New field trials again demonstrate that organic is the engine of change in agriculture San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–December 11, 2014. Center for Food Safety (CFS), in collaboration with six organic strawberry farmers, today announced the launch of a pilot project to field test newly developed organic strawberry planting stock. Government funds[Read More…]
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Patient With Exposure to Ebola to Be Admitted at NIH Clinical Center
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 11, 2014. Later today, the National Institutes of Health expects to admit a patient with exposure to the Ebola virus to the NIH Clinical Center’s special clinical studies unit for observation and to enroll in a clinical protocol. The patient is an American nurse who was volunteering services[Read More…]
Chronic Low-back Pain Research Standards Announced by NIH Task Force
Better research may help address health issue that affects millions Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 11, 2014. Recommended standards for clinical low-back pain research hold promise for more consistently designed research and, in the long term, better treatment solutions to support those living with chronic low-back pain. The recommendations from the National Institutes[Read More…]
Study Finds Organic Agriculture Can and Must Feed the World
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 11, 2014. A new study out of the University of California, Berkeley, compares organic and conventional crop yields and finds that overall yield gaps are much smaller than earlier studies concluded and even smaller when compared crop-by-crop. The study, published in the Royal Society Proceedings B journal, Diversification practices[Read More…]
Lawsuit Launched to Protect Rare Pacific Island Bird From U.S. Military Activity
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–December 11, 2014. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent today to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to protect Tinian monarchs under the Endangered Species Act. These highly imperiled flycatchers are found only on the 39-square-mile island of Tinian in the western[Read More…]
Emergency Endangered Species Protection Sought to Save Florida’s Miami Tiger Beetle From Shopping Mall, Theme Park
Development Would Destroy Beetle’s Only Known Habitat ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—(ENEWSPF)–December 11, 2014. The Center for Biological Diversity today filed emergency petitions to protect an extremely rare, beautiful beetle, found only in the pine rocklands of South Florida, as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act and as a protected species[Read More…]
Investigation: ‘Factory Farms’ Producing Massive Quantities of Organic Milk and Eggs
Regulations Not Being Enforced—Watchdog Asks for USDA to Remove Program Management CORNUCOPIA, WIS. –(ENEWSPF)–December 11, 2014. In what has been called one of the largest fraud investigations in the history of the organic industry, The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based farm policy research group, announced filing formal legal complaints against 14 industrial[Read More…]
FDA Approves Gardasil 9 for Prevention of Certain Cancers Caused by Five Additional Types of HPV
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2014. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Gardasil 9 (Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant) for the prevention of certain diseases caused by nine types of Human Papillomavirus (HPV). Covering nine HPV types, five more HPV types than Gardasil (previously approved by the FDA), Gardasil[Read More…]
Patients Applaud Congressional Restriction on Federal Medical Marijuana Enforcement in Omnibus Budget Bill
Historic measure is similar to House amendment passed earlier this year aimed at ending DOJ/DEA interference Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)—December 10, 2014. The House and Senate Appropriations leadership has hammered out a budget bill that includes an historic amendment to curb federal Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement in medical marijuana states.[Read More…]
Senators Push EPA for Stronger Carbon Pollution Reductions in Clean Power Plan
“For the Clean Power Plan to be a success, it must achieve the level of emissions reductions that the science calls for to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.” WASHINGTON –-(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2014. Today, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) led eleven Senators in calling[Read More…]
