Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)—April 26, 2018 Contact: Marge Dwyer The risk for preterm birth and early infant death is similar for three antiretroviral drug regimens taken by pregnant women with HIV, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study will be published in the[Read More…]
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Court Case Leads Bureau of Land Management to Defer Oil and Gas Leases Covering Over 100,000 Acres in Montana
Great Falls, Montana—(ENEWSPF)—April 26, 2018 Contact: Kyle Tisdel, Western Environmental Law Center Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management in Montana deferred all 223 parcels subject to an oil and gas lease sale planned for June 12. The decision to postpone the lease sale results from a court decision last month[Read More…]
Autism Prevalence Slightly Higher in CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network
Findings based on autism tracking in 11 US communities Atlanta, GA—(ENEWSPF)—April 26, 2018 Contact: CDC Media Relations About 1 in 59 eight -year-old children in 11 communities across the United States were identified as having autism in 2014, according to a report published today in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly[Read More…]
Peak Health Plan Premiums Give Rise To Activism — And Unconventional Solutions
Charlottesville, VA—(ENEWSPF)—April 26, 2018 By: Rachel Bluth When Garnett and Dave Mellen sent their 19-year-old daughter, Gita, off to college an hour away at Virginia Commonwealth University last fall, they didn’t expect to follow her. But in November, the family received notice that its monthly health insurance premium in Charlottesville[Read More…]
American Academy of Pediatrics Statement on Gun Violence Prevention Research in Federal Spending Bill
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—April 23, 2018 By: Colleen Kraft, MD, FAAP, President, American Academy of Pediatrics “This morning, Congress passed a comprehensive spending bill to fund the federal government. The bill includes several notable victories for children’s health championed by the Academy—increased funding for emergency medical services for children, pediatric[Read More…]
UChicago Big Brains Podcast Examines Truths and Myths About U.S. Health Care System
Health economist Katherine Baicker discusses her groundbreaking research on Medicaid CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—April 23, 2018 By: Andrew Bauld Editor’s note: Big Brains is a new University of Chicago podcast in which some of the pioneering minds from across UChicago discuss their groundbreaking ideas and the stories behind them. In 2008, when Oregon[Read More…]
asha bandele: Prince Could Still Be Alive Today if America Didn’t Shame People for Using Drugs
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—April 23, 2018 By Anthony Smith On the second anniversary of Prince’s tragic death, asha bandele wants us to celebrate his life. “Prince meant freedom for me as a young woman coming of age in the late 1980s and 1990s,” bandele, senior director at the Drug Policy Alliance, said in[Read More…]
Analysis: EPA Proposal Fails to Protect Children from Coal Ash Pollution and Removes Polluters’ Obligation to Immediately Clean Up Spills
EPA hearing scheduled for Tuesday on Trump administration plan to roll back 2015 coal ash regulations Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 20, 2018 Contact: Valerie Holford A new, close review of the Trump Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) draft plan to gut federal coal ash regulations established in 2015 reveals that it would encourage[Read More…]
Trump Administration Prepares for Lease Sale in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Organizations respond with commitment to stand with Gwich’in to defend irreplaceable wildlands, wildlife, human rights and to protect our climate Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 19, 2018 Contact: Rebecca Bowe, Earthjustice The Trump administration has announced the beginning of a planning process to allow for exploration and leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife[Read More…]
‘Scary’ Lung Disease Now Afflicts More Women Than Men In U.S.
CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)—April 19, 2018 By: Anna Gorman Joan Cousins was among a generation of young women who heard — and bought into the idea — that puffing on a cigarette was sophisticated, modern, even liberating. No one suspected it would make them more than equal to men in suffering a choking,[Read More…]
