Nurse practitioners go over a patient’s chart at Ingalls Family Care Center in Flossmoor, Illinois, June 2013. Source: AP/M. Spencer Green Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 1, 2015. Yesterday, a new brief released by the Center for American Progress and the National Partnership for Women & Families recommends states proactively respond to political interference[Read More…]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(ENEWSPF)–September 30, 2015–Yesterday a federal court in California denied a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) motion to dismiss Center for Food Safety’s (CFS) lawsuit challenging its allowance of pesticide-contaminated compost in organic food production without a formal rulemaking and a public comment period . USDA had argued that[Read More…]

Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–September 30, 2015. The total cost of injuries and violence in the United States was $671 billion in 2013, according to two Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The cost associated with fatal injuries was $214 billion; nonfatal[Read More…]

New data show importance of addressing all forms of tobacco use, including flavored products 7 out of 10 middle and high school students and who currently use tobacco have used a flavored product. Full infographic Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–September 30, 2015. An estimated 70 percent of U.S. middle and high school students[Read More…]

Younger people who fill out document request interventions A new study from DePaul University finds that nearly a third of people who fill out advance health care directives — documents that lay out a patient’s wishes for end of life care — request medical interventions. The research explores the choices[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2015 – Comparing drug prices in the United States to those in other countries, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today condemned pharmaceutical companies that charge American consumers the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.    “It is unacceptable that the top three pharmaceutical companies made a combined[Read More…]

Boston, MA ─(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2015.  People who replace saturated fat (mainly found in meats and dairy foods) in their diets with refined carbohydrates do not lower their risk of heart disease, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. On the other[Read More…]

Reproductive Services in El Paso reopens, but millions of Texas women still at risk of losing access to safe, legal abortion Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2015.  After being forced to close its doors in early 2014 due to Texas’ clinic shutdown law, an El Paso clinic reopened today and announced it[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2015. A monoclonal antibody therapeutic drug, a novel approach to treating patients with influenza, will advance in development with funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR). No monoclonal antibody antiviral drugs to treat patients[Read More…]

Current standards may misclassify certain fetuses as growth-restricted Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2015.  Current standards for ultrasound evaluation of fetal growth may lead to misclassification of up to 15 percent of fetuses of minority mothers as being too small, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health[Read More…]