Rate of brain hemorrhage in stroke patients given tPA isn’t meaningfully higher ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2013. Millions of Americans take aspirin or other drugs every day to reduce their risk of heart attacks or other problems caused by blood clots. But when one of them suffers a stroke caused[Read More…]
Day: March 14, 2013
Mayor Emanuel, Columbia College Chicago and South Loop Organizations Announce Wabash Arts Corridor
Corridor to Promote Creative Assets of Educational Institutions, South Loop Organizations, Artists and Businesses CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2013. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced yesterday a plan to partner with Columbia College Chicago and other South Loop organizations to create public art under the umbrella of the Wabash Arts Corridor, a stretch of[Read More…]
Report: Two-Thirds of Depleted Fish Stocks Rebound Under Federal Fisheries Law
Commercial Revenues from Rebuilt Species Up 92%, a $585 Million Annual Value NEW YORK, N.Y. –(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2013 – Sixty-four percent of once-overfished, monitored fish stocks nationwide have been rebuilt or made significant progress thanks to additional protections added to the federal fisheries law in 1996, according to a report[Read More…]
Murray and Ryan Budgets: Careful Stewardship Versus Mishandling of Environment, Health and Energy
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2013 – Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) released starkly contrasting proposals for the Fiscal 2014 Federal Budget Resolution this week. Franz Matzner, associate director of government affairs for the Natural Resources Defense Council, issued this statement on the[Read More…]
Friends of the Earth Statement on the Progressive Caucus Budget Proposal
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2013. Friends of the Earth Tax Analyst Ben Schreiber provided the following statement in support of the House Progressive Caucus’s release of the Back to Work Budget today: “If you listen to the budget debate in Washington too long, you almost start to believe that austerity is[Read More…]
ExoMars: ESA and Roscosmos Set for Mars Mission
Signing partnership agreement for ExoMars EU–(ENEWSPF)–14 March 2013.ESA and the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, have signed a formal agreement to work in partnership on the ExoMars programme towards the launch of two missions in 2016 and 2018. Establishing whether life ever existed on Mars is one of the outstanding[Read More…]
EPA Announces Cities with the Most Energy Star Buildings in the US
Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York, Atlanta rank in top five WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2013. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a list of U.S. metropolitan areas with the most Energy Star certified buildings in 2012, highlighting how owners and managers of commercial buildings across the country are taking[Read More…]
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending March 9, 2013
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2013. SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending March 9, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 332,000, a decrease of 10,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 342,000. The 4-week moving average was 346,750, a decrease of 2,750 from the previous week’s revised[Read More…]
New Results Indicate That New Particle is a Higgs Boson
Geneva–(ENEWSPF)–14 March 2013. At the Moriond Conference today, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN1’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary new results that further elucidate the particle discovered last year. Having analysed two and a half times more data than was available for the discovery announcement in July, they[Read More…]
Video – Duke’s Stanley Hauerwas: Pope Francis’ Election Signals Solidarity With the Poor
Stanley Hauerwas was my ethics teacher at Notre Dame. Never could remember my name. I was always "Mr. Kerpalinski" or something like that. I remember him well. Brilliant. I did my best to keep up in class. From Duke University: Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological[Read More…]