Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Our next installment of separate coverage of burglaries in Park Forest. Please keep in mind “‘Tis the Season” for home burglaries. Packages delivered to porches, homes with new merchandise visible through windows, these are targets during the holiday season, especially as Christmas and Hanukkah approach. Please make every[Read More…]
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In and Around Park Forest for the Week of December 3, 2017
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF) —One of my favorite things to do over the holidays is to take one of the young ladies in my life to see a performance of The Nutcracker ballet. I always enjoy the look of wonder in their eyes while my young guest enjoys the magic of[Read More…]
More Than Half of U.S. Children Will Have Obesity as Adults If Current Trends Continue
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…]
Gray Lab Series Serves Up Artistic Dialogue to UChicago, Local Communities
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2017 By: Andrew Bauld Tucked across the courtyard from the Logan Center for the Arts is Midway Studios, home of the Gray Center Lab. Part classroom, part studio, part exhibition and performance space–now, on certain nights, the lab will become a salon for its newest series, Sidebar. Designed[Read More…]
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…]
Prairie State College Welcoming Holocaust Survivor and Author Marion Blumenthal Lazan for Dec. 6 Presentation
CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2017 By: Rosemary Piser Prairie State College (PSC) will welcome Holocaust survivor and international speaker Marion Blumenthal Lazan to share her poignant story. Her presentation will be held on Wednesday, December 6 at 3:30 p.m., in the Proven IT Room (1318/20) in the Conference Center on the[Read More…]
Report Gives Data on Corporate Money to Lawmakers Crafting Tax Bill, Issues New Call for Committee Contribution Ban
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2017 By: Alex Tausanovitch and Liz Kennedy As lawmakers prepare to vote on a bill that gives massive tax cuts to millionaires and corporations, a new report from the Center for American Progress shows how much key members of Congress have accepted in contributions from corporate[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan & 10 AGs File Brief Protecting Funding for ‘Sanctuary Cities’
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2017 By: Rosemary Piser Attorney General Lisa Madigan along with 10 attorneys general filed an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California opposing the federal government’s efforts to cut off federal public safety grants to “sanctuary” cities. The amicus brief argues that[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…]
