NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–22 March 2011 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged governments to recognize that the water crisis facing many urban areas is the result of weak policies and poor management rather than scarcity, noting that the problem calls for increased investment in water and sanitation services. “Let us also pledge[Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D.–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2011.  The governor of South Dakota signed into law today a bill that requires any woman seeking an abortion to first visit anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs) and report the name of the physician providing the abortion to CPC staff. The law also requires a woman to[Read More…]

GREAT BRITAIN–(ENEWSPF)–21 March 2011.  Oxford University scientists have developed a new method for delivering complex drugs directly to the brain, a necessary step for treating diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Motor Neuron Disease and Muscular Dystrophy. These diseases have largely resisted attempts to over the last 50 years develop new treatments,[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—March 21, 2011.  Recent reports of events in Japan are causing scam artists to try to convince consumers that they need potassium iodide pills and drops to protect themselves.  Potassium iodide, or KI, can help prevent thyroid cancer, which is one of the biggest risks from contamination with radioactive[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2011.  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has revised its child restraint guidelines to be categorized by age rather than by type of child seat in order to keep pace with the latest scientific and medical research and the development of new child restraint technologies. Under the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2011.  The U.S. Department of State, in coordination with partnering U.S. governmental agencies, is actively engaged and has made water a foreign policy priority. Our strategy is founded in the belief that U.S. investments in water and sanitation translate into investments in people, economic sustainability, as well[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2011.  Another bill that would allow seriously ill Illinois residents to use medical marijuana has been introduced, after a similar bill was narrowly defeated last year. According to The Illinois Observer, the House Human Services Committee voted last week to send the bill to the full House for[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2011.  A new strategic plan to guide diabetes-related research over the next decade was announced today by the National Institutes of Health. The plan, developed by a federal work group led by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), identifies research opportunities with[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2011.  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) are issuing an updated remediation protocol (pdf) for homes with problem drywall. A study (pdf) conducted on behalf of CPSC by Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, finds no[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2011.  Nearly 25 years after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, exposure to radioactive iodine-131(I-131, a radioactive isotope) from fallout may be responsible for thyroid cancers that are still occurring among people who lived in the Chernobyl area and were children or adolescents[Read More…]