Americans are exposed daily to these chemicals found in consumer products WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2016. The nation’s new chemical safety law promises to give the Environmental Protection Agency expanded authority to regulate hazardous chemicals in consumer products. But of the tens of thousands of chemicals on the market, most never[Read More…]
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Uncovering a New Principle in Chemotherapy Resistance in Breast Cancer
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2016. A laboratory study has revealed an entirely unexpected process for acquiring drug resistance that bypasses the need to re-establish DNA damage repair in breast cancers that have mutant BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. The findings, reported by Andre Nussenzweig, Ph.D., and Shyam Sharan, Ph.D., at the National[Read More…]
HUD Awards More Than $52 Million to Protect Children and Families from Dangerous Lead and Other Home Hazards
Funding to make low-income housing safer and healthier WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–July 20, 2016. To protect children and families from the hazards of lead-based paint and from other home health and safety hazards, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today awarded more than $52.6 million in Lead Based[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Issues Recommendations to Improve Safety and Reduce Health Hazards Where Low-Income Families Live
A man walks past a blighted building in the Penn-North neighborhood of Baltimore, with a residential tower in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood in the background at top right, on May 9, 2015. Source: AP/Patrick Semansky Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–July 20, 2016. A new report released today by the Center for American[Read More…]
CDC Awards $60 Million to Help States and Territories Battle Zika
Funding is stopgap measure to help states respond to emerging threat, protect pregnant women Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2016. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will begin making awards totaling nearly $60 million to states, cities, and territories to support efforts to protect Americans from Zika virus disease and[Read More…]
Obama Administration Announces Clean Energy Savings for All Americans Initiative (Video)
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 19, 2016. President Obama is committed to ensuring that every American family can choose to go solar and to cut their energy bills – and that every American community has the tools they need to tackle local air pollution and global climate change. Since President Obama took office,[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Sends Letter to DEA Calling for Stricter Limits of Opioid Pills
CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–July 19, 2016. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today released a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), calling on the agency to use its power to more aggressively combat the opioid epidemic that is affecting communities across Illinois and the country. With its existing quota-setting authority, DEA[Read More…]
Statement on FDA Investigation of WEN by Chaz Dean Cleansing Conditioners
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–July 19, 2016. The FDA is investigating reports of hair loss, hair breakage, balding, itching, and rash associated with the use of WEN by Chaz Dean Cleansing Conditioner products. While the FDA continues its investigation, consumers should be aware of reactions reported in association with the use of WEN[Read More…]
Protein Found to Bolster Growth of Damaged Muscle Tissue
Johns Hopkins University biologists’ research could lead to treatments for disease Baltimore, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–July 19, 2016. Johns Hopkins University biologists have found that a protein that plays a key role in the lives of stem cells can bolster the growth of damaged muscle tissue, a step that could potentially contribute to[Read More…]
NASA’s Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission
Artist concept. A crop of more than 100 planets, discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, includes four in Earth’s size-range orbiting a single dwarf star. Two of these planets are too hot to support life as we know it, but two are in the star’s “habitable” zone, where liquid water[Read More…]
