In a Surprise Move, the New Mexico Department of Health Announced that PTSD will Remain a Qualifying Condition Drug Policy Alliance will Continue to Call on the Martinez Administration to Support Access to Medical Marijuana SANTA FE, NM–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2013. After months of deliberation, yesterday, the New Mexico Department of[Read More…]
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Take Action: Senators Work with Industry on Yet Another Bill to Strip Water Protections
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2013. May 1, 2013) Last week, U.S. Senator Kay Hagan, (D-NC), and Larry Wooten, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, announced new legislation that will be introduced to eliminate Clean Water Act permits required for certain applications of pesticides on or near waterways. The bill to[Read More…]
FDA Approves Plan B One-Step Emergency Contraceptive Without a Prescription for Women 15 years of Age and Older
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it has approved an amended application submitted by Teva Women’s Health, Inc. to market Plan B One-Step (active ingredient levonorgestrel) for use without a prescription by women 15 years of age and older. After the FDA[Read More…]
Decoded: Molecular Messages That Tell Prostate and Breast Cancers to Spread
Tumor cells secrete signals that call in wound healing cells to the tumor site. In the process, the normal wound healing cells make the tumor cells more aggressive and able to metastasize. ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013. Cancer cells are wily, well-traveled adversaries, constantly side-stepping treatments to stop their spread.[Read More…]
How Some Cancers ‘Poison the Soil’ to Block Metastasis
Research Shows Therapeutic Proteins Could Offer Much Needed Treatment Strategy for Metastatic Cancer NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013 — Cancer spread or metastasis can strike unprecedented fear in the minds of cancer patients. The “seed and the soil” hypothesis proposed by Stephen Paget in 1889 is now widely accepted to explain[Read More…]
Washington Hospital Center Charged for Withholding Vital Health and Safety Information from Nurses
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013. Washington’s biggest private hospital, Washington Hospital Center, will stand trial in July on charges by the federal government on charges of refusing to disclose critical information regarding patient safety to the union representing hospital nurses. The National Labor Relations Board issued the formal complaint last Friday[Read More…]
USGS Releases New Oil and Gas Assessment for Bakken and Three Forks Formations
Finds Formations Have Greater Resource Potential than Previously Thought WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) today released an updated oil and gas resource assessment for the Bakken Formation and a new assessment for the Three Forks Formation in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana.[Read More…]
USGS Releases New Oil and Gas Assessment for Bakken and Three Forks Formations
Finds Formations Have Greater Resource Potential than Previously Thought WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) today released an updated oil and gas resource assessment for the Bakken Formation and a new assessment for the Three Forks Formation in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana.[Read More…]
Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes to Conclude Successful Tenure at Interior Department
Jewell praises Hayes for his leadership, dedication to public service WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013. David J. Hayes will conclude his role as Deputy Secretary at the Department of the Interior this year after serving in the position for the Obama Administration for more than four years. Hayes will serve[Read More…]
Early Feast Clue to Smell of Ancient Earth
UK–(ENEWSPF)–30 April 2013. Tiny 1,900 million-year-old fossils from rocks around Lake Superior, Canada, give the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other and suggest what the ancient Earth would have smelled like. The fossils, preserved in Gunflint chert, capture ancient microbes in the act of feasting on a cyanobacterium-like[Read More…]
