Despite bans in Europe and Canada, neurotoxin remains widely used in American hair dyes In 1980, the FDA approved lead acetate as a repeated use hair dye with minimal restrictions. The levels of lead in the product are allowed to be as high as 6000 ppm. Three years earlier, the[Read More…]
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Governor Rauner Announces Medicaid Managed Care Reboot
Goal of program is to offer enhanced care at sustainable costs, cover more beneficiaries, strengthen quality control and improve coordination of services CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2017. Governor Bruce Rauner, joined by Illinois Healthcare and Family Services Director Felicia Norwood and Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director George Sheldon,[Read More…]
Transgender Youth Take First Romantic Steps But Have Less Sexual Experience Than Peers Prior to Transition, Study Shows
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—February 27, 2017. Specialized transgender care clinics are seeing increasing numbers of youth identifying themselves as transgender. While it’s known that these young people have social and psychological vulnerabilities, a study “Sexual and Romantic Experiences of Transgender Youth Before Gender Affirmative Treatment” published in the March 2017[Read More…]
American Academy of Pediatrics Updates Recommendations on Caring for Teens After Sexual Assault
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—February 27, 2017. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has updated its recommendations on how pediatricians address, treat and prevent acute sexual assault in adolescents. The AAP clinical report, “Care of the Adolescent After an Acute Sexual Assault,” published in the March 2017 issue of Pediatrics (published[Read More…]
Nation’s Pediatricians Warn of Rising Risks to Youths From Loosening Marijuana Laws
New American Academy of Pediatrics report calls on doctors to help protect patients’ developing brains and bodies from the health harms of marijuana amid increased legalization Elk Grove Village, IL –(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2017. With marijuana now legal for recreation or medical use in a majority of states—and access and[Read More…]
National Cancer Institute Launches Study of African-American Cancer Survivors
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2017. The largest study to date of African-American cancer survivors in the United States is underway. The Detroit Research on Cancer Survivors (ROCS) study, which will include 5,560 cancer survivors, will support a broad research agenda looking at the major factors affecting cancer progression, recurrence, mortality, and[Read More…]
Extreme Temperatures May Increase Risk for Low Birth Weight at Term, NIH Study Suggests
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2017. Extreme hot or cold temperatures during pregnancy may increase the risk that infants born at term will be of low birth weight, according to a study of U.S. women by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The study was published in Environmental Research. The authors[Read More…]
Threat Of Obamacare Repeal Leaves Community Health Centers In Limbo
The ACA was a game changer for these clinics — it has enabled them to get reimbursement for much more of the care they provided. With repeal of the ACA looming, clinic directors said they stay up at night wondering what’s next. MASSACHUSETTS–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2017 This article first appeared February[Read More…]
FDA Clears Test to Help Manage Antibiotic Treatment for Lower Respiratory Tract Infections and Sepsis
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2017. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today cleared the expanded use of the Vidas Brahms PCT Assay to help health care providers determine if antibiotic treatment should be started or stopped in patients with lower respiratory tract infections, such as community-acquired pneumonia, and stopped in[Read More…]
Psychedelics Help Reduce Opioid Addiction, According to New Study
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2017 By: Jag Davies The criminalization of people who use psychedelics is rooted in myths that are the vestiges of colonialism and the drug war – and, one by one, those myths are crumbling down. We’ve learned in recent years that people who use psychedelics are significantly[Read More…]
