North Carolina’s HB2 and similar bills across the country harm transgender youth RALEIGH—(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a nonprofit organization representing 64,000 pediatricians dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of all infants, children, adolescents and young adults, and its North Carolina chapter, representing 2,000 pediatric care[Read More…]
Science
Childhood Sexual Violence Against Boys in Three Countries Underscores Need for Locally Targeted Prevention Strategies
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—April 19, 2016. Sexual abuse against boys has gone largely unexamined, but a new study in the May 2016 issue of Pediatrics compares sexual violence in Haiti, Kenya and Cambodia and suggests that public prevention efforts be tailored locally to each country. The study, “Childhood Sexual Violence[Read More…]
National Cancer Institute Opens Online Platform to Submit Ideas About Research for Cancer Moonshot
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health has launched an online platform to enable the research community and the public to submit ideas on the National Cancer Moonshot efforts. Submissions will be considered by the Blue Ribbon Panel (BRP) of scientific[Read More…]
Healthy Diet May Reduce High Blood Pressure Risk After Gestational Diabetes, NIH Study Suggests
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. Sticking to a healthy diet in the years after pregnancy may reduce the risk of high blood pressure among women who had pregnancy-related (gestational) diabetes, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. The study was published in Hypertension.[Read More…]
Taco Bell Commits to Limiting Antibiotics Use in Chicken by Early 2017
IRVINE, Calif.—(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. Taco Bell yesterday announced it will stop using antibiotics important to human medicine within a year, in a short statement posted on its website. In late January, the Natural Resources Defense Council and more than 80 other organizations sent a letter to Taco Bell’s parent company, Yum! Brands, calling on[Read More…]
CDC Adds Belize to Interim Travel Guidance Related to Zika Virus
Atlant, GA–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing Zika virus transmission. Yesterday, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for Belize. CDC has issued travel notices (level 2, “practice enhanced precautions”) for people traveling to destinations with Zika. For a full list of[Read More…]
Groups to Obama: Keep it in the Ground, Cancel Fossil Fuel Auction in Santa Fe
SANTA FE, NM—(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. Local, regional and national organizations sent a letter to President Obama today calling on him to keep federal fossil fuels in the ground and cancel the Bureau of Land Management’s federal oil and gas auction slated for April 20 in Santa Fe, N.M., owing to[Read More…]
Secretary of State Kerry’s Statement on Pragmatic Reform of Global Drug Policy
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016 Leaders from around the world are gathering in New York today for a United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem, the first such gathering to discuss drugs in a generation. The timing is opportune. This meeting takes place as heroin and new[Read More…]
FDA Launches First Ad Campaign Focused on Dangers of Smokeless Tobacco Among Rural Teens
“The Real Cost” extension draws attention to harmful rite of passage for many at-risk teenagers Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today it is expanding its award-winning “The Real Cost” campaign to educate rural, white male teenagers about the negative health consequences associated with[Read More…]
Interior Secretary Jewell Announces Nearly $95 Million in Funding for all 50 States Through the Land and Water Conservation Fund
Announcement comes ahead of Jewell’s major conservation address; funding will go directly to states and communities for locally supported conservation and recreation projects Sacramento River Bend Outsourcing Natural Center. Photo By: Bob Wick, BLM WASHINGTON –-(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2016. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced nearly $95 million[Read More…]
