Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reminding health care professionals and patients not to use drugs intended to be sterile that were produced by Medaus Inc., due to lack of sterility assurance. The FDA has issued a formal request to the Birmingham, Alabama, compounding pharmacy to recall all[Read More…]
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FDA Takes Significant Steps To Protect Americans From Dangers Of Tobacco Through New Regulation
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule extending its authority to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco and pipe tobacco, among others. This historic rule helps implement the bipartisan Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 and allows the FDA to[Read More…]
HRC Announces Fellowships for 10 Young Nonprofit Leaders Working to End HIV in America
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, announced its selection of 10 outstanding, young community-based leaders for a nine-month fellowship providing high-level training to elevate their work ending HIV in hard-hit U.S. communities.[Read More…]
United Nations Zika Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund Launched
New York, NY-(ENEWSPF)- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has established the United Nations Zika Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund to finance critical unfunded priorities in the response to the Zika outbreak. The Trust Fund provides a rapid, flexible and accountable platform to support a coordinated response from the United Nations system and[Read More…]
All Sectors of Society Must Collaborate, Innovate, Invest to Fulfil Paris Agreement Goals, Secretary-General Tells Climate Action Summit
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at Climate Action 2016, in Washington, D.C., today: It is a great pleasure to be with you today. Just two weeks ago, 175 countries came to the United Nations to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change. Never before[Read More…]
Interior Secretary Jewell, Senator Feinstein Join Hundreds to Celebrate Three New California Desert National Monuments
Tucson, AZ-(ENEWSPF)- The Center for Biological Diversity, along with hundreds of local desert residents, elected officials, community and faith leaders, business owners, veterans and others, joined today with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to celebrate three new national monuments that President Obama designated in the Southern California[Read More…]
Lawsuit Filed to Stop Riverside County From Swapping Protected Endangered Species Habitat for Degraded Mining Lands
Riverside, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Public-interest groups and concerned taxpayers filed a lawsuit today challenging Riverside County’s approval of a plan to trade away more than 40 acres of important habitat for endangered plants to a private developer — and receive only highly degraded mining lands in return. If the “swap” is finalized, the[Read More…]
First Global Topographic Model of Mercury Among MESSENGER’s Latest Delivery to the Planetary Data System
NASA-(ENEWSPF)- The MESSENGER mission has released the first global digital elevation model (DEM) of Mercury, revealing in stunning detail the topography across the entire innermost planet and paving the way for scientists to characterize fully the planet’s geologic history. The global topographic model was among three new products released today[Read More…]
NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Mission Crew Members
NASA-(ENEWSPF)- NASA and its International Space Station partners have announced the crew members for missions to the orbiting laboratory in 2017. The selection includes first-time space flyer NASA astronaut Scott Tingle and veteran Randy Bresnik. “There’s so much going on aboard the space station at this point, so many science[Read More…]
Watch: NASA’s Fermi Telescope Helps Link Cosmic Neutrino to Blazar Blast
By Francis Reddy NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Greenbelt, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Nearly 10 billion years ago, the black hole at the center of a galaxy known as PKS B1424-418 produced a powerful outburst. Light from this blast began arriving at Earth in 2012. Now astronomers using data from NASA’s Fermi[Read More…]
