Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 4, 2016. Advocate Health Care Network (Advocate) has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), for multiple potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) involving electronic protected health information (ePHI). Advocate has agreed[Read More…]
Health and Fitness
NIH Begins Testing Investigational Zika Vaccine in Humans
A healthy volunteer receives the NIAID Zika virus investigational DNA vaccine as part of an early-stage trial to test the vaccine’s safety and immunogenicity. This is the first administration of this vaccine in a human. Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 3, 2016. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of[Read More…]
CDC Adds Antigua and Barbuda and Turks and Caicos Islands (U.K.) to Interim Travel Guidance Related to Zika Virus
Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–August 3, 2016. CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing Zika virus transmission. Today, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for Antigua and Barbuda as well as Turks and Caicos Islands (U.K.). CDC has issued travel notices (level 2, “practice enhanced precautions”) for people[Read More…]
Emergency Room Visits Jump As Trampoline Parks Gain In Popularity
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—August 2, 2016. Trampoline parks have become increasingly popular in recent years, leading to a soaring number of emergency room visits for injuries sustained at these recreational venues, according to a new study in the September 2016 Pediatrics. The study, “Trampoline Park and HomeTrampoline Injuries” (published online[Read More…]
100% of McDonald’s Chicken is Raised Without Antibiotics After Activist Push
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2016. McDonald’s announced today that it has eliminated antibiotics that are important in human medicine from 100 percent of its chicken supply. This announcement comes just a year and a half after McDonald’s publicly committed to require its poultry suppliers to stop using medically important[Read More…]
Research Reveals Cancer Pathway to Spreading Through the Body
Johns Hopkins scientists lead experiment showing role oxygen plays in cell movement MARYLAND–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2016. Cancer cells need oxygen to survive, as do most other life forms, but scientists had never tracked their search for oxygen in their early growth stages until now — a step toward deeper understanding of[Read More…]
CDC Issues Travel Guidance Related to Miami Neighborhood with Active Zika Spread
Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2016. New assessments of mosquito populations and test results this past weekend by Florida public health officials, as part of a community survey in the Miami neighborhood where several Zika infections were recently confirmed, have found persistent mosquito populations and additional Zika infections in the same area.[Read More…]
HHS Awards $5.1 Million to InBios to Advance Zika Diagnostic
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2016. A blood test that may reduce from days to hours the time needed to diagnose patients with recent Zika virus infections will receive advanced development support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).[Read More…]
Tapping Crowd-Sourced Data Unearths a Trove of Depression Genes
Pay-to-play gene typing leveraged for statistical power – NIH-funded study. Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2016. Scientists have discovered 15 genome sites — the first ever — linked to depression in people of European ancestry. Many of these regions of depression-linked genetic variation turn out to be involved in regulating gene expression[Read More…]
House GOP Health Care Plan Would Reverse Affordable Care Act Gains, Says New Center for American Progress Report
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 28. Source: AP/Cliff Owen Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 1, 2016. In July, House Republicans, led by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), released a white paper outlining their potential replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act, or[Read More…]
