Groups challenge Lease Sale 218 citing no lessons learned from Gulf disaster ATLANTA, GA–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. The federal government ignored the impact of BP’s 200 million gallon oil spill in its assessment of risks and precautions for the Gulf of Mexico before the first new lease sale since the Deepwater[Read More…]
Science
Advocates, Local Officials Urge Supreme Court to Review Long Beach Medical Marijuana Case
Amicus ‘friend of the court’ brief filed yesterday also seeks depublication of a widely misinterpreted ruling San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. A coalition of advocates and public officials filed an amicus ‘friend of the court’ brief yesterday, asking the California Supreme Court to take the appeal of Pack v. City[Read More…]
Many Young Children Overdosing From Medicines at Home
New educational program reminds parents to keep medication “Up and Away and Out of Sight” Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. Each year, one of every 150 two–year–olds visits an emergency department in the United States for an unintentional medication overdose, most often after finding and eating or drinking medicines without adult[Read More…]
FDA Issues Warning Letters for Misleading Advertising of Lap-Band
Ads lack information on risks of gastric banding Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it has taken action against eight California surgical centers and the marketing firm 1-800-GET-THIN LLC, for misleading advertising of the Lap-Band, an FDA-approved device used for weight loss[Read More…]
Trillion-frame-per-second Video
By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second. That’s fast enough[Read More…]
Central African Republic Mortality Rate Reaches Emergency Levels
MSF Calls For National and International Response to Crisis New York–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011—The Central African Republic (CAR) is in the grips of a chronic medical emergency, according to a report released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) . Four mortality studies carried out[Read More…]
Energy Department Awards More Than $7 Million for Innovative Hydrogen Storage Technologies in Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. The U.S. Department of Energy yesterday announced more than $7 million to fund four projects in California, Washington and Oregon to advance hydrogen storage technologies to be used in fuel cell electric vehicles. The 3-year projects will help lower the costs and increase the performance of[Read More…]
A Twist on Gift-giving This Season Could Change Hearts
Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. Many a stumped adult searching for the perfect gift to give a loved one this holiday season is finding help from the national Million Hearts initiative. Whether someone is pinching pennies or the sky is the limit, good health is the one thing everyone appreciates. In[Read More…]
Lake Tahoe Pesticide “Ban” Overturned by Local Water Control Board
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. Despite opposition from Lake Tahoe water providers and environmental groups, the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board (LRWQCB) voted last week to allow the use of pesticides to control invasive species like Asian clams and the underwater plants Eurasian watermilfoil and curly leaf pondweed. For years,[Read More…]
Early Black Holes Grew Big Eating Cold, Fast Food
The large scale cosmological mass distribution in the simulation volume of the MassiveBlack. The projected gas density over the whole volume (‘unwrapped’ into 2D) is shown in the large scale (background) image. The two images on top show two zoom-in of increasing factor of 10, of the regions where the[Read More…]
