Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 21, 2017 By Joan McCarter It was a really rough week for Republicans, notwithstanding the inauguration of popular vote loser Donald Trump. The vote they took the week before to repeal Obamacare, even though they don’t have a whisper of an agreed upon replacement plan, has enraged their[Read More…]
Health and Fitness
Women Will Lose Tremendously If Congress Attacks Affordable Care Act, Planned Parenthood
Source: AP/Sue Ogrocki Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2017. Repealing the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, and defunding Planned Parenthood would cause millions of women to lose access to affordable health care and would most harm low-income women and women of color, according to a new column by the Center for[Read More…]
Doctors Who Support ‘Medicare for All’ Among Those Opposing Price as HHS Secretary
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2017. More than 2,000 physicians and medical students who oppose the nomination of Rep. Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services — and who support the creation of a single-payer national health program to cover all Americans — are among the signers of[Read More…]
Health, Environmental, and Tribal Groups Applaud Order Denying Industry Efforts to Halt BLM Methane Waste Rule Implementation
Rule Would Reduce Egregious Methane Waste, Benefit Taxpayers, Communities, Public Health CASPER, WY —(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. Sixteen national, regional, tribal and local public health and environmental groups representing millions of Americans applaud a decision issued yesterday by Wyoming federal judge Scott W. Skavdahl rejecting industry and state efforts to halt[Read More…]
Congressional Budget Office: Obamacare Repeal Would Increase Uninsured to 32 Million, Double Premiums in Next Decade
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017 By Joan McCarter Source: NY Daily News The Congressional Budget Office has evaluated the Obamacare repeal passed by Congress last year to determine what would happen if the same bill was used again. The aim was to predict “the changes in coverage or premiums that would result from leaving[Read More…]
Drug-Resistant ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Show Worrisome Ability to Diversify and Spread
Medical illustration of carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. A family of highly drug-resistant and potentially deadly bacteria may be spreading more widely—and more stealthily—than previously thought, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.[Read More…]
Smoking Costs the Average Illinois Smoker $1,770,563 Over a Lifetime
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. With the societal and economic costs of smoking totaling more than $300 billion a year and rising, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on The Real Cost of Smoking by State. To encourage the estimated 36.5 million tobacco users in the U.S. to kick the[Read More…]
Health Equity Study Compares Segregation, Low Birth Weight in Chicago and Toronto
Researchers collaborate at DePaul University and Rush University Medical Center The link can be broken between low birth weight and segregation, according to new research from the Center for Community Health Equity, a collaboration of DePaul University and Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. (Image courtesy of iStock) CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–January[Read More…]
Nutritional Quality of Kids’ Menus Not Improving
Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)–January 12, 2017. U.S. chain restaurants participating in a National Restaurant Association initiative to improve the nutritional quality of their children’s menus have made no significant changes compared with restaurants not participating in the program, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public[Read More…]
National Nurses Call Out 13 Democrats on Rx Vote: Whose Side Are You On? Big Pharma or Patients?
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–January 12, 2017. National Nurses United today sharply criticized 13 Senate Democrats who defeated an amendment that would have aided tens of millions of patients struggling with skyrocketing prescription drug costs, voting instead Tuesday night to ally with the pharmaceutical industry. The critical test was on an amendment[Read More…]
