Coalition plans to send massive offshore sale back to court after Department of the Interior re-affirmed controversial oil drilling leases in the remote and fragile Arctic Ocean Walrus hauled out on Bering Sea ice. Captain Budd Christman / NOAA Corps Anchorage, AK —(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015. Twelve groups yesterday announced their[Read More…]
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Federal Judge Upholds Ban on GE Crops in Oregon County
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015. A federal judge released a ruling Friday rejecting a request by two alfalfa farms to overturn the ban on GE crops in Jackson County, Oregon. In his decision, U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Clarke found the ban on GE crops is not preempted by the state’s Right[Read More…]
Park Forest Recognized as 3-STAR Community by STAR Communities Network
Director of Communications Jason Miller takes a picture Monday night of the Village Board with the STAR network’s 3-STAR Community Award. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Village of Park Forest joined the STAR network as a Leadership Community in January 2014. As a member of the Leadership Program, the[Read More…]
Center for Reproductive Rights Challenges Kansas Law Criminalizing Doctors for Providing Safe, Common Abortion Method
Medical experts opposed law which threatens women’s access to abortion in the second trimester Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2015. The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a new lawsuit in state court today challenging a Kansas law banning the most commonly used method of ending a pregnancy in the second trimester—a law[Read More…]
State Policies On Alcohol Can Lower Youth Drinking
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 1, 2015. Alcohol is the most commonly used drug among teens, and accounts for more than 4,300 deaths annually among people under age 21. In a study, “Youth Drinking in the United States: Relationships With Alcohol Policies and Adult Drinking,” published in the July 2015 Pediatrics[Read More…]
Medical Legal Strategy Can Improve Healthcare of Low-Income Parents of Newborns
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 1, 2015. In the U.S., roughly 45 percent of children are born into poor or low-income families, and children’s health suffers when basic needs such as food, housing and utilities are not met. A new approach to health care for low-income families of newborns that addresses[Read More…]
Study Examines Strategies to Improve Physician Counseling on Vaccines
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 1, 2015. Physicians are highly influential in parental vaccine decision making, but sometimes feel unprepared in addressing parents’ concerns about vaccines. When vaccine hesitancy leads to delaying or refusing vaccines, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases may occur. A July 2015 Pediatrics study, “Physician Communication Training and Parental[Read More…]
Western Diet May Increase Risk of Death After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
photo: iStockphoto.com Boston, MA ─(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2015. After a prostate cancer diagnosis, eating a diet higher in red and processed meat, high-fat dairy foods, and refined grains—known as a Western diet—may lead to a significantly higher risk of both prostate cancer-related mortality and overall mortality compared with eating a diet[Read More…]
NCI-MATCH Trial Will Link Targeted Cancer Drugs to Gene Abnormalities
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–June 1, 2015. Investigators for the nationwide trial, NCI-MATCH: Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice, announced today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago that the precision medicine trial will open to patient enrollment in July. The trial seeks to determine whether targeted[Read More…]
New Report Highlights Strategies to Move Garden Industry in Bee-safe Direction
Growing number of companies taking steps to protect bees WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—June 1, 2015. Friends of the Earth and the Pesticide Research Institute released a new report today, Growing Bee-Friendly Garden Plants: Profiles In Innovation, which provides examples of wholesale nurseries, retailers and institutions that are responding to consumer demand to[Read More…]
