Students and Teachers at Bard High School in Manhattan Just Say “No” to Ineffective Abstinence-Only Approaches and “Yes” to Harm Reduction New York, NY –(ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: Tony Newman and Stefanie Jones Bard High School Early College Manhattan (BHSEC) is known for its innovative curriculum. Now, they are taking[Read More…]
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National Audubon Society Announces Landmark $10 Million Gift from Overlook International Foundation to Address Climate Change
The gift will help Audubon engage its 1.2 million members in creating bipartisan public demand for climate solutions. NEW YORK —(ENEWSPF)—April 10, 2018 Contact: Nicolas Gonzalez “This is a highly strategic and long-needed investment in grassroots mobilization for climate action. We’re humbled by this gift and ready to put this[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Files Motion to Defend Affordable Care Act Against Federal Lawsuit
Madigan & 15 Attorneys General File Motion to Intervene to Protect Health Care for Millions CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)—April 9, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser Attorney General Lisa Madigan joined 15 other Attorneys General filing a motion to intervene in Texas et al. v. United States et al. This lawsuit, filed in federal district[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Report Offers Recommendations to Restore Health of Damaged Rivers and Streams in the American West
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 9, 2019=8 By: Ryan Richards With the health of rivers in the American West bordering on a crisis, the Center for American Progress (CAP) is offering a plan to protect and restore waterways. The new report is a follow-up to the groundbreaking analysis earlier this year from CAP[Read More…]
FDA Restricts Sale and Distribution of Essure Permanent Birth Control Product to Protect Women
FDA to require patients receive risk information Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—April 9, 2018 Contact: Deborah Kotz The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued an order to restrict the sale and distribution of the Essure device to ensure that all women considering use of the permanent contraception device are provided with[Read More…]
New Report Finds State Innovations in Health Care Are Lowering Costs While Maintaining or Improving Quality of Care
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—April 6, 2018 By: Thomas Huelskoetter Today, the Center for American Progress released a new report on the impact of major state payment and delivery system reforms to lower health care costs. The report, “Evaluating State Innovations to Reduce Health Care Costs,” looks at the results to date of different payment and[Read More…]
Older Americans Are Hooked On Vitamins Despite Scarce Evidence They Work
CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2018 By: Liz Szabo When she was a young physician, Dr. Martha Gulati noticed that many of her mentors were prescribing vitamin E and folic acid to patients. Preliminary studies in the early 1990s had linked both supplements to a lower risk of heart disease. She urged her[Read More…]
Groups Appeal Court Stay of Bureau of Land Management Methane Waste Rule
WYOMING—(ENEWSPF)—April 5, 2018 By: Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, Western Environmental Law Center and Darin Schroeder, Clean Air Task Force Conservation groups today appealed a federal District Court judge in Wyoming’s stay of 2016 methane waste rule implementation. The 2016 rule compels oil and gas companies operating on public lands to take reasonable[Read More…]
NASA Awards Contract to Build Quieter Supersonic Aircraft (Video)
Washington—(ENEWSPF)—April 5, 2018 By: J.D. Harrington NASA has taken another step toward re-introducing supersonic flight with the award Tuesday of a contract for the design, building and testing of a supersonic aircraft that reduces a sonic boom to a gentle thump. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company of Palmdale, California, was selected[Read More…]
National Institutes of Health Completes In-depth Genomic Analysis of 33 Cancer Types
Bethesda, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—April 5, 2018 Contact: Sheena Faherty, Ph.D., NHGRI Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have completed a detailed genomic analysis, known as the PanCancer Atlas, on a data set of molecular and clinical information from over 10,000 tumors representing 33 types of cancer. “This project is the[Read More…]
