Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 1, 2015. In the U.S., roughly 45 percent of children are born into poor or low-income families, and children’s health suffers when basic needs such as food, housing and utilities are not met. A new approach to health care for low-income families of newborns that addresses[Read More…]

Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 1, 2015. Physicians are highly influential in parental vaccine decision making, but sometimes feel unprepared in addressing parents’ concerns about vaccines. When vaccine hesitancy leads to delaying or refusing vaccines, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases may occur. A July 2015 Pediatrics study, “Physician Communication Training and Parental[Read More…]

photo: iStockphoto.com Boston, MA ─(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2015.  After a prostate cancer diagnosis, eating a diet higher in red and processed meat, high-fat dairy foods, and refined grains—known as a Western diet—may lead to a significantly higher risk of both prostate cancer-related mortality and overall mortality compared with eating a diet[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2015.  Investigators for the nationwide trial, NCI-MATCH: Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice, announced today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago that the precision medicine trial will open to patient enrollment in July. The trial seeks to determine whether targeted[Read More…]

SPRINGFIELD –(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015.  The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has confirmed the first West Nile virus positive mosquito batch reported in Illinois for 2015.  St. Clair County Health Department employees collected a positive mosquito batch on May 26, 2015, in O’Fallon. “West Nile virus activity is largely dependent[Read More…]

Program that feeds hungry kids during the summer commemorates 40th anniversary MILWAUKEE–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015 – Today Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined representatives from Milwaukee’s Hunger Task Force, the Kohl’s Corporation, and members of the Milwaukee community to bring attention to childhood hunger. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) summer meal[Read More…]

Networking neurons thrive in 3-D human “organoid” Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015.  A patient tormented by suicidal thoughts gives his psychiatrist a few strands of his hair. She derives stem cells from them to grow budding brain tissue harboring the secrets of his unique illness in a petri dish. She uses[Read More…]

NIH-funded study evaluated meropenem in children under 3 months Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015.  The antibiotic meropenem was approved by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration for treating abdominal infections in children less than 3 months of age. The approval came after a study by a National Institutes of Health[Read More…]

When people on methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) are incarcerated in the United States, they are almost always forced off of the addiction-controlling medicine. In a randomized trial led by researchers at Brown University and The Miriam Hospital, inmates allowed to stay on MMT while in jail proved much more likely[Read More…]

Former US President Bill Clinton addresses the UN Economic and Social Council Partnerships Forum. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–28 May 2015 – As the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) met to discuss the role of partnerships in achieving the Post-2015 development agenda, the focus fell on the recent[Read More…]