NRDC: ‘GOP March of Folly Continues’ WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2011. The House today approved a dangerous bill that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s clean-air safeguards for cement plants, continuing the deadly practice of putting polluters before people’s health. The following is a statement from John Walke, clean air director at[Read More…]
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CDC Finds 60 Percent Increase in Youth Athletes Treated for Traumatic Brain Injuries
Greatest numbers of visits caused by bicycling, football, and playground activities Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2011. Emergency department visits for sports– and recreation–related traumatic brain injuries, including concussions, among children and adolescents increased by 60 percent during the last decade, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control[Read More…]
FDA and NIH Announce Joint Study on Tobacco Use and Risk Perceptions
Landmark collaboration is the first since the passing of the 2009 Tobacco Control Act Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2011. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health today announced a joint, large-scale, national study of tobacco users to monitor and assess the behavioral and health impacts[Read More…]
NIH Study Finds Doctors Miss Many Alcohol Screening Opportunities
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2011. Physicians often fail to counsel their young adult patients about excessive alcohol use, according to a study led by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. NIAAA guidelines for low risk drinking call for men to drink[Read More…]
NIH Launches Research Program to Explore Health Effects From Climate Change
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2011. A new research program funded by the National Institutes of Health will explore the role that a changing climate has on human health. Led by NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the program will research the risk factors that make people more vulnerable to[Read More…]
Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-Old Hubble Data
Source: Hubblesite.org Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- In a painstaking re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998, astronomers have found visual evidence for two extrasolar planets that went undetected back then. Finding these hidden gems in the Hubble archive gives astronomers an invaluable time machine for comparing much earlier planet orbital motion[Read More…]
ESA Finds That Venus Has an Ozone Layer Too
EU–(ENEWSPF)–6 October 2011. ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has discovered an ozone layer high in the atmosphere of Venus. Comparing its properties with those of the equivalent layers on Earth and Mars will help astronomers refine their searches for life on other planets. Venus Express made the discovery while watching[Read More…]
Did Earth’s Oceans Come From Comets?
Comet Hartley 2 observed by ESA’s Herschel EU–(ENEWSPF)–5 October 2011, ESA’s Herschel infrared space observatory has found water in a comet with almost exactly the same composition as Earth’s oceans. The discovery revives the idea that our planet’s seas could once have been giant icebergs floating through space. The origin[Read More…]
Pipeline Influence Investigation Expands to Include Concerns About Broader Web of Lobbyists
Groups amend FOIA request to include more Keystone XL lobbyists with Clinton ties WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 6 – The lobbying and cronyism scandal centered on the State Department’s review of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline intensified today after researchers at the DeSmogBlog found that a broad array of additional[Read More…]
IFOAM Requests UN Require Members to Label Genetically Modified Foods
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2011. Representatives of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) presented a special declaration October 1, 2011 to the United Nations (UN), requesting that the international organization commit all of its member nations to a world without genetically modified (GMO) foods and to identify existing GMO[Read More…]
