmental pollutants take longer to achieve pregnancy in comparison to other couples with lower levels of the pollutants, according to a preliminary study by researchers at the National[Read More…]

Statement from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on National Diabetes Month and World Diabetes Day

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 14, 2012.  On Nov. 14, World Diabetes Day, we unite with individuals living with diabetes, their families, advocates and health care professionals to raise awareness of this devastating disease around the world. Combating diabetes is an urgent public health issue. More than 340 million people worldwide have diabetes.[Read More…]

Life and Death in a Star-Forming Cloud

  W44 and its environment EU–(ENEWSPF)–14 November 2012.  The aftershock of a stellar explosion rippling through space is captured in this new view of supernova remnant W44, which combines far-infrared and X-ray data from ESA’s Herschel and XMM-Newton space observatories.   W44, located around 10 000 light-years away within a[Read More…]

Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, November 13, 2012

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2012. TEPCO: Cleanup and Compensation Costs Could Double Industry/Regulatory/Political Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s new two-year business plan, released last week, projects that costs for decontaminating the area around Fukushima Daiichi and paying damages to evacuated residents will double from the $62.5 billion estimate from April. The company[Read More…]

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