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Postal Service Employees Arrested At O’Hare Airport For Opening And Stealing Contents From Packages Including Narcotics

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–May 13, 2015.  Two Postal Service employees were arrested today for allegedly opening and stealing the contents of Express Mail and Priority Mail parcels, which included narcotics.  The defendants, Aramis Brown and Zaphronsia Wheeler, were arrested following an investigation by United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General (Postal[Read More…]

Rep. Jan Schakowsky Strongly Opposes Republican Anti-Choice Bill

WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)—May 14, 2015. Rep. Jan Schakowsky voted against H.R. 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act yesterday. She released the following statement explaining her stance on this issue: “The House Republican leadership is once again spending their time and energy trying to restrict a woman’s right to a[Read More…]

Alumna Introduces High School Students to Her Alma Mater

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2015.   Sandee Dwire has spent more than a decade teaching high school after receiving both a bachelor’s degree in social science in 2004 and a master’s degree in history in 2011 from Roosevelt University. (Dwire is pictured above at Roosevelt with Chris Chulos, associate dean of the College[Read More…]

Roosevelt University’s Yearlong Campaign for Child Immunizations Makes Difference

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2015.  A year-long campaign led by Roosevelt University Associate Professor LaVonne Downey and Roosevelt’s United Nations Association (RU-UNA)  student chapter (pictured above) has successfully engaged the Roosevelt community in raising funds and awareness about the need to immunize children against measles, polio and other diseases. “Roosevelt students who[Read More…]

About 137 Million Individuals with Private Insurance are Guaranteed Access to Free Preventive Services

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2015. Nationwide, about 137 million individuals, including 55 million women and 28 million children, have private health insurance that covers recommended preventive services without cost sharing, according to a new ASPE Data Point from the Department of Health and Human Services. Under the Affordable Care Act, most[Read More…]

A SMARTer Spproach to Stroke Care

NIH study uses MRI scans to screen stroke patients for acute treatment within the first critical 60 minutes Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2015. Time is critical when it comes to stroke, and early treatment is associated with better outcomes. According to the Screening with MRI for Accurate and Rapid stroke Treatment[Read More…]

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