Report Shows that 100,000 Seriously Ill New York City Residents Could Benefit from Medical Marijuana; Patients, Healthcare Professionals, and Advocates Call on State Legislature to Pass Compassionate Care Act Immediately NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—August 29, 2013. Today, New York City Comptroller John Liu released a report calling on the state legislature to[Read More…]
Health and Fitness
Genetic Variant May Increase Heart Disease Risk Among People With Type 2 Diabetes
Boston, MA–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013. A newly discovered genetic variant may increase the risk of heart disease in people with type 2 diabetes by more than a third, according to a study led by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Joslin Diabetes Center. It is the first genome-wide[Read More…]
Learning How the Brain Takes Out Its Trash May Help Decode Neurological Diseases
Lysosome as the engine behind garbage uptake in the cell. Image credit: Haoxing Xu ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013. Imagine that garbage haulers don’t exist. Slowly, the trash accumulates in our offices, our homes, it clogs the streets and damages our cars, causes illness and renders normal life impossible. Garbage in[Read More…]
New Poll Shows Americans Strongly Oppose 20-Week Abortion Bans When They Understand Reality of the Issue
60 Percent of Americans Support Access to Abortion at 20 Weeks in Cases of Severe Fetal Abnormalities WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013. The first poll that reflects the reality of abortion later in pregnancy was released today, showing that when voters understand the real-world circumstances surrounding abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy,[Read More…]
Sutter’s $1 Billion Boondoggle-New Electronic Records System Goes Dark
Yet Another Risk to Patient Safety CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013. A controversial electronic health records system on which Sutter corporation has said it is spending $1 billion went completely dark Monday at Sutter hospitals in Northern California exposing patients to additional risk beyond problems reported with the system in July, registered[Read More…]
Study: Air Pollution Causes 200,000 Early Deaths Each Year in the U.S.
New MIT study finds vehicle emissions are the biggest contributor to these premature deaths CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013. Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have come out with some sobering new data on air pollution’s impact on Americans’ health. The group tracked ground-level emissions from sources such[Read More…]
Advocates Commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31st as Drug Overdose Now #1 Cause of Accidental Death
Drug Policy Alliance Leads National Effort for Comprehensive Overdose Prevention Policies; Ten States Passed “911 Good Samaritan” Laws in 2012 and 2013 NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2013. The Drug Policy Alliance will join dozens of organizations in the U.S. and abroad commemorating International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31. The day[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel Announces Release of Food Desert Data and New Interactive Efforts to Combat Food Deserts in Chicago
Efforts to Reduce Food Deserts Have Reduced Food Deserts in Low-Income Areas by More than 20 Percent; New Release of Data Will Help Communities Join the Fight to Alleviate Food Deserts CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013. Today, Mayor Rahm Emanuel publicly released vital information and data on food deserts, including lists of[Read More…]
Study: THC Increases Brain Activity In Response To Positive Stimuli
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 27, 2013. By Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director The administration of THC modulates emotional processing in healthy volunteers, according to placebo-controlled crossover trial data published online by the journal European Neuropsychopharmacology. Investigators from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands performed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on 11 healthy[Read More…]
NIH Study Links Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment to Possible Risk of Stomach Cancer
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2013. Hodgkin lymphoma survivors who received certain radiation and chemotherapy regimens were at increased risk of subsequently developing stomach cancer, according to a study by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The study appeared Aug. 26, 2013, in the[Read More…]
