Initiative Calls on Businesses and Organizations Across Chicago to Provide Healthy Choices in Vending Machines Mayor Emanuel Chooses a Healthy Snack from a New Healthy Vending Machine in City Hall. Photo Credit: Brooke Collins / City of Chicago CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2013. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Department of Public Health[Read More…]
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Judge Rules In Favor Of Journalists, Unseals Fracking Court Records
Gas industry loses fight to keep fracking pollution case secret Harrisburg, PA–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2013. A judge ruled today in favor of journalists seeking access to information about a fracking pollution court case. The doctors, scientists, and advocates argued in favor of greater transparency about natural gas operations and their[Read More…]
Kirk, Davis Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral ‘Safe Prescribing Act’
Legislation would tighten restrictions on powerful and addictive hydrocodone painkillers like Vicodin and Lortab WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2013. U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Representative Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), along with Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Representatives Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) today introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to combat prescription[Read More…]
Device Keeps Human Liver Alive Outside Body
World first: human liver kept alive and functioning on machine outside patient’s body World first: livers kept alive on device successfully transplanted into two patients Oxford University machine could as much as double number of livers for transplant Technology currently being trialled for first time with humans at King’s College[Read More…]
Measuring Mercury: Common Test May Overestimate Exposure From Dental Amalgam Fillings
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2013. A common test used to determine mercury exposure from dental amalgam fillings may significantly overestimate the amount of the toxic metal released from fillings, according to University of Michigan researchers. Scientists agree that dental amalgam fillings slowly release mercury vapor into the mouth. But both the[Read More…]
Jackson Park Chicago RNs Win First Hospital Contract
Welcome Significant Improvements in Patient Protections Jackson Park RN leaders celebrate tentative agreement. CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2013. Registered nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center on Chicago’s South Side late Monday reached agreement with hospital officials on their first ever collective bargaining contract that includes significant improvements in patient care[Read More…]
Top Grocery Stores: We Won’t Sell Genetically Engineered Seafood
Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish WASHINGTON, D.C. — A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 stores across the United[Read More…]
Dramatic Monarch Butterfly Decline Tied to GE Cropland and Unseasonable Weather
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2013. Loss of habitat to genetically engineered (GE) cropland, as well as increasingly warm temperatures are responsible for the dramatic decline in Monarch butterfly populations, according to scientists who say populations are the lowest they have seen in two decades. This comes as the state of pollinators continues[Read More…]
Secretary Salazar Celebrates Completion of Tamiami Trail Bridge, Major Milestone in Ongoing Restoration of the Everglades
Restoration of Natural Water Flows to Everglades National Park Marks Completion of Modified Water Delivery Project EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla.–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2013. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) Jo-Ellen Darcy and other local officials to celebrate the completion of a one-mile[Read More…]
The City That Grow Together: Community Gardens in Chicago
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2013. As the Spring growing season begins, join the Historic Pullman Garden Club for refreshments and good company, as we continue our 2013 Winter Lecture series, on Sunday, March 24, beginning at 3 p.m. at the Greenstone Church Fellowship Hall, 11211 South St. Lawrence, Chicago. We will give[Read More…]
