Euclid EU–(ENEWSPF)–24 January 2013. NASA has officially joined ESA’s Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the mysterious natures of dark matter and dark energy. To be launched in 2020, Euclid’s 1.2 m-diameter telescope and two scientific instruments will map the shape, brightness and 3D distribution of two billion[Read More…]
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NASA Telescope Observes How Sun Stores and Releases Energy
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2013. A NASA suborbital telescope has given scientists the first clear evidence of energy transfer from the sun’s magnetic field to the solar atmosphere or corona. This process, known as solar braiding, has been theorized by researchers, but remained unobserved until now. Researchers were able to witness this[Read More…]
Immunization Requirement for ALL 6th-12th Grade Students in Illinois
Tdap immunization expands to all junior and high school students SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2013. Although we’re just over half way through the current school year, it is not too early for parents to start making appointments to meet next year’s student immunization requirements. The Illinois State Board of Health recently approved[Read More…]
Funds from Atrazine Class Action Lawsuit Distributed
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2013. Checks are now being sent to 1,085 community water systems across the U.S. in the final phase of a $105 million settlement with Syngenta, the largest manufacturer of the toxic weed killer atrazine. The class action settlement, City of Greenville v. Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., Case[Read More…]
Designer Babies May Explain Insect Sociality
UK–(ENEWSPF)–23 January 2013. Being able to choose the sex of their babies may be the key to the complex societies built by ants, bees, and wasps, according to Oxford University scientists. The researchers calculated the evolutionary costs and benefits to insect mothers of choosing the sex of their offspring and[Read More…]
Black Patients with Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure Are Not Being Prescribed Beneficial, Inexpensive Diuretic Drug
Weill Cornell Researchers Report Important Treatment Guidelines are Being Ignored in More Than Half of Patients Studied NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2013 — A research study of more than 600 black patients with uncontrolled hypertension found that less than half were prescribed a diuretic drug with proven benefit that costs just[Read More…]
Panel Recommends Changing Name of Common Disorder in Women
Urges further research to advance understanding and treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2013. An independent panel convened by the National Institutes of Health has concluded that the name of a common hormone disorder in women, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), causes confusion and is a barrier to research[Read More…]
Galileo’s Search and Rescue System Passes First Space Test
Galileo search and rescue repeater signal EU–(ENEWSPF)–23 January 2013. The first switch-on of a Galileo search and rescue package shows it to be working well. Its activation begins a major expansion of the space-based Cospas–Sarsat network, which brings help to air and sea vessels in distress. The second pair of[Read More…]
Toxic Contamination Remains Widespread In the Chesapeake Bay
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2013. A new federal report finds toxic contamination remains widespread in the Chesapeake Bay, with severe impacts in some places, which health and environmental advocates say lends support to their push in Maryland for legislative action on pesticides and other hazardous chemicals. In spite of some cleanup,[Read More…]
EPA Challenged Over Conditional Registration of Nanosilver Product
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2013. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently faced tough questioning from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit over its decision to conditionally approve a pesticide product containing nanosilver as the active ingredient. The antimicrobial pesticide product, HeiQ AGS-20, contains microscopic particles of silver[Read More…]
