Santiago, Chile–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2014. PRESIDENT PIÑERA: Good morning. I would like to give the most warm in the world’s welcome to the Vice President of the United States, Mr. Joe Biden. You know that he was elected senator when he was only 29 years of age (inaudible) the youngest senator[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Tenants to Protest Mayor Emanuel’s Pal at Low Income Housing Board Meeting on March 11
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 10, 2014. Tenants from St. Edmunds Village, a subsidized building in the Washington Park neighborhood will protest the building owner, Reverend Richard Tolliver, who is a board member of the Chicago Low Income Housing Trust Fund, at their board meeting on Tuesday March 11. Tenants are demanding to meet[Read More…]
Drug Policy Alliance: Obama Administration Announces Plan to Address Rising Heroin Overdose Deaths
DPA Urges White House to Focus on Health-Based Approaches Rather Than Counterproductive Law Enforcement and Drug War Tactics LOS ANGELES, CA–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2014. The Drug Policy Alliance joins overdose prevention advocates across the country in applauding today’s statement by US Attorney General Eric Holder encouraging expanded access to naloxone, an[Read More…]
Headed for the OR? Mayo Clinic Expert Suggests 5 Questions to Ask Your Surgeon Before the Operation
The answers may make a difference in your outcome ROCHESTER, Minn.–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2014 — The news that you will need surgery can prompt many questions and a lot of anxiety. Beyond details about your medical condition and treatment options, what should you ask your surgeon before the operation? Whatever you need[Read More…]
Senator Bernie Sanders, Other Senators to Speak All Night in Wake-Up Call to Congress on Global Warming
BURLINGTON, Vt.–(ENEWSPF)–March 10 – In a dramatic gesture to urge action on climate change, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and other members of the Senate Climate Action Task Force will pull an all-nighter speaking on the Senate floor from Monday night through Tuesday morning. “When I go home to Vermont,[Read More…]
Students Unlock the Mysteries of the Brain With NIH Scientists
NIH celebrates Brain Awareness Week 2014 Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2014. Hundreds of middle school students from the Washington, D.C., area will visit the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Md. this week for a special brain-bending experience. Alongside scientists from seven institutes of the National Institutes of[Read More…]
Center for Reproductive Rights Calls on West Virginia Governor to Veto Cruel and Unconstitutional Abortion Ban
HB 4588 prohibits abortion at critical time in pregnancy, includes no exception for rape or incest, poses grave threat to women’s health and lives NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2014. The West Virginia Legislature passed HB 4588 this weekend, an unconstitutional ban on abortion at 20 weeks—a time when pregnant women are[Read More…]
Mercury: Groups Sue FDA for Seafood Health Information
Agency failed to respond to a petition filed in July 2011 Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2014. Today, consumer protection and environmental advocates filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for failing to respond to a July 2011 petition in which the groups asked[Read More…]
Be an Asteroid Hunter in NASA’s First Asteroid Grand Challenge Contest Series
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 10, 2014. NASA’s Asteroid Data Hunter contest series will offer $35,000 in awards over the next six months to citizen scientists who develop improved algorithms that can be used to identify asteroids. This contest series is being conducted in partnership with Planetary Resources Inc. of Bellevue, Wash. The[Read More…]
Survey Finds GE Contamination of Organic Farms
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2014. New data finds that organic farmers are growing increasingly concerned with genetically engineered (GE) crops cross-pollinating and contaminating their fields. This contamination can lead to serious economic losses for organic farmers and has created tension between neighbors. The data comes at a critical time as USDA[Read More…]
