Greatest numbers of visits caused by bicycling, football, and playground activities   Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2011.  Emergency department visits for sports– and recreation–related traumatic brain injuries, including concussions, among children and adolescents increased by 60 percent during the last decade, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control[Read More…]

Landmark collaboration is the first since the passing of the 2009 Tobacco Control Act Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2011.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health today announced a joint, large-scale, national study of tobacco users to monitor and assess the behavioral and health impacts[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2011.  Physicians often fail to counsel their young adult patients about excessive alcohol use, according to a study led by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. NIAAA guidelines for low risk drinking call for men to drink[Read More…]

MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–Oct 5, 2011 My sister just had a baby; so did another friend’s wife. My best friend’s wife is due any minute out in Los Angeles. Precious anticipation leads to even more precious miracles. And as parents all we can think of is protecting our children from anything and everything[Read More…]

Nurses Call for Tax on Wall Street to Heal America Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 4, 2011.  Nurses, who every day care for the casualties of the economic crisis driven by Wall Street greed, plan to hold a rally in Dewey Square at the site of the Occupy Boston Protest, to show[Read More…]

Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–October 4, 2011.  Adults drank too much and got behind the wheel about 112 million times in 2010—that is almost 300,000 incidents of drinking and driving each day—according to a CDC Vital Signs study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  “The four million adults who[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 30, 2011.  For more than 25 years, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month has been a time to reaffirm our commitment to fighting breast cancer and to remind ourselves of the importance of prevention and early detection. Breast cancer remains one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers among American[Read More…]

Settlement Order Prohibits Reebok from Making Unsupported Claims that ‘Toning Shoes’ Strengthen, Tone Muscles Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2011.  In its ongoing effort to stem overhyped advertising claims, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that Reebok International Ltd. has agreed to resolve charges that the company deceptively advertised “toning shoes,” which[Read More…]

SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2011.  The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS) is launching a new aspect of its public awareness campaign to help people with disabilities enter the workforce.  A billboard campaign will officially begin October 1 and reach every region of the state. “We want[Read More…]

NIH-funded study provides insight to the earliest stages of some cancers Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2011.  A novel technique that enables scientists to measure and document tumor-inducing changes in DNA is providing new insight into the earliest events involved in the formation of leukemias, lymphomas and sarcomas, and could potentially lead[Read More…]