Patients demand compensation for constitutional rights violations by local law enforcement Lakeport, CA – (ENEWSPF)—October 30, 2014. Nine medical marijuana patients from Lake County filed tort claims today for a total of $621,000 in monetary damages in a widely-watched ongoing legal struggle between growers and county officials. Two weeks ago,[Read More…]

Action to Include Strike by 18,000 Kaiser California RNs Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014.  Registered nurses from California to Maine will hold strikes, picketing, and other actions Wednesday, November 12 in 12 U.S. states and the District of Columbia – with possible support actions globally – as the largest U.S.[Read More…]

Agency Also Alleges Health Claims Were Not Approved by the FDA, as Advertised Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014.  The Federal Trade Commission has charged Gerber Products Co., also doing business as Nestlé Nutrition, with deceptively advertising that feeding its Good Start Gentle formula to infants with a family history of allergies[Read More…]

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim (second left) touring the Kenyatta Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya and discussing preparations and readiness to deal with the Ebola outbreak. Photo: World Bank/Dominic Chavez KENYA–(ENEWSPF)–30 October 2014 – The World Bank has announced it is boosting its efforts in assisting health workers fight[Read More…]

An MSF doctor shows a lung X-ray to a extensively drug-resistant TB patient in Kara Suu hospital, Kyrgyzstan. Vincent Tremeau BARCELONA/NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014.  Outdated policies and practices and critical gaps in care for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) are fueling a worldwide public health crisis, said the international medical humanitarian organization[Read More…]

Women pick up antimalarials at an early-morning MSF distribution in Monrovia, Liberia.  Armelle Loiseau/MSF PARIS/NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014.  In order to address a deeply troubling but little-known consequence of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has begun distributing antimalarial[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014.  The National Institutes of Health has launched a clinical trial to assess the effects of aspirin and cholesterol-lowering drugs, or statins, on preventing cardiovascular disease in people with long-term HIV infections. This group, which includes people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) as well as “elite controllers” who[Read More…]

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 29, 2014.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today the approval of Trumenba, the first vaccine licensed in the United States to prevent invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B in individuals 10 through 25 years of age. Meningococcal disease is a life-threatening illness[Read More…]

Girls in the city of Voinjama look at a poster that displays information and illustrations about how to prevent the spread of Ebola. Photo: UNICEF/2014/Liberia/Jallanzo ETHIOPIA–(ENEWSPF)–28 October 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged countries that have imposed travel bans or closed their borders in response to the Ebola outbreak[Read More…]

Food & Water Watch Urges USDA to Rethink Equivalency Standards for Imported Meat Washington, D.C —(ENEWSPF)—October 28, 2014. In response to last week’s discovery that a shipment of imported beef from Canada was contaminated with the pathogen E.coli 0157:H7, Food & Water Watch today urged USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to[Read More…]