WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2010. Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that the Department of Commerce (DOC) has awarded $22,534,776 through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to build 187 miles of fiber-optic broadband network in Urbana, Champaign,[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Haiti: Doctors Without Borders Expanding Post-Operative Services in Response to Growing Need
HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–03 March 2010. Seven weeks after the earthquake of January 12 left up to 300,000 people injured, medical needs remain immense in Haiti. “The immediate emergency phase may be over, but the long-term work is just beginning, and it’s no less an emergency,” said MSF Haiti Head of Mission Karline[Read More…]
Insurance Agency Becomes First to Offer National Medical Marijuana Coverage
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2010. In the latest sign of a growing embrace of medical marijuana by the business community in this country, a California-based insurer said this week that it will now offer medical marijuana-related coverage in all 50 states. A spokesman for Statewide Insurance Services said the new program[Read More…]
Senator Roland W. Burris Pushes Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2010. Senator Roland W. Burris unveiled sweeping legislation on March 3rd with five of his Senate colleagues to repeal the seventeen-year old, discriminatory policy banning gays and lesbians from serving openly in the United States military. Senator Burris, a member of both the Senate Armed Services Committee[Read More…]
Food Crisis Looms in Rural Haiti
LEOGANE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2010. More than a month after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and CARE have issued a joint alert over a national food crisis. “This is a hidden but pervasive crisis that has already touched all corners of the[Read More…]
Protecting HIV-Positive Mothers and Their Children After the Quake in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–3 March 2010 – Jeanne (not her real name) sat on a mattress in her tent in a makeshift settlement for displaced people that has sprung up in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. As the afternoon sun burned through the plastic walls of the tent, she told her story. Jeanne[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama on Health Care Reform, March 3, 2010 (Video and Text)
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2010 – 1:50 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much, all of you, for joining us today. And I want to thank Julie, Barbara, Roland, Stephen, Renee, and Christopher, standing behind me — physicians, physicians assistants, and nurses who understand how important it is for us[Read More…]
AMA Approves of President Obama’s New Health System Reform Proposal, Calls for Added Reforms
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2010. As we reach the final stage of health system reform, the AMA is pleased that President Obama has offered some additional proposals, including expanding medical liability reforms, raising Medicaid payment rates to improve access to care for vulnerable patients and expanding the availability of health savings[Read More…]
Improving Child Nutrition Programs Will Help More Children Succeed, Witnesses Tell House Committee
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2010. With child obesity and child hunger both on the rise, Congress has a critical opportunity to help children be healthy and succeed in school by improving access to and the quality of the U.S. child nutrition programs and the Women Infants and Children (WIC), witnesses told[Read More…]
‘Hawaiian® Kettle Style Potato Chips – Sweet Maui Onion’ and ‘Hawaiian – Sweet Maui Onion Rings’ Recalled Because of Possible Health Risk
Algona, Washington–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2010. Out of regard and concern for our consumers, Tim’s Cascade Snacks of Algona, Washington is recalling ‘HAWAIIAN® Kettle Style Potato Chips – SWEET MAUI ONION’ AND ‘HAWAIIAN – SWEET MAUI ONION RINGS‘ because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can[Read More…]
