Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2013. Who CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics and the Health Resources and Services Administration What “Changes in Prevalence of Parent-Reported Autism Spectrum Disorder in School-Aged Children: 2007 to 2011-2012.” The report was co-authored by HRSA and data collection was conducted by the CDC.  The data come[Read More…]

Initiative Calls on Businesses and Organizations Across Chicago to Provide Healthy Choices in Vending Machines Mayor Emanuel Chooses a Healthy Snack from a New Healthy Vending Machine in City Hall. Photo Credit: Brooke Collins / City of Chicago CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2013.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Department of Public Health[Read More…]

Legislation would tighten restrictions on powerful and addictive hydrocodone painkillers like Vicodin and Lortab WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2013.  U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Representative Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), along with Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Representatives Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) today introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to combat prescription[Read More…]

World first: human liver kept alive and functioning on machine outside patient’s body World first: livers kept alive on device successfully transplanted into two patients Oxford University machine could as much as double number of livers for transplant Technology currently being trialled for first time with humans at King’s College[Read More…]

ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2013. A common test used to determine mercury exposure from dental amalgam fillings may significantly overestimate the amount of the toxic metal released from fillings, according to University of Michigan researchers. Scientists agree that dental amalgam fillings slowly release mercury vapor into the mouth. But both the[Read More…]

Welcome Significant Improvements in Patient Protections Jackson Park RN leaders celebrate tentative agreement. CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2013.  Registered nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center on Chicago’s South Side late Monday reached agreement with hospital officials on their first ever collective bargaining contract that includes significant improvements in patient care[Read More…]

Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish WASHINGTON, D.C. — A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 stores across the United[Read More…]

NIH-funded breakthrough points toward future rehabilitation options for people with physical disabilities Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2013.  A compact, self-contained sensor recorded and transmitted brain activity data wirelessly for more than a year in early stage animal tests, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. In addition[Read More…]

Center for Reproductive Rights Applauds Judge’s Decision, Repeats Call for Reversal of El Salvador’s Cruel and Destructive Abortion Ban Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2013.  A Salvadoran judge has granted pardon to “Mery” (a pseudonym), a 27-year-old woman with a mental disability who was sentenced to prison for ending a pregnancy, attempted[Read More…]

More than 145,000 reports made each year to poison centers involving pesticides and disinfectants WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2013. During National Poison Prevention Week, March 17-23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urges parents and caregivers to secure pesticides and other household chemicals in locked cabinets out of children’s reach. “Poison Prevention[Read More…]