WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–May 5, 2015.  Panera Bread’s announcement today to remove EWG’s ‘dirty dozen’ food additives and other ingredients from its food by 2016 is the latest sign that more and more companies are stepping up in support of healthier food made with ‘cleaner’ ingredients, EWG said in a statement. Ken[Read More…]

Bilingual Product Sends Alerts on Bad Air Days to Help Reduce Asthma Attacks Triggered by Smog Pollution Users can sign-up online at sc.org/airalert or simply by texting AIRALERTS to 69866. WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–May 5, 2015.  Today, the Sierra Club launched its free smog pollution text alert system for 2015, which[Read More…]

Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—May 4, 2015. Are the increased number of adolescent pertussis cases since 1995 related to waning immunity? Authors of the study, “Tdap Vaccine Effectiveness in Adolescents During the 2012 Washington State Pertussis Epidemic,” appearing in the June 2015 issue of Pediatrics (published online May 4 ) tracked[Read More…]

Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—May 4, 2015. The number of births and general fertility rates both declined by 1 percent between 2012 and 2013, according to the Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2012-2013. The data presented in this report from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg[Read More…]

NIH-funded preclinical study suggests epigenetic drugs may be used to treat leading cause of pediatric brain cancer death Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 4, 2015.  Using brain tumor samples collected from children in the United States and Europe, an international team of scientists found that the drug panobinostat and similar gene regulating drugs[Read More…]

Health Affairs Blog article highlights petition to President Obama from more than 1,400 health professionals who say Ebola epidemic is linked to global inequality – and that African nations will require sustained U.S. aid to build up their health systems CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 4, 2015.  The spread of the Ebola virus in[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 4, 2015. Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla of Puerto Rico signed an executive order yesterday legalizing medical marijuana in the U.S. territory. The order enables the Puerto Rican Health Department to authorize the use of marijuana and its derivatives for medical purposes. The Health Secretary now has three months[Read More…]

Business Pulse: Heart Health – CDC Foundation Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 4, 2015.  Business Pulse: Heart Health, launched this week by the CDC Foundation, shares how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works to protect Americans’ heart health, a strategy that can improve worker productivity and lower healthcare costs.[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2015.  Center for Food Safety today renewed its call for the National Organic Program (NOP) to bar synthetic methionine—a manufactured amino acid added to chicken feed—from use in organic chicken production. The National Organic Standard Board (NOSB) at its biannual meeting yesterday approved a proposal to increase[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2015.  Yesterday, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) delivered remarks during debate of H.J. Res 43, a joint resolution disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in adopting the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act of 2014. The Washington, D.C. law makes it illegal to fire an employee based on[Read More…]