Day: July 20, 2017

Mayor Emanuel Announces Chicago’s Opioid Addiction Treatment Expansion

Investments in overdose antidote reversed approximately 1,500 overdoses last year, $700K investment will provide treatment for 1,000 residents of South and West Sides CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2017. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced progress and investments in the City’s ongoing efforts to combat the opioid epidemic and improve health. Building on the success[Read More…]

Graham and Durbin

Senators Graham, Durbin Introduce Bipartisan Dream Act To Give Immigrant Students A Path To Citizenship

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2017. U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) yesterday introduced the Dream Act, which would allow immigrant students who grew up in the United States to earn lawful permanent residence and eventually American citizenship.  These young people, known as Dreamers, have lived in America since they[Read More…]

FDA

FDA Clears First Neonatal Magnetic Resonance Imaging Device

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2017. Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device specifically for neonatal brain and head imaging in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). “Although we can use traditional MRI scanners to image neonates, taking babies outside of the neonatal intensive[Read More…]

Medicaid analysis

Center for American Progress Releases State-by-State Medicaid Enrollment by Age, Gender, Race, Ethnicity

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–July 20, 2017.  Dismantling the Medicaid program is at the heart of President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ agenda—and the devastating Medicaid cuts proposed in their attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act are a critical flashpoint in health care negotiations. President Trump has proposed cutting Medicaid by half in his budget. Yet new analysis from[Read More…]

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