Report shows importance of improved access to preventive care and high-quality treatment Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–November 14, 2012.  Black women have higher death rates from breast cancer than any other racial or ethnic group. They are 40 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, according to a Vital[Read More…]

NIH study finds delays after exposure to pesticides, industrial chemicals Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–November 14, 2012.  Couples with high levels of PCBs and similar environmental pollutants take longer to achieve pregnancy in comparison to other couples with lower levels of the pollutants, according to a preliminary study by researchers at the National[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 14, 2012.  On Nov. 14, World Diabetes Day, we unite with individuals living with diabetes, their families, advocates and health care professionals to raise awareness of this devastating disease around the world. Combating diabetes is an urgent public health issue. More than 340 million people worldwide have diabetes.[Read More…]

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–14 November 2012 – A new United Nations report urges additional investments in family planning that could save developing countries more than $11 billion a year in maternal and newborn health care costs, while stressing that the benefits of making services available to everyone are not just economic. The State[Read More…]

Illinois Jobs Now! Project Supported 200 Jobs; Will Strengthen Healthcare for Vulnerable, Low-Income and Medicaid Patients at Mount Sinai CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2012. Governor Pat Quinn today joined with community and healthcare leaders to announce the newly renovated Mount Sinai Hospital Health Clinic. This $7 million Illinois Jobs Now! capital construction[Read More…]

ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2012. About 115,000 women lose their private health insurance every year in the wake of divorce, according to a University of Michigan study. And this loss is not temporary: women’s overall rates of health insurance coverage remain depressed for more than two years after divorce. “Given that[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2012. An international group of scientists has identified three genetic regions that predispose Asian women who have never smoked to lung cancer. The finding provides further evidence that risk of lung cancer among never-smokers, especially Asian women, may be associated with certain unique inherited genetic characteristics that[Read More…]

Underscores Urgency for More Widespread Treatment GENEVA/KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA–(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2012—Results from the largest multi-country implementation of a new rapid tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic test reveal a growing global crisis of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced today. The data, presented at[Read More…]

Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–November 9, 2012 – 2:30 PM EST At-A-Glance Status: Ongoing Investigation Infection: Fungal Facility Type: Outpatient Setting Case Count: 438* States: 19* Deaths: 32* Laboratory Results * Updates occur Mon, Wed & Fri   Multistate Fungal Meningitis Outbreak – Current Case Count   November 9, 2012 2:30 PM EST Previous Case[Read More…]

NIH-funded study underscores need for physician counseling on healthy practices Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–November 9, 2012.  Roughly 20 percent of youth who have had HIV since birth did not know their HIV status when they first became sexually active, according to a study by a National Institutes of Health-supported research network. The[Read More…]