Cigarette use going down while smokeless use going up A Dangerous Trend – Smokeless Tobacco Use Among High School Athletes. Entire Infographic Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–September 3, 2015. High school athletes who play on sports teams smoke tobacco products at a lower rate than non-athletes, but use smokeless tobacco at a higher[Read More…]
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Women’s Health Care Providers Ask U.S Supreme Court to Take On Texas Clinic Shutdown Law
As few as 10 clinics will remain in Texas if nation’s highest court fails to intervene Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 3, 2015. Today a coalition of women’s health care providers represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights took their fight against Texas’ clinic shutdown law to the nation’s highest court. The group[Read More…]
Tempted by That Labor Day Grill Smell? Dial Our ‘Defeat the Meat’ Hotline
Holiday Hotline Highlights Link Between Meat Consumption, Climate Change TUCSON, Ariz.—(ENEWSPF)–September 3, 2015. Just in time for one of the top three meatiest cookout weekends of the year, the Center for Biological Diversity is launching the “Defeat the Meat Hotline” (1-855-MEATLSS), a toll-free service urging callers to think about endangered[Read More…]
Legionnaires’ Disease Cases in Quincy, IL
SPRINGFIELD –-(ENEWSPF)–September 2, 2015. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and the Adams County Health Department (ACHD) are reporting four confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease, including one death in Quincy. At this time there is no evidence they are connected to the Illinois Veterans’ Home-Quincy. “As part of our[Read More…]
Sanders Plan Would Stop Runaway Prescription Drug Prices
BURLINGTON, Vt. –(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2015. Letting Medicare negotiate with drug companies for lower price prescription medications and cracking down on pharmaceutical industry fraud are among proposals that Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders outlined Tuesday as part of a package to rein in runaway prices for prescription medicine. Prescription prices[Read More…]
White House Fact Sheet: President Obama Announces New Investments to Combat Climate Change and Assist Remote Alaskan Communities
President will announce a Federal coordinator for building climate resilience in Alaska, launch a remote Alaskan Communities Energy Efficiency Competition, and announce a city-led public-private partnership to achieve 99.7 percent clean energy on Kodiak Island. Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 2, 2015. Climate change is real, it is being driven by human activity,[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama at the GLACIER Conference — Anchorage, AK
Denali is seen from a window on Air Force One during descent into Anchorage, Alaska, Aug. 31, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Anchorage, Alaska–(ENEWSPF)–September 1, 2015 – 5:00 P.M. AKDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Thank you. (Applause.) It is wonderful to be here in the[Read More…]
Hillary Clinton Unveils Initiative to Combat America’s Deadly Epidemic of Drug and Alcohol Addiction
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—September 2, 2015. Since Hillary Clinton embarked on this campaign, she has heard one heartbreaking story after the next of families and communities torn apart by substance use disorders. Across the country, 23 million Americans suffer from addiction, and only 1 in 10 are being treated. So today,[Read More…]
FDA Approves New Drug Treatment for Nausea and Vomiting from Chemotherapy
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 2, 2015. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Varubi (rolapitant) to prevent delayed phase chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (emesis). Varubi is approved in adults in combination with other drugs (antiemetic agents) that prevent nausea and vomiting associated with initial and repeat courses of vomit-inducing (emetogenic and[Read More…]
Most Americans’ Hearts are Older Than Their Age
Higher heart age means higher risk of heart attacks and stroke Examples of actual age vs. heart age. Entire Infographic Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–September 2, 2015. Your heart may be older than you are – and that’s not good. According to a new CDC Vital Signs report, 3 out of 4 U.S.[Read More…]
