CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 26, 2015.  More than 1,200 registered nurses who work at Cook County hospitals and clinics have, after many months of effort, won a tentative new collective bargaining agreement with county officials that they say addresses many patient care concerns and provides needed economic improvements. RNs must still ratify the[Read More…]

ISSAQUAH, Wash. —(ENEWSPF)—June 26, 2015. A coalition including Community Alliance for Global Justice, fishermen, members of UFCW Local 21 and concerned Costco customers rallied in front of the Costco next door to store headquarters and presented more than 300,000 petition signatures demanding that Costco Wholesale (COST) publicly commit to not[Read More…]

Albany, NY–(ENEWSPF)–June 25, 2015.  The inhalation of cannabis via a vaporizer reduces pulmonary risks associated with smoking the plant, according to a literature review published in the Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy. Vaporization technology heats cannabis to a point where cannabinoid vapors form, but below the point of combustion. “The[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 25, 2015. Earlier today, a state court judge blocked a Kansas law banning the most commonly used method of ending a pregnancy in the second trimester—a law that could force some women to undergo an additional invasive unnecessary medical procedure even against the medical judgment of her physician.[Read More…]

Texas-style clinic shutdown laws would further devastate abortion access in Tennessee, across the South Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 25, 2015.  The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a new lawsuit in federal district court today challenging three unconstitutional Tennessee measures designed to close reproductive health care clinics and make abortion harder to obtain.[Read More…]

The parasites of malaria and toxoplasmosis invading their host cells. Boston, MA ─(ENEWSPF)–June 25, 2015.  A new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health finds that a malaria parasite protein called calcineurin is essential for parasite invasion into red blood cells. Human calcineurin is already[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–Junje 25, 2015. A clinical trial investigating a potential treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) was announced by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The study will assess the safety and efficacy of gabapentin enacarbil (HORIZANT) in extended-release tablets for treating moderate to severe AUD. NIAAA[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2015.  As the six-year anniversary of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act passed by this week, in an unsparing new letter nine U.S. Senators blasted the Obama Administration’s failure to finalize anti-tobacco regulations, calling the delays “unacceptable” and noting that youth use of new[Read More…]

Polio vaccination campaign in Iraq – August 2014. Photo: UNAMI GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–23 June 2015 – With temperatures soaring to over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in some parts of Iraq and the number of people fleeing violence topping 3 million, the World Health Organization fears the closing of nearly 90 per cent of[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2015. U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) today called for a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study into the feasibility of creating a single food agency to increase efficiencies, reduce costs and improve safety.  Each year 48 million[Read More…]