My Side of the Sky Highlights truth as Skate Contest Partner Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2014 – With the Winter Olympics piquing interest in snow sports like snowboarding and extreme skiing, the nation’s largest youth smoking prevention campaign is helping extend important health-related messages among teens with My Side of the[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Senators Merkley, Wyden Push Leads to Big Support for Dredging, Jetties
New funds will help create jobs and economic development along the Oregon Coast WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2014. Today, Oregon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has heeded their call to fund dredging operations at Oregon’s ports. As a result, Oregon’s ports will receive[Read More…]
Five Awarded Tenure at Prairie State College
CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2014. Prairie State College (PSC) recently announced that five faculty members met the college’s expectations for tenure, including commitment to student success, collaboration with their peers, and dedication to the college’s mission and core values. The announcement was made at the February Board of Trustees meeting. The[Read More…]
DePaul University’s Vincentian Heritage Journal Expands Reach with New Digital Format
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 6, 2014. The official journal of DePaul University’s Vincentian Studies Institute, Vincentian Heritage, will change to a digital format beginning with its newest edition, volume 32, on March 6. The biannual peer-reviewed journal includes articles on Vincentian history, spirituality and praxis. Since the first issue in 1980, Vincentian Heritage[Read More…]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Recovers More than $1 Million for Servicemebers, Veterans and Their Families
Complaint Snapshot Report Shows Military Consumers Not Seeing Protections They Earned WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—March 6 2014. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today that servicemembers, veterans, and their families who complained to the Bureau about financial products or services have recovered more than $1 million. The relief was reported in[Read More…]
Prostate Cancer: Surgery vs. Watchful Waiting
Boston, MA–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2014. More than 230,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year in the United States, but determining their course of treatment remains a source of considerable debate. A new study by researchers from Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and[Read More…]
Southeast Side Town Hall Meeting on March 6 to Discuss Petcoke Ordninance
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 6, 2014. Hundreds of Southeast Side residents will gather tonight at the East Side Methodist Church, 1100 S. Ewing Ave., Chicago, for a community-led town hall meeting to discuss the pending petcoke ordinance and decide next steps in the campaign to kick the Koch Brothers and their petcoke out[Read More…]
Two More Texas Health Centers Forced to Close in Wake of Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions Passed Last Summer
Women in East Texas and the Rio Grande Valley face dire health care crisis NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2014. Whole Woman’s Health announced the closure of its McAllen and Beaumont health centers today, leaving East Texas and the Rio Grande Valley without a single reproductive health care clinic providing abortion care. [Read More…]
Distant Black Hole is Spinning at Half the Speed of Light
Multiple images of a distant quasar are visible in this combined view from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. The Chandra data were used to directly measure the spin of the supermassive black hole powering this quasar. Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Michigan/R.C.Reis et al; Optical: NASA/STScI[Read More…]
Study Shows More Hospital Deaths and Invasive Care for Dying Cancer Patients Who Receive Chemotherapy
Findings Suggest Need for Caution in Use of Chemotherapy Among Advanced Cancer Patients NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2014 — Terminal cancer patients who receive chemotherapy in the last months of their lives are less likely to die where they want and are more likely to undergo invasive medical procedures than those[Read More…]
