Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2014. Frigid weather can pose special risks to older adults. The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has some advice for helping older people avoid hypothermia — when the body gets too cold — during cold weather. Hypothermia is generally defined[Read More…]
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More Than Half Of U.S. Adult Smokers Surveyed Planned To Quit In 2014 As A New Years Resolution To Save Money And Add Years To Their Lives
On the Eve of the 50th Anniversary of the Historic 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Tobacco, Smokers are Still Choosing Ineffective Tools and Risk Relapse After Just Eight Days Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2014. According to a new survey conducted for national public health nonprofit, Legacy®, 56 percent of adult smokers[Read More…]
Ancient Sharks Reared Young in Prehistoric River-delta Nursery
An artist’s rendering of Bandringa, a 310 million-year-old shark originally found in fossil deposits from Mazon Creek, Illinois. University of Michigan paleontologist Lauren Sallan and a colleague say this bottom-feeding predator migrated to the ocean to spawn in shallow coastal waters and left behind fossil evidence of one of the[Read More…]
Cost of Putting Seafood on Dinner Tables: 650,000 Marine Mammals Killed or Hurt by Foreign Commercial Fishing Each Year
Consumers Can Take Action & U.S. Can Protect Endangered Marine Mammals by Cracking Down on Foreign Fisheries Supplying Some of America’s Favorite Wild-Caught Seafood Like Shrimp, Tuna, Crab, Lobster LOS ANGELES–(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2014 – In order to put wild-caught seafood on dinner tables, more than 650,000 marine mammals are killed[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Statement on Asian Carp Management Study
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2014. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) yesterday released the following statement after reviewing an Army Corps of Engineers report examining several options for containing invasive species, including Asian Carp, in the Great Lakes. Durbin joined U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Carl Levin (D-MI) and other Great Lakes[Read More…]
Sensa and Three Other Marketers of Fad Weight-Loss Products Settle FTC Charges in Crackdown on Deceptive Advertising
Sensa to Pay $26.5 Million for Consumer Refunds Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 7, 2014. The Federal Trade Commission today announced a law enforcement initiative stopping national marketers that used deceptive advertising claims to peddle fad weight- loss products, from food additives and skin cream to dietary supplements. “Operation Failed Resolution” is part[Read More…]
Companies Pitching Genetically Customized Nutritional Supplements Will Drop Misleading Disease Claims
GeneLink, Inc. and Former Subsidiary also Agree to Improved Safeguards of Consumers’ Sensitive Medical Information Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2014. Two marketers of genetically customized nutritional supplements have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges of deceptive advertising for claims that their personalized nutritional supplements treat diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, insomnia,[Read More…]
Oregon Legislation To Restrict Home Use of Bee-Killing Pesticides
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2014. An Oregon state representative, Rep. Jeff Reardon (D-Portland), plans to introduce legislation in February that will effectively ban for home and garden use certain neonicotinoid pesticides implicated in mass bee deaths this summer. This legislation is part of the growing national effort to ban or restrict the use[Read More…]
A Risk You Can Fix: Protect Your Family’s Health by Testing Your Home for Radon Gas in 2014
21,000 Radon-Related Lung Cancer Deaths Each Year WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2014. As Americans across the country look for ways to improve their health this New Year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is highlighting radon testing and mitigation as a simple and affordable step to significantly reduce the risk for lung[Read More…]
Major Lake-Effect Snow Event Follows Midwest Snowstorm
AccuWeather.com-(ENEWSPF)- AccuWeather.com reports as a dangerous blast of arctic air engulfs cities from the northern Plains to the East Coast into Monday, snow will develop and rapidly pile up in the snow belts downwind of the Great Lakes. A major lake-effect snow event will unfold through Wednesday as bitterly cold northwest winds move over[Read More…]
