Walkout to Protest Sutter’s Attack on RN Patient Advocacy Rights, Big Cuts in Nurses’ Healthcare, and to Support Kaiser Coworkers. CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–September 22, 2011.  Nearly 23,000 registered nurses are on a one-day strike today at 34 Northern and Central California hospitals, saying they will not accept attacks on RN rights to[Read More…]

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.–(ENEWSPF)–September 20, 2011.  The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is reporting the first West Nile virus related death in Illinois for 2011. A Cook County man in his 60s, who had underlying health conditions, was diagnosed with West Nile virus in August and died earlier this month. “Although[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 20, 2011.  Hospitalizations for alcohol and drug overdoses — alone or in combination — increased dramatically among 18- to 24-year-olds between 1999 and 2008, according to a study by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. Led[Read More…]

35 Persons Affected in 10 States  SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—(ENEWSPF)—September 20, 2011.  A total of 35 people in 10 states have been infected in the multistate outbreak of listeriosis linked to Rocky Ford Cantaloupes shipped by Jensen Farms in Colorado, including a suburban Cook County woman, the Illinois Department of Public Health[Read More…]

Children’s Oakland RN Martha Kuhl, front, with other Children’s, Kaiser, and Sutter RNs in a rally at the NNU Convention in San Francisco September 15. Walkout to Protest Sutter’s Attack on RN Patient Advocacy Rights, Big Cuts in Nurses’ Healthcare, and to Support Kaiser Coworkers. Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 19, 2011.[Read More…]

Michael Moore to NNU: ‘Your Movement on It is Genius’ Silver Spring,Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 19, 2011.  Delegates to the second convention of National Nurses United Friday called for a sweeping set of reforms to address the economic crisis swamping American families, and pledged to step up the campaign for a tax on[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2011.  Campus Progress reports about a recent study done by the Cook County Department of Public Health that surveyed 1,718 students at 20 suburban public high schools about health issues. The data released reinforces a need for a comprehensive sexual health education program in Illinois that, in addition[Read More…]

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–16 September 2011.  A United Nations human rights expert today called for taxing unhealthy food, regulating harmful marketing practices and standing up to the food industry, urging world leaders not to miss the chance at a summit next week to end a state of affairs that kills nearly 3 million[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2011.  President Obama announced today an initiative that will facilitate the ability of start-up companies to license inventions for groundbreaking medical technologies for drugs, vaccines and therapeutics developed by intramural scientists at NIH. As part of this effort, the NIH is reducing both the cost and paperwork[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2011.  President Obama announced today that the National Institutes of Health will collaborate with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to develop a chip to screen for safe and effective drugs far more swiftly and efficiently than current methods,[Read More…]