NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–September 2, 2016. Today Hillary Clinton is announcing a new plan to protect Americans from unjustified price hikes of long-available prescription drugs with limited competition, like EpiPens and pyrimethamine, the drug for a disease related to AIDS that Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of by more than 5,000%. After[Read More…]
Science
Study: Cannabis Dosing Influences Pain Sensitivity
New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. Cannabis inhalation influences subjects’ sensitivity to pain, according to clinical data published online ahead of print in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Investigators at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York assessed the effects of cannabis versus placebo in subjects exposed to a[Read More…]
Senator Durbin, Rep. Jan Schakowsky Call for Increased Resources for Mental Health Services on College Campuses
CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. As students head back to school at colleges and universities across the country, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-09) today discussed their legislation to improve mental health services on college campuses. The Mental Health on Campus Improvement Act would make[Read More…]
White House and California Sign Agreement to Move Vital Salton Sea Projects Forward
Audubon calls for California officials to build on momentum to avoid a public health crisis and to save critical bird sites. Eared Grebe. Photo: Melissa Groo/Audubon Photography Awards LAKE TAHOE, Calif. –(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. Hailing a new agreement between officials from the State of California and the Federal Government renewing[Read More…]
Climate Change ‘Tug of War’ Keeps Scientists Guessing on Storm Tracks
Multiple environmental influences complicate climate predictions A new study finds that human-induced climate change complicates projecting the future positioning of storms. Courtesy of: NASA GOES Project Science Office CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016 By Greg Borzo Storm tracks—regions where storms travel from west to east across oceans and continents driven by the[Read More…]
Patient Advocacy Group Releases Comparative Analysis of DEA Marijuana Scheduling Decision
Concludes DEA ignored critical data supporting safety and efficacy for therapeutic use Washington D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. Today, Americans for Safe Access (ASA) disseminated a report comparing the body of research the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) used as a basis for their decision to keep cannabis (marijuana) as a[Read More…]
Obama Administration Launches Second Year of Every Kid in a Park Pass (Video)
Fourth graders can obtain pass that grants free access to federal lands and waters nationwide for them and their family WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. As part of President Obama’s commitment to protect our nation’s unique outdoor spaces and ensure that every American has the opportunity to visit and enjoy them,[Read More…]
New Research Shows Impact on Women When Politicians Impose Outdated Medical Protocols on Abortion
New York, NY –(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. A new study published in PLOS Medicine from researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Planned Parenthood reveals the significant obstacles and increased medical treatments that Ohio women experienced when health care providers were forced to use outdated FDA protocols[Read More…]
NASA Sees Hurricane Lester Move into Central Pacific Ocean Basin
HAWAII–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. Hurricane Lester continues to march to the west and NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite saw the storm as it was crossing from the Eastern Pacific to the Central Pacific Ocean and triggered new hurricane watches for Hawaii. On Aug. 31 at 6:50 p.m. EDT (22:50 UTC) the VIIRS[Read More…]
NASA’s GPM Sees Increasingly Organized Tropical Storm Hermine — Formerly Tropical Depression 09 Atlantic Ocean (Video)
FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2016. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission known as GPM found intense storms in Tropical Storm Hermine as it continued to strengthen and organize in the Gulf of Mexico. On Sept. 1 there are many warnings and watches posted along the Florida coast as Hermine is forecast to track[Read More…]
