Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2017 By: Todd Datz If current trends in child obesity continue, more than 57% of today’s children in the U.S. will have obesity at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study also found that excess weight[Read More…]
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For Young People of Color HIV Remains a Significant Concern for Self and Community
Survey Finds Few Know about Advances in HIV Prevention and Treatment; Stigma and Misperceptions Persist MENLO PARK, CA –(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2017. A comprehensive new national survey of young adults, ages 18-30, from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds more than three and half decades into the epidemic, HIV remains an issue of deep[Read More…]
Congresswoman Robin Kelly Marks World AIDS Day by Promoting Testing
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2017 By: James Lewis [email protected] Today, Congresswoman Robin Kelly, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, released this statement marking World AIDS Day: “The AIDS epidemic is a public health crisis that affects every American community and communities across the globe. For decades, this terrible disease[Read More…]
FDA Approves First Biosimilar for Treatment of Certain Breast and Stomach Cancers
Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2017 By: Angela Stark The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Ogivri (trastuzumab-dkst) as a biosimilar to Herceptin (trastuzumab) for the treatment of patients with breast or metastatic stomach cancer (gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma) whose tumors overexpress the HER2 gene (HER2+). Ogivri is the[Read More…]
FDA announces approval of First Breakthrough-designated Test to Detect Extensive Number of Cancer Biomarkers
Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2017 By: Tara Rabin The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the FoundationOne CDx (F1CDx), the first breakthrough-designated, next generation sequencing (NGS)-based in vitro diagnostic (IVD) test that can detect genetic mutations in 324 genes and two genomic signatures in any solid tumor type. The Centers[Read More…]
Bipartisan Group of 66 Members of Congress Calls on Congressional Leadership to Protect State Medical Marijuana Laws
Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—November 30, 2017. Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) led a bipartisan group of lawmakers urging House and Senate leadership to continue state medical marijuana protections in any legislation to fund the government beyond December 8, 2017. The Rohrabacher-Blumenauer provision prevents the Department of Justice from interfering with[Read More…]
Frequency of HIV Testing and Time from Infection to Diagnosis Improve
Many people still have HIV for years before they know it Atlanta, GA—(ENEWSPF)—November 28, 2017 By: National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention A new CDC Vital Signs report published today finds that HIV is being diagnosed sooner after infection than was previously reported. According to the[Read More…]
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s OK of Corporation’s Plan to Drain California Desert Aquifer
Water-mining project would deplete life-giving springs in the Mojave Trails National Monument Los Angeles, California—(ENEWSPF)—November 28, 2017 By: Greg Loarie, Ileene Anderson, and Adam Keats Conservation and health-safety groups today filed suit in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s approval of an enormous groundwater-mining and pipeline project in Southern California.[Read More…]
Records Sought on Trump Administration Decision to Lift Ban on Zimbabwe Elephant Trophy Imports
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 28, 2017 By: Brett Hartl The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a Freedom of Information Act request today seeking public records about an African trip taken by President Trump’s director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just days before the administration reversed an Obama-era ban on important[Read More…]
Story of the Landscape Hike at Thorn Creek Nature Center on Sunday, December 3
Registration required by Friday, December 1 Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—November 27, 2017 By: Judy Dolan Mendelson Find out what the slopes, depressions, stream channels, and tree communities in Thorn Creek Woods can tell us on the Story of the Landscape Hike held Sunday, December 3 from 1 to 3 p.m. In[Read More…]
