With Pay-for-Performance Expanding Across U.S. Under Affordable Care Act, Policymakers Should Focus on Creating Incentive Program That Works Boston, MA–(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2012. Paying hospitals to improve their quality of care, known as pay-for-performance, has gained wide acceptance in the U.S. and Medicare has spent tens of millions of dollars on[Read More…]
Science
CDC Estimates 1 in 88 Children in United States Has Been Identified as Having an Autism Spectrum Disorder
CDC data help communities better serve these children Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–March 29, 2012. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 88 children in the United States has been identified as having an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a new study released today that looked at data[Read More…]
Europe’s Third Cargo Vehicle Docks With the Space Station
ATV-3 docking EU–(ENEWSPF)–29 March 2012. PR 10 2012 – ESA’s ATV Edoardo Amaldi has completed the first stage of its docking with the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station. The docking occurred smoothly when ATV’s docking probe was captured by Zvezda’s docking cone at 00:31 CEST ([Read More…]
Checking CryoSat Reveals Rising Antarctic Blue Ice
Camping on blue ice EU–(ENEWSPF)–29 March 2012. Field measurements in the spectacular blue ice region of Antarctica not only provide confidence in the accuracy of ESA’s CryoSat mission, but have also shown that this part of the ice sheet has increased in height. Making sure that CryoSat is delivering[Read More…]
Over One Million Comments Delivered to FDA Call for Labeling GE Foods
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 29, 2012. The Just Label It Campaign (JLI) announced this week that more than one million Americans submitted comments supporting its petition to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods. The JLI Campaign, a national coalition of more than 500[Read More…]
Secretary Salazar, Director Beaudreau Announce Next Steps for Potential Energy Development in the Mid- and South Atlantic
Release Geological and Geophysical Environmental Analysis for Public Comment NORFOLK, Va.–(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2012. As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau today announced that Interior is taking steps to assess the conventional and[Read More…]
Oil & Gas Industry Can Reduce Methane Waste by 80 Percent, Cutting U.S. Methane Pollution by One-Third While Saving Industry $2 Billion Annually
New Report Reveals Top Ten Affordable Technologies to Significantly Reduce Harmful Air Pollution NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2012 – Oil and gas companies can reduce industry’s harmful methane emissions by 80 percent and generate $2 billion annually by implementing affordable and available technologies to fix leaks and other waste throughout the[Read More…]
Report to the Nation Finds Continuing Declines in Cancer Death Rates Since the Early 1990s
Special feature highlights cancers associated with excess weight and lack of sufficient physical activity Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2012. Death rates from all cancers combined for men, women, and children continued to decline in the United States between 2004 and 2008, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the[Read More…]
Canada To Declare Triclosan Toxic to Environment
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2012. The Canadian government is set to declare the bacteria killer found in many toothpastes, mouthwashes and anti-bacterial soaps as toxic to the environment, a move which could see the use of the chemical curtailed sharply in Canada. Triclosan, the chemical in question, has been linked to[Read More…]
U of Toronto Discovery of New Catalyst Promises Cheaper, Greener Drugs
TORONTO, ON–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2012. A chemistry team at the University of Toronto has discovered environmentally-friendly iron-based nanoparticle catalysts that work as well as the expensive, toxic, metal-based catalysts that are currently in wide use by the drug, fragrance and food industry. “It is always important to strive to make industrial[Read More…]
