Private practice medicine remains strong despite increase in hospital employment CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. The American Medical Association (AMA) today released new data on physician practice arrangements showing that private practice medicine remains strong despite an increase in hospital employment. This is the first nationally representative study of physician practice arrangements[Read More…]
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NIH-funded Study Suggests Brain is Hard-wired for Chronic Pain
Brain’s white matter may determine susceptibility to chronic pain Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. The structure of the brain may predict whether a person will suffer chronic low back pain, according to researchers who used brain scans. The results, published in the journal Pain, support the growing idea that the brain[Read More…]
Minimum Wage, Overtime Protections Extended to Direct Care Workers by US Labor Department
Nearly two million home health and personal care workers to benefit WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. Fulfilling a promise by President Obama to ensure that direct care workers receive a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a final rule today extending the Fair Labor[Read More…]
EPA Releases Scientific Study Supporting Clean Water Protections
Report underscores need to protect all waters from pollution Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. A new scientific study released by the independent Science Advisory Board to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supports restoring longstanding Clean Water Act protections to streams, wetlands, and other water bodies left vulnerable by Bush-era guidance.[Read More…]
Mining Company Pulls Out of Controversial Alaskan Gold and Copper Mine Project
London-based company cites high risks in hotly opposed project Juneau, AK–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. Anglo American, a London-based company that was one of two major partners in a highly controversial gold and copper mine proposed in the Bristol Bay area called the Pebble Mine, yesterday pulled out of the project citing[Read More…]
RNs to Bring Message to Kaiser at Sacramento MD Recruitment Event
Stop Pushing Nurses and Patients Out of Hospital Care Kaiser RNs in a recent rally in Oakland CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. Registered nurses from Northern California Kaiser Permanente facilities will pay a visit to a Kaiser recruitment event in Sacramento this afternoon, September 17 to bring a message to the[Read More…]
Sierra Club Announces 2013 National Awards
SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. A photographer who has documented the world’s vanishing glaciers, an organization that has helped protect land in the United Kingdom, and an environmental activist who has been jailed for his opposition to a major water project in South Korea are among the people and organizations who[Read More…]
Space Weather’s Effects on Satellites
MIT study finds that high-energy electrons in space may be to blame for some satellite failures CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. Is your cable television on the fritz? One explanation, scientists suspect, may be the weather — the weather in space, that is. MIT researchers are investigating the effects of space[Read More…]
Canada Declares Farm Use of Neonicotinoids ‘Unsustainable’
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. Last Friday, Health Canada released new measures the agency claims are intended to protect bees from exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides. As with recent regulations proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), beekeepers and environmental groups are criticizing the measures as inadequate, not going far enough[Read More…]
EPA Provides Grant for Organic Gardening and Composting Training in Brooklyn
Community Gardens in Bedford-Stuyvesant to Benefit from Program New York, N.Y.–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2013. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $30,000 to Green Guerillas, a New York City community-based organization, to teach organic gardening skills to a team of Brooklyn young people. The grant was awarded under the EPA’s Environmental[Read More…]
