GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–3 June 2011.  The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that the E. coli infection that has claimed the lives of 17 people in Germany and made more than 1,800 others in Europe sick is a rare strain of the bacterium. “The strain of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) isolated[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2011.  We don’t know his or her name, but somewhere in one of sixteen states and the District of Columbia is America’s 1,000,000th legal medical marijuana patient. We estimate the United States reached the million-patients mark sometime between the beginning of the year to when Arizona began issuing patient[Read More…]

 WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2011 – First Lady Michelle Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin today unveiled the federal government’s new food icon, MyPlate, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices. MyPlate is a new generation icon with the intent to prompt consumers[Read More…]

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2011.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that a group of medications used to control high blood pressure, called angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), do not increase the risk of developing cancer in patients using the medications. In July 2010, the FDA reported that a[Read More…]

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2011.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned women not to substitute breast thermography for mammography to screen for breast cancer.   Unlike mammography, in which an X-ray of the breast is taken, thermography produces an infrared image that shows the patterns of heat and[Read More…]

Study suggests new therapeutic targets for virally-induced asthma attacks Boston, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)– When children with asthma get the flu, they often land in the hospital gasping for air. Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have found a previously unknown biological pathway explaining why influenza induces asthma attacks. Studies in a mouse model,[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–31 May 2011.  Exposure to electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile telephones could possibly cause cancer, including an increased risk in a malignant type of brain tumour, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today. There has been mounting concern the past few years about the possibility of adverse health[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 31, 2011.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced new steps to reduce premiums and make it easier for Americans to enroll in the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan. Premiums for the Federally-administered Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) will drop as much as 40 percent[Read More…]

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 31, 2011.   ISSUE: FDA is aware of two newly published studies that evaluated the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in women who use birth control pills that contain drospirenone. The two recently published studies looked at whether there is a higher risk of blood clots in women[Read More…]

San Francisco, CA-(ENEWSPF)- A study of 1,455 U.S. men diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer has found a link between brisk walking and lowered risk of prostate cancer progression, according to scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and the Harvard School of Public Health. The scientists found that men[Read More…]