WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2016. Today Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald and Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sloan D. Gibson updated the Commission on Care laying out the current state of VA and the transformation that is underway to deliver better customer service and results for America’s Veterans.[Read More…]
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Ecuador: UN Food Convoy Heads to Quake-ravaged Areas; Some 150,000 Children Impacted
Loading trucks with WFP food for the quake-stricken town of Pedernales in Ecuador. Photo: WFP Media ECUADOR–(ENEWSPF)–19 April 2016 – The United Nations food relief agency has sent a convoy to assist some 8,000 people severely affected by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the coast of Ecuador, leaving[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel Opens 1871 Expansion And Announces More Than 700 New Tech Jobs Created In Chicago
Tech Companies Join Together to Celebrate Expansion of Chicago’s Technology Startup Hub, 1871 CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced that 16 Chicago tech companies have recently added more than 700 jobs in the city. The commitment comes as the Mayor helped open the newly-completed expansion space at 1871,[Read More…]
American Academy of Pediatrics Opposes Legislation that Discriminates Against Transgender Children
North Carolina’s HB2 and similar bills across the country harm transgender youth RALEIGH—(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a nonprofit organization representing 64,000 pediatricians dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of all infants, children, adolescents and young adults, and its North Carolina chapter, representing 2,000 pediatric care[Read More…]
Childhood Sexual Violence Against Boys in Three Countries Underscores Need for Locally Targeted Prevention Strategies
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—April 19, 2016. Sexual abuse against boys has gone largely unexamined, but a new study in the May 2016 issue of Pediatrics compares sexual violence in Haiti, Kenya and Cambodia and suggests that public prevention efforts be tailored locally to each country. The study, “Childhood Sexual Violence[Read More…]
National Cancer Institute Opens Online Platform to Submit Ideas About Research for Cancer Moonshot
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health has launched an online platform to enable the research community and the public to submit ideas on the National Cancer Moonshot efforts. Submissions will be considered by the Blue Ribbon Panel (BRP) of scientific[Read More…]
Healthy Diet May Reduce High Blood Pressure Risk After Gestational Diabetes, NIH Study Suggests
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. Sticking to a healthy diet in the years after pregnancy may reduce the risk of high blood pressure among women who had pregnancy-related (gestational) diabetes, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. The study was published in Hypertension.[Read More…]
Taco Bell Commits to Limiting Antibiotics Use in Chicken by Early 2017
IRVINE, Calif.—(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. Taco Bell yesterday announced it will stop using antibiotics important to human medicine within a year, in a short statement posted on its website. In late January, the Natural Resources Defense Council and more than 80 other organizations sent a letter to Taco Bell’s parent company, Yum! Brands, calling on[Read More…]
CDC Adds Belize to Interim Travel Guidance Related to Zika Virus
Atlant, GA–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing Zika virus transmission. Yesterday, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for Belize. CDC has issued travel notices (level 2, “practice enhanced precautions”) for people traveling to destinations with Zika. For a full list of[Read More…]
Groups to Obama: Keep it in the Ground, Cancel Fossil Fuel Auction in Santa Fe
SANTA FE, NM—(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016. Local, regional and national organizations sent a letter to President Obama today calling on him to keep federal fossil fuels in the ground and cancel the Bureau of Land Management’s federal oil and gas auction slated for April 20 in Santa Fe, N.M., owing to[Read More…]
