Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2014.  More than 30 countries have amended their laws to expand access to safe and legal abortion services in the last 20 years—a trend that has marked incredible progress to improving women’s rights and lives, including significantly reduced rates of maternal mortality due to unsafe abortion—according to[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2014.  ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. (ICON) and its related entities have agreed to pay $3 million in civil penalties to settle FTC charges that the companies violated the Commission’s 1997 consent order by advertising that use of their exercise equipment for just three minutes a day[Read More…]

Healthcare workers in Western Africa struggle with a lack of adequate protective equipment. Photo credit: © EC/ECHO Silver Spring, Marylandf–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2014.  National Nurses United today announced that it has received a major donation from Kappler Incorporated, an Alabama-based garment manufacturer, of 1,000 Hazmat special protective suits for embattled nurses,[Read More…]

Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)—September 17, 2014. President Barack Obama spoke yesterday about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The strategy has four key goals to address the epidemic: Controlling the epidemic at its source in West Africa; Mitigating second-order impacts, including blunting the[Read More…]

Award-Winning Author of High Price Shares Insights from his Remarkable Personal Journey and Career as a Scientist NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—September 17, 2014. Carl Hart, PhD, a neuroscientist and associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University, recently gave a compelling TEDMED Talk in which he dispelled the myths about drugs, drug[Read More…]

Atlanta, Georgia–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2014 – 4:01 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everybody.  Please be seated.  I want to thank Dr. Frieden and everybody here at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for welcoming me here today.  Tom and his team just gave me an update on the Ebola[Read More…]

Observance highlights services that offer support & independence to seniors SPRINGFIELD –(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2014.  In observance of Adult Day Services week Illinois Department on Aging (IDoA) Director John K. Holton, Ph.D., is praising providers who offer support services at Adult Day Centers. Adult Day Service (ADS) is designed for older[Read More…]

New Law: Californians Will Be Able to Buy Overdose Antidote in Pharmacies Upon Request SACRAMENTO, CA—(ENEWSPF)—September 16, 2014. Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assemblymember Richard Bloom’s pharmacy naloxone bill (AB 1535), which will permit pharmacists to furnish the opiate overdose reversal medicine naloxone hydrochloride upon request. Previously, naloxone was available[Read More…]

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2014.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Movantik (naloxegol), an oral treatment for opioid-induced constipation in adults with chronic non-cancer pain. Opioids are a class of drugs that are used to treat and manage pain. A common side effect associated with the use of[Read More…]

Urges emphasis on the benefits of less and better meat and dairy WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—September 16, 2014. For the first time, the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is charged with integrating environmental concerns into its recommendations on what Americans should be eating. Friends of the Earth submitted comments last week urging the[Read More…]