An MSF doctor shows a lung X-ray to a extensively drug-resistant TB patient in Kara Suu hospital, Kyrgyzstan. Vincent Tremeau BARCELONA/NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014. Outdated policies and practices and critical gaps in care for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) are fueling a worldwide public health crisis, said the international medical humanitarian organization[Read More…]
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Doctors Without Borders Begins Malaria Program in Ebola-Ravaged Monrovia, Liberia
Women pick up antimalarials at an early-morning MSF distribution in Monrovia, Liberia. Armelle Loiseau/MSF PARIS/NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014. In order to address a deeply troubling but little-known consequence of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has begun distributing antimalarial[Read More…]
Anti-Labeling Campaign Tries to Buy Oregon Election with Record Setting $19 Million in Misleading Advertising
Majority Provided by Monsanto, DuPont, & other Pesticide Companies, to Deny Public’s Right to Know Portland, Oregon—(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014. Funding to defeat Measure 92 in Oregon has skyrocketed to $18.7 million, according to the latest campaign finance disclosures. The ballot initiative, which would mandate labeling of genetically engineered foods in[Read More…]
EPA Announces Removal of Two Toxic Hotspots on Lake Superior and Lake Michigan from Binational List
CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that two U.S. Areas of Concern, Deer Lake in the Lake Superior basin and White Lake in the Lake Michigan basin, have been removed from the binational list of toxic hotspots that were targeted for cleanup in the U.S.-Canada[Read More…]
NIH-led Study Explores Prevention of Heart Disease in HIV-infected People
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014. The National Institutes of Health has launched a clinical trial to assess the effects of aspirin and cholesterol-lowering drugs, or statins, on preventing cardiovascular disease in people with long-term HIV infections. This group, which includes people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) as well as “elite controllers” who[Read More…]
Oregon Legislators Working to Introduce Herbicide Spray Policy
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014. After concerns have been raised about the poor oversight of aerial herbicide spraying on Oregon forests, and the subsequent pesticide contamination of residents living nearby, policy makers are working to introduce legislation to better protect local residents from pesticide and environmental contamination. An investigation, which began[Read More…]
More Than a Million People Ask Lowe’s to Stop Selling Bee-killing Pesticides
Gardeners tell Lowe’s: Don’t be a “little shop of horrors” for bees WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—October 30, 2014. This week, more than 30,000 people across the U.S. and Canada will swarm Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) stores to ask the retailer to not be a “little shop of horrors” for bees and to take bee-killing[Read More…]
35,000 Endangered Species Condoms to Be Handed Out This Halloween
Campaign Highlights Scary Reality of Growing Human Population Pushing Out Wildlife TUCSON, Ariz.—(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014. As Americans prepare to celebrate Halloween, the Center for Biological Diversity this week is distributing 35,000 free Endangered Species Condoms to highlight the scary truth about human population growth and the wildlife extinction crisis.[Read More…]
First Vaccine Approved by FDA to Prevent Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 29, 2014. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today the approval of Trumenba, the first vaccine licensed in the United States to prevent invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B in individuals 10 through 25 years of age. Meningococcal disease is a life-threatening illness[Read More…]
‘The Only Way to Stop Ebola is at Its Source’ – UN Chief
Girls in the city of Voinjama look at a poster that displays information and illustrations about how to prevent the spread of Ebola. Photo: UNICEF/2014/Liberia/Jallanzo ETHIOPIA–(ENEWSPF)–28 October 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged countries that have imposed travel bans or closed their borders in response to the Ebola outbreak[Read More…]
