Boston, MA ─(ENEWSPF)–May 26, 2016.   The economic crisis of 2008-10, and the rise in unemployment that accompanied it, was associated with more than 260,000 excess cancer-related deaths—including many considered treatable—within the Organization for Economic Development (OECD), according to a study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,[Read More…]

Expanded use and availability of medication-assisted treatment is a top priority of federal effort to combat opioid epidemic Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 26, 2016.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Probuphine, the first buprenorphine implant for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. Probuphine is designed to provide a constant,[Read More…]

Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—May 26, 2016. A study in the June 2016 Pediatrics may help parents of babies with nighttime sleep problems rest a little easier. Worries that behavioral training method known as graduated extinction, which involves letting bedtime-resistant infants cry themselves to sleep, will cause emotional, behavioral or parent-child attachment issues may be unfounded, according to a randomized controlled trial[Read More…]

Elk Grove Village, IL–(ENEWSPF)–May 26, 2016.  The role of the school nurse has evolved and become increasingly important since first introduced in the United States more than a century ago, yet school district policies regarding school nurses lack uniformity and should be updated, according to a policy statement issued by[Read More…]

Cryo-EM methods can determine structures of small proteins bound to potential drug candidates. Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 26, 2016.  Scientists using a technology called cryo-EM (cryo-electron microscopy) have broken through a technological barrier in visualizing proteins with an approach that may have an impact on drug discovery and development. They were able[Read More…]

Blood samples from pregnant women wait to be analyzed for the Zika virus at a hospital in Guatemala City on February 2, 2016. Source: AP/Moises Castillo Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–May 26, 2016.  The Center for American Progress estimates that more than 2 million pregnant women in the United States are potentially at[Read More…]

Regulation marks the seventh and final major rule under FDA Food Safety Modernization Act Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 26, 2016.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today finalized a new food safety rule under the landmark, bipartisan FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that will help to prevent wide-scale public health[Read More…]

Boston, MA —(ENEWSPF)–May 24, 2016.  Women with elevated levels of common types of flame retardant chemicals in their blood may be at a higher risk for thyroid disease—and the risk may be significantly higher among post-menopausal women, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of[Read More…]

An Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz Institute in Recife, Brazil, on Janurary 27, 2016. Source: AP/Felipe Dana Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–May 24, 2016.   As lawmakers in Congress continue to debate funding levels to fight the Zika virus, the Center for American Progress released a[Read More…]

Growing Concern About Prevalence of Catholic Hospitals After Report Finds 1 in 6 Hospital Beds Are in Facilities Bound by Religious Directives WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2016.  The American Civil Liberties Union today filed suit to obtain complaints from the federal government about women refused emergency care because of the religious[Read More…]