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…]
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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…]
Learn Your Family’s Health History This Holiday
Live healthier, longer by talking with family SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2011. Illinois Department of Public Health Acting Director, Dr. Craig Conover, is urging people to share their family health history during Thanksgiving and other holiday family gatherings to help ensure a longer, healthier future together. Since 2004, the U.S. Surgeon General[Read More…]
Unwanted Thanksgiving Guest – Foodborne Illness
Safe food handling guidelines for a healthier holiday SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2011. Avoid spending this holiday season feeling ill because of unwanted guests such as Salmonella, Listeria or E. coli (Escherichia coli O157:H7) bacteria. There are some simple things you can do to avoid foodborne illness. “Two of the most[Read More…]
