Better understanding of the placenta promises to help improve health of mothers and children Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 28, 2015.  The National Institutes of Health has announced $46 million in research awards for the Human Placenta Project, an initiative to revolutionize understanding of the placenta. The awards will fund technology development and[Read More…]

International Strategies May Offer Solutions for New York’s Increasing Problem with Heroin Use, Preventable Overdose Deaths, Disease Transmission, and Public Drug Use New York City –(ENEWSPF)—September 28, 2015. Homelessness and public drug use are on the rise in New York, and accidental drug overdoses now kill more people than car[Read More…]

Pittsburgh, PA–(ENEWSPF)–September 25, 2015.  The use of marijuana by adolescents and young adults, including self-reported chronic use, is not positively associated with poorer quality of life outcomes later in life, according to an assessment of longitudinal data published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Investigators from the Pittsburgh School[Read More…]

Vineyard Gazette, Massachusetts–(ENEWSPF)–Sept. 24, 2015: By Steve Myrick The cost of doxycycline, an antibiotic routinely prescribed for treatment of Lyme disease, has skyrocketed in recent months, causing consternation among Island medical and veterinary providers as well as health care consumers who foot the bills. The retail price of doxycycline increased[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 25, 2015. Today Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Norma J. Torres delivered a letter from 55 Member of Congress calling on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to look into the human rights violations of women in El Salvador. The congressional letter details the cases of “Las 17,”[Read More…]

Thirteen grants awarded to look at cognitive and social development in approximately 10,000 children Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 25, 2015.  The National Institutes of Health today awarded 13 grants to research institutions around the country as part of a landmark study about the effects of adolescent substance use on the developing brain.[Read More…]

U.S. position leaves women without access to essential health services Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 24, 2015.  This week the United States government rejected recommendations from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, and Belgium urging the Obama administration to implement the Helms Amendment correctly—preventing women worldwide from accessing safe, legal reproductive care.  A[Read More…]

Clostridium difficile is responsible for more than 250,000 hospitalizations and 15,000 U.S. deaths each year. Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–September 24, 2015. Stanford University School of Medicine scientists successfully defeated a dangerous intestinal pathogen, Clostridium difficile, with a drug targeting its toxins rather than its life. By not aiming to kill the pathogen with antibiotics, scientists[Read More…]

About a third of those who drink alcohol say they binge drink 1 in 10 pregnant women reports alochol use* *Defined as at least one drink of any alcoholic beverage in the past 30 days. Source: CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), United states 2011-2013 Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–September 24, 2015.[Read More…]

According to research led by Leonard Jason, a community psychologist at DePaul University, living in a functional community and engaging in positive social structures enhances the recovery trajectory for alcohol and drug abuse. (Photo by Jamie Moncrief) CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)—September 24, 2015. Following substance abuse treatment, individuals who live in a[Read More…]