New report presented during U.S. review before United Nations committee exposes massive gaps in maternal health care, reproductive health services NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 13, 2014.  Women of color face significant obstacles in obtaining essential health care services in the United States, according to a new report jointly issued today by the Center[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 12, 2014. The United States is working with the World Health Organization and other international partners to help West African governments respond to and contain the outbreak of the Ebola virus as quickly as possible. The full range of relevant U.S. Government agencies — including the Department of[Read More…]

Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—August 12, 2014. Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the XVIVO Perfusion System (XPS) with STEEN Solution, a device for preserving donated lungs that do not initially meet the standard criteria for lung transplantation but may be transplantable if there is more time to observe and[Read More…]

Collaboration with CMS contributed to proposed Medicare coverage Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2014.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Cologuard, the first stool-based colorectal screening test that detects the presence of red blood cells and DNA mutations that may indicate the presence of certain kinds of abnormal growths[Read More…]

Tissue model could change the way scientists study the brain in vitro-NIH study Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2014.  Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structural features similar to tissue in the rat brain and that can be kept alive in the lab for more than two[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSFP)–August 12, 2014,.  The presence of triclosan in soaps and consumer products ranging from cutting boards to pencils means constant exposure to a chemical linked to a wide range of adverse health effects. New data to be presented at the 248th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical[Read More…]

Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—August 11, 2014. A new study examines whether the location of impact affects the severity of concussions in young athletes. The study, “Impact Locations and Concussion Outcomes in High School Football Player-to-Player Collisions,” in the September 2014 Pediatrics (published online Aug. 11), analyzed injury surveillance data for[Read More…]

Americans for Safe Access and Leafly team up to educate public on therapeutic effects of cannabis for chronic pain Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—August 11, 2014. The country’s leading medical marijuana advocacy organization, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), has teamed up with the world’s largest cannabis information resource, Leafly, to run advertisements starting[Read More…]

Lisa Madigan & 28 Attorneys General Urge the FDA to Strengthen Proposed Regulations of E-Cigarettes to Better Protect Youth Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—August 8, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today joined with 28 other state attorneys general to urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to strengthen its proposed regulations of electronic[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2014.  NORML has updated its homepage’s medical cannabis section, including a newly designed national map of medical marijuana states to reflect the recent surge in states that have passed so-called ‘CBD-only’ legislation. Currently in the United States, 35 states have reformed their laws via legislation or binding[Read More…]