Month: April 2013

FDA Approves Plan B One-Step Emergency Contraceptive Without a Prescription for Women 15 years of Age and Older

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it has approved an amended application submitted by Teva Women’s Health, Inc. to market Plan B One-Step (active ingredient levonorgestrel) for use without a prescription by women 15 years of age and older. After the FDA[Read More…]

State Department Briefing by Patrick Ventrell, April 30, 2013

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013. Index for Today’s Briefing DEPARTMENT Free the Press Campaign / Uthayan Newspaper / Sri Lanka UKRAINE Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko / European Court of Human Rights Decision IRAQ Media Outlets Suspension of License / Journalistic Freedom Condemnation of Terrorist Attacks / Intensively Engaging NORTH KOREA[Read More…]

Kirk, Davis Statement on Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting

  Edwardsville, Illinois –(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013.  U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Congressman Rodney Davis (R-Taylorville) released a joint statement today following their meeting with Senator Kirk’s Agriculture Advisory Board: “We appreciate the input of the Board members, including chairman Terry Ferguson, and their dedication to informing us on the[Read More…]

Sailors Missing From Vietnam War Identified, April 30, 2013

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013.  The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that a Navy pilot, missing from the Vietnam War, has been accounted for and will be buried with full military honors along with his crew.  Navy Lt. Dennis W. Peterson of Huntington Park, Calif., was the[Read More…]

Remarks by Secretary of State Kerry With Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo After Their Meeting

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013.   SECRETARY KERRY: What are we here? Good morning. I was just checking. (Laughter.) (In Spanish.) I’m delighted to welcome Foreign Minister Garcia-Magallo here to Washington. Spain is an extraordinarily valued ally and a partner of the United States, and this year we mark the 500th anniversary[Read More…]

Police Accountability is Part of the Answer. Without It – We Sink Further Into the Abyss of Violence and Despair

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—April 30, 2013. Frank Chapman called for swift enactment of legislation creating and empowering an elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) as a necessary step in curbing the violence that is wreaking havoc in Chicago’s African American and Latino communities.  Chapman is Field Organizer of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist[Read More…]

How Some Cancers ‘Poison the Soil’ to Block Metastasis

Research Shows Therapeutic Proteins Could Offer Much Needed Treatment Strategy for Metastatic Cancer NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013 — Cancer spread or metastasis can strike unprecedented fear in the minds of cancer patients. The “seed and the soil” hypothesis proposed by Stephen Paget in 1889 is now widely accepted to explain[Read More…]

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