Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2011.  The National Institutes of Health has made awards to investigators across the United States for an ambitious set of projects seeking to develop new drugs for disorders of the nervous system. The projects — aimed at treating conditions such as vision loss, neurodegenerative disease and depression[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2011.  Current cigarette smokers have a higher risk of bladder cancer than previously reported, and the risk in women is now comparable to that in men, according to a study by scientists from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The report[Read More…]

Somalia–(ENEWSPF)–16 August 2011.  A group of Somali women and children wait to be registered at the transit centre in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia Death rates among Somali refugees who have entered Ethiopia to seek succour from famine has reached alarming levels, the United Nations refugee agency reported today, saying that while[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2011.  Children younger than 3 years old receive the same protective antibody response from the recommended two doses of licensed seasonal influenza vaccines regardless of whether the two doses are injected by needle, inhaled through a nasal spray or provided through one dose of each in any[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2011.  A study using mice provides insight into how a specific receptor subtype in the brain could play a role in increasing a person’s risk for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The research, conducted by the Intramural Research Program (IRP) at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA),[Read More…]

TOPEKA, Kansas–(ENEWSPF)–August 16 – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri filed a lawsuit today challenging a Kansas law that prohibits insurance companies from including coverage for abortion in their comprehensive plans. Since 2010, 13 states have enacted laws that prohibit some or all[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2011. Governor Pat Quinn today signed legislation to increase access to potentially life-saving medicine for children with severe allergies. House Bill 3294, the School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act, allows schools to stock and utilize epinephrine auto-injectors (often known as ‘epi-pens’) in the case of life-threatening allergic reactions.[Read More…]

Washignton, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2011.  HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today awarded $49 million in grants, partly supported by the Affordable Care Act, to improve the quality of health care and strengthen the public health infrastructure. Awarded to all fifty States, the grants strengthen State, local and territorial health departments’ capacity to[Read More…]

MIAMI–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2011.  The use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV-positive pregnant women reduces the chance of HIV transmission to the unborn child, but a newly published study by University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics researchers and others is raising questions about the cardiac effects of[Read More…]

MIAMI–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2011.  Researchers led by geneticists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have identified a new gene that causes retinitis pigmentosa, a form of blindness, ending one South Florida family’s nearly 20-year search for what caused three of their four children to lose their sight. The[Read More…]