Court to decide on legality of “sales” & whether dispensary operators are entitled to a defense San Diego, CA –(ENEWSPF)–November 22, 2011. Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) today appealed the September 2010 conviction of San Diego dispensary operator Jovan Jackson in a case that has[Read More…]
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Senators Commend MLB for Taking Action Against Smokeless Tobacco Use
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 22, 2011. U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Tom Harkin (D-IA), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) commended Major League Baseball (MLB) and the MLB Player’s Association for taking action against smokeless tobacco use both on and off the field. Under a new collective bargaining agreement announced today,[Read More…]
NASA’s Hubble Finds Stellar Life and Death in a Globular Cluster
NASA-(ENEWSPF)- A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars in the outer halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way that can be seen from the southern hemisphere. Aging bright stars[Read More…]
Medicare Open Enrollment: 3 C’s for Thanksgiving Dinner
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 22, 2011. It happens in my family every year during the December holidays: as we push our chairs back from dinner, my aunt asks if she should change her Medicare plan. “I have to do it by the end of December, you know,” she says. This year, my[Read More…]
HHS Expands Initiative to Protect Medicare and Seniors From Fraud
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 22, 2011. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today the award of $9 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to help Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) programs across the nation continue their work fighting Medicare fraud. This is part of President[Read More…]
Canadian Judge Orders Review of Roundup’s Impact on Frogs
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–Noember 22, 2011. Citing the precautionary principle invoked in the historic Supreme Court Hudson v. Spraytech and ChemLawn decision in 2001 — profiled in the documentary film, A Chemical Reaction — a Canadian federal justice has ordered a full review of the impact of the herbicide Roundup on frogs and[Read More…]
Groups Ask EPA to Strengthen Overdue Pesticide Protections for Farmworkers
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 22, 2011. Several farmworker groups filed a petition last week with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging the agency to implement stronger protections for farmworkers, with particular regard to health effects of exposure to toxic pesticides on the job. The petition seeks to eliminate the existing dual[Read More…]
Cholesterol Levels Elevated in Toddlers Taking Anti-HIV Drugs
NIH study first to show effect in this age group; long-term significance unknown Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–November 22, 2011. Toddlers receiving anti-HIV drugs have higher cholesterol levels, on average, than do their peers who do not have HIV, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. The researchers[Read More…]
U.S. Surgeon General Declares Thanksgiving as ‘Family Health History Day’
Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 22, 2011. United States Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin today declared Thanksgiving 2011 as the nation’s eighth annual “Family Health History Day,” when families can share information by using the My Family Health Portrait website to gather their family’s health history in one place. “An important first step[Read More…]
Efforts to Prevent and Treat HIV/AIDS are Yielding Progress – UN Report
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–21 November 2011. Global efforts to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS are showing optimistic results, but transformative efforts are needed to accelerate progress, according to the latest reportreleased today by the United Nations agency leading the fight against the disease. The Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2011, produced by[Read More…]
