Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 26, 2011.  A new online resource, designed to give health care providers easy access to evidence-based information on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), was unveiled today by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) of the National Institutes of Health. With this new resource, providers will[Read More…]

National Infant Immunization Week — April 23 – 30, 2011 SPRINGFIELD, Ill.–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2011.  Each year, thousands of children become ill from diseases that could have been prevented by basic childhood immunizations. Countless more miss time from day care and school because they are under-immunized or inappropriately immunized. To help[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2011.  Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is putting the lives of people living with HIV at stake by refusing to participate in the Medicines Patent Pool, a mechanism designed to lower prices of HIV medicines and increase access to them for people in the developing world, said[Read More…]

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 23, 2011.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the use of Menactra in children as young as 9 months for the prevention of invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, C, Y and W-135. Menactra already is approved for use in people ages 2 through[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 22, 2011.  The following statement is attributed to Secretary of the Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. Originally founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in, the first official Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970. Forty-one years later, Earth Day is now celebrated in[Read More…]

San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–April 21, 2011.  The patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) issued a report card today giving President Obama a failing grade for his record on medical marijuana. The report card highlights broken promises, half-measures, and a general failure by the Obama Administration to address medical marijuana[Read More…]

Atlanda, GA–(ENEWSPF)–April 21, 2011.  By 2020 or sooner, the entire nation could have laws banning smoking in all indoor areas of private sector worksites, restaurants and bars, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found. These places are major sources of secondhand smoke exposure. The projection[Read More…]

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2011.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued four warning letters to companies that manufacture and market over-the-counter (OTC) drug products, including hand sanitizers, that claim to prevent infection from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (MRSA). Labeling and marketing materials for the affected products also claim that[Read More…]

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2011.  Thousands of Medicare beneficiaries will receive an invitation in May to be part of a special study looking at the impact of age-related changes on functional ability. The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) will be seeking some 9,000 people aged 65 and older to[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 19 – Over the past two months, the Sierra Club has conducted tests in more than 30 cities across the United States to help concerned moms and others find out how much toxic mercury is in their bodies.  The Sierra Club’s nationwide hair testing program aims to raise awareness[Read More…]