Congresswoman’s new proposal would protect children while helping public schools remove lead from their water fountains and sinks Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) today introduced legislation to protect schoolchildren nationwide from lead poisoning by improving testing and monitoring procedures in schools as well as helping school districts[Read More…]
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What Free Will Looks Like in the Brain (Video)
Baltimore, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. Johns Hopkins University researchers are the first to glimpse the human brain making a purely voluntary decision to act. Unlike most brain studies where scientists watch as people respond to cues or commands, Johns Hopkins researchers found a way to observe people’s brain activity as they[Read More…]
Income Inequality Leads Millennials to Start Families Before Marriage
Baltimore, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. Rising income inequality, and the resulting scarcity of certain types of jobs, is a key reason a growing number of young Americans are having babies before getting married. Andrew Cherlin A study led by Johns Hopkins University sociologist Andrew J. Cherlin is the first to trace[Read More…]
Democratic National Convention Announces Americans from Across the Country to Speak at National Convention
Speakers will tell their personal story to put a spotlight on the stakes in this election, how Hillary Clinton has already made a difference for families, and what she will do for families as President of the United States PHILADELPHIA -(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. Ahead of the Democratic National Convention[Read More…]
CDC Assisting Utah Investigation of Zika Virus Infection Apparently Not Linked to Travel
Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. CDC is assisting in the investigation of a case of Zika in a Utah resident who is a family contact of the elderly Utah resident who died in late June. The deceased patient had traveled to an area with Zika and lab tests showed he had[Read More…]
Representatives Robin Kelly, Himes Reach Out to Business Leaders to Help Fight Gun Violence
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. Today, Representatives Robin L. Kelly (IL-02) and Jim Himes (CT-04) led more than 40 Representatives in sending a letter to the CEOs of the Fortune 100 outlining opportunities for the business community to help decrease gun violence. Nearly 3,000 Americans have died from gun[Read More…]
America Deserves Better Than This: Trump’s Dangerous and Divisive National Security Proposals
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. From Trump and his running mate Mike Pence’s shared support for a ban on Muslims, to their advocacy for the use of torture, to Trump’s proposals to allow more countries to have nuclear weapons, to his secret plan to defeat ISIS, to his cozying up to[Read More…]
NASA Sends Trailblazing Science, Cargo to International Space Station Aboard SpaceX Resupply Mission
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft launched at 12:45 a.m. EDT on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida with almost 5,000 pounds of cargo. Credits: NASA/Tony Gray FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. Instruments to perform the first-ever DNA sequencing in space, and the[Read More…]
HIV Therapy for Breastfeeding Mothers Can Virtually Eliminate Transmission to Babies
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. For HIV-infected mothers whose immune system is in good health, taking a three-drug antiretroviral regimen during breastfeeding essentially eliminates HIV transmission by breast milk to their infants, according to results from a large clinical trial conducted in sub-Saharan Africa and India. These findings from the ongoing[Read More…]
Overcriminalization of People with Disabilities Must Be Addressed in Criminal Justice Reform
An inmate in a wheelchair goes through a check point at the California Medical Facility, in Vacaville, California, on April 9, 2008. Source: AP/Rich Pedroncelli Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. As bipartisan momentum around criminal justice reform continues to grow in Congress and across the United States, at least[Read More…]
