NIH-funded study suggests possible treatment for common condition Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2012. Treatment with vitamin D reduced the size of uterine fibroids in laboratory rats predisposed to developing the benign tumors, reported researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health. Uterine fibroids are the most common noncancerous tumors in women[Read More…]
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Statement by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the Blunt Amendment
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2012. “Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services reported that over 20 million American women in private health insurance plans have already gained access to at least one free preventive service because of the health care law. Without financial barriers like co-pays and deductibles,[Read More…]
Proposed Mars Mission Has New Name
Artist rendition of the proposed InSight (Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Lander. InSight is based on the proven Phoenix Mars spacecraft and lander design with state-of-the-art avionics from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory missions. Image credit: JPL/NASA PASADENA, CA-(ENEWSPF)- A proposed[Read More…]
New Book Celebrates Outdoor Childhood Games
TAG, TOSS & RUN: 40 CLASSIC LAWN GAMES MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2012. As children growing up on farms in rural Maine, Victoria Rowell and Paul Tukey say there were unaware of a social transformation that began in 1972 with the launch of the world’s first video game known as Pong. Forty[Read More…]
Coal Clunkers Closing: Public Pressure Finally Shutters Chicago’s Notorious Fisk and Crawford Plants
Coalition Succeeds in Ending Long Standing Health and Climate Threat CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2012. A deal this morning to close the Fisk and Crawford Generating Stations in Chicago brings a final chapter to one of the nation’s most noted environmental justice stories. The two nearly century-old coal plants have been magnets[Read More…]
FDA Approves First Quadrivalent Vaccine to Prevent Seasonal Influenza
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2012. FluMist Quadrivalent, a vaccine to prevent seasonal influenza in people ages 2 years through 49 years, has been approved today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FluMist Quadrivalent is the first influenza vaccine to contain four strains of the influenza virus, two influenza A[Read More…]
Confused by Genetic Tests? NIH’s New Online Tool May Help
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2012. An online tool launched today by the National Institutes of Health will make it easier to navigate the rapidly changing landscape of genetic tests. The free resource, called the Genetic Testing Registry (GTR), is available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gtr/. “I’m delighted that NIH has created this powerful, new[Read More…]
More Than 10,000 Participants Have Joined the GuLF STUDY
NIH seeking thousands more oil spill workers to find potential health effects of spill Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2012. Nearly two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 10,000 cleanup workers and volunteers have enrolled in the Gulf Long-term Follow-up (GuLF) STUDY, a national[Read More…]
Senator Collins Amendment to Transportation Bill Puts 8,100 Lives at Risk
Legislative rider would kill limits on toxic pollution from industrial power plants Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2012. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has introduced a proposed rider to the 2012 federal transportation bill that would effectively kill off long-overdue limits on toxic pollution from Industrial Power Plants (boiler MACT). The Environmental Protection[Read More…]
EPA’s Refusal To Clean Up Smog Pollution Challenged
Central California groups back in court seeking new ozone plan for San Joaquin Valley San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–February 28, 2012. In the ongoing campaign to clean up the air in California’s San Joaquin Valley, health and environmental advocates have returned to federal court to seek enforcement of the Clean Air Act. This[Read More…]
