SPRINGFIELD, IL–(ENEWSPF)–May 19, 2011. Safety on Illinois lakes, rivers and other waterways starts with wearing a life jacket and staying sober as the busy spring and summer boating season begins.  Illinois Department of Natural Resource (IDNR) Conservation Police – as part of the observance of National Safe Boating Week on[Read More…]

Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–May 19, 2011.  The major public health achievements of the first 10 years of the 21st century included improvements in vaccine preventable and infectious diseases, reductions in deaths from certain chronic diseases, declines in deaths and injuries from motor vehicle crashes, and more, according to a report from the[Read More…]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.–(ENEWSPF)–May 19, 2011.  An estimated 4.4 million Americans are living with chronic hepatitis, but most do not know they are infected. Viral hepatitis is an inflammation or infection of the liver and is the leading cause of liver cancer. Today, World Hepatitis Day, Illinois Department of Public Health Director[Read More…]

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 19, 2011.  Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the first test to help determine whether a pregnant woman or a person with swollen lymph nodes testing positive for toxoplasmosis, sometimes known as cat scratch disease, developed the infection within the past four months. Toxoplasmosis is[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 18, 2011. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today raised concerns with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about baked goods containing neurohormone melatonin that, because they are marketed as dietary supplements, do not require approval by the FDA for use as additives in food. Durbin asked the FDA[Read More…]

UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–17 May 2011.  Breastfeeding for four months or more is associated with fewer behavioural problems in children at age 5, an Oxford University study suggests. The findings, published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, add to the evidence base on the benefits of breastfeeding. ‘Our results provide[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2011.  Cigarette smoking, forest fires and woodburning can release a chemical that may be at least partly responsible for human health problems related to smoke exposure, according to a new study by NOAA researchers and their colleagues. Using a custom mass spectrometer designed by the researchers, the[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2011. Researchers have developed a more accurate method for estimating breast cancer risk for Asian and Pacific Islander American (APA) women. Most current risk estimates rely on data from non-Hispanic white women, but researchers have now come up with a statistical model that more specifically assesses risk[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 12, 2011.  During Healthy Vision Month, the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, encourages people and organizations around the world to recognize the value of the sense of sight and make vision health a priority. In focus groups conducted by NEI in 2005,[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 12, 2011.  Men and women infected with HIV reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by taking oral antiretroviral medicines when their immune systems were relatively healthy, according to findings from a large-scale clinical study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious[Read More…]