Pediatricians commend Senators Lautenberg and Gillibrand’s efforts to prevent childhood exposures to toxic chemicals Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 17, 2013. Today, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) endorsed the Safe Chemicals Act of 2013, a bill introduced by U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) that would reform chemical management[Read More…]

National Infant Immunization Week – April 20-27, 2013 SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–April 17, 2013.  The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is reporting the highest number of pertussis (whooping cough) cases in Illinois since 1950. Preliminary numbers show 2,026 cases of pertussis in Illinois residents in 2012. During National Infant Immunization Week, April[Read More…]

Northwestern Medicine expert helps educate patients on advance care planning CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 17, 2013.  It’s a trying time for the entire family having to watch a loved one’s health decline. It can be even more stressful and confusing when medical decisions must be made, and family members debate healthcare decisions and[Read More…]

FBI and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General arrest 6 hospital staff SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2013.  The Illinois Department of Public Health is currently at Sacred Heart Hospital in Chicago to asses the hospital’s ability to care for patients after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)[Read More…]

Agency will not approve generics to original OxyContin Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2013.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved updated labeling for Purdue Pharma L.P.’s reformulated OxyContin (oxycodone hydrochloride controlled-release) tablets. The new labeling indicates that the product has physical and chemical properties that are expected to make[Read More…]

Photo: iStockphoto.com/Abel Mitja Varela Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2013.  Privately insured surgical patients who had a complication provided hospitals with a 330% higher profit margin than those without a complication, according to new research from Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health system innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)[Read More…]

New nicotine delivery devices on the market are unregulated and available for purchase by children and young adults WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2013.  Calling e-cigarettes a possible pathway to traditional cigarettes and other tobacco products, five U.S. Senators today called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue “deeming regulations”[Read More…]

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–16 April 2013 – United Nations and international health experts will travel to China later this week at Beijing’s invitation for a week-long joint assessment of the deadly H7N9 bird influenza outbreak that has so far infected 63 people, 14 of them fatally. Beyond these confirmed cases, 1,000 other people[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2013.  At a news conference Tuesday, April 16, a group of doctors announced the support of nearly 250 Illinois physicians for allowing patients with serious illnesses to obtain and use medical marijuana if their doctors recommend it. “For many patients, the treatment can sometimes be worse than the disease,”[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2013.  Women who had sufficient amounts of vitamin D were 32 percent less likely to develop fibroids than women with insufficient vitamin D, according to a study from researchers at the National Institutes of Health. Fibroids, also known as uterine leiomyomata, are noncancerous tumors of the uterus.[Read More…]