Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011. As sources suggest that Democrats on the Super Committee are proposing $400 billion in cuts to Medicare—$200 billion in cuts to benefits, and $200 billion in cuts to providers, the Center for American Progress released a package of reforms to modernize the health care payment and[Read More…]
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Asteroid Lutetia: Postcard From the Past
Landslide on Lutetia EU–(ENEWSPF)–27 October 2011 ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has revealed asteroid Lutetia to be a primitive body, left over as the planets were forming in our Solar System. Results from Rosetta’s fleeting flyby also suggest that this mini-world tried to grow a metal heart. Rosetta flew past Lutetia on[Read More…]
United Nations Declares Victory in Global Eradication of Leaded Gasoline
New Report Shows Lead Levels in Blood Drop 90 Percent, Trillions of Dollars Saved Worldwide NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011. The United Nations Environment Programme today declared victory in a decade-long campaign, spanning more than 100 countries, to complete the elimination of lead from gasoline worldwide. A new independent analysis also[Read More…]
Patient Advocates Sue Obama Justice Department Over Medical Marijuana Crackdown
Lawsuit uses 10th amendment to challenge federal overreaching and commandeering of state law San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011. Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the country’s largest medical marijuana advocacy organization, filed suit in federal court yesterday challenging the Obama Administration’s attempt to subvert local and state medical marijuana laws in[Read More…]
CDC Recommends Ways to Reduce the Threat of Strokes
Million Hearts’ goal to prevent a million heart attacks and strokes in five years Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011. In the time needed to read out loud the headline on this story, someone has died from a stroke. Every 6 seconds, someone in the world dies from stroke. The Centers for[Read More…]
Medicare Part B Premiums for 2012 Lower Than Projected
Affordable Care Act helps keep Medicare affordable WASHINGTON, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 27, 2011. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Medicare Part B premiums in 2012 will be lower than previously projected and the Part B deductible will decrease by $22. While the Medicare Trustees predicted monthly premiums[Read More…]
Students Poisoned by Pesticides Sprayed on Playing Field Outside of Classroom
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011. Forty-seven students from Edgewood Middle School in St. Clair Township, Ohio, reportedly fell ill after the school’s hired pest control company sprayed the herbicide Momentum, which contains the toxic ingredients 2,4-D, triclopyr and clopyralid, on nearby playing fields to treat for clover and other weeds. The[Read More…]
Occupy Wall Street Joins Residents Against Proposed Spectra Pipeline
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2011, 4:21 pm Last Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) held the final public hearing for comment on the draft Environmental Impact Study for the proposed Spectra Pipeline (or “The NJ- NY Expansion Project”). This will be a 30-inch diameter high-pressure pipeline that will bring methane[Read More…]
World Must Seize Birth of 7 Billionth Inhabitant as Clarion Call to Decisive Action – UN
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–26 October 2011. Of the world’s 7 billion, 1.8 billion are young people between the ages of 10 and 24 With the world population projected to reach 7 billion in five days’ time, actions taken now will decide whether the future will be healthy, sustainable and prosperous or[Read More…]
Occupy Wall Street Takes On Health Insurance Industry
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–Oct. 26, 2011, 1:28 p.m. EST Wall Street’s control of health care is exposed in a march/speak-out today that starts at the offices of Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, a subsidiary of WellPoint, the largest publicly-traded health insurance company. We are gathering at Liberty Square at 3pm and marching at[Read More…]
