Americans United for Life: Ninth Circuit Ruling on Pharmacists Endangers Fundamental Freedoms

CHICAGO, July 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fundamental American freedoms suffered a blow on Wednesday when the Ninth Circuit ruled that an administrative rule of the Washington Board of Pharmacy took precedence over individual freedom of conscience. The Ninth Circuit's decision i...

Cancer Endangers Some Wildlife Species

Effective conservation can help reduce threat, expert says THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer is a major threat to certain species of wildlife, which need to be protected through health monitoring, researchers say. "Cancer is one of the leading health concerns for humans, ...

Plan B Ruling Endangers Health and Parental Rights

WASHINGTON, March 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today US District Judge Edward R. Korman ordered the FDA to make the morning after pill available to 17-year-old minor girls without a physician's visit or prescription and without parental consent. Judge Korman also asked the FDA to consider making...

ALL: Stimulus Provision Endangers Seniors, Opens the Door for Euthanasia

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from Judie Brown, president of American Life League, on the eugenics element woven into the healthcare provisions of the stimulus package agreed upon by the House and Senate Feb. 12 as reported by the Associated Press and...

Laws on Mentally Ill Endangers Public Life

The most brutal fact about the Virginia Tech massacre is the fact that there is no law for the forceful treatment of the mentally// ill until he endangers others or his own life. Long standing laws regarding patient’s rights makes it difficult to enforce treatment by the family or authority for the...

Antenatal kerosene exposure endangers child's sight

A research has found that if pregnant women whose jobs require too much exposure to solvents like kerosene, gasoline,glues etc may be more likely to have chilren with defective eyesight. Head researcher Dr. Gideon Koren and colleagues//, from Toronto published this in Jornal of Occupational health....

Nurses File Cal-OSHA Complaint After Hospital Refuses to Supply Swine Flu Masks for Units with Infected Patients

... continue working and may well become a vector for further infection. We nurses are shocked that hospital management is exposing us to this risk. It endangers every other person we come into contact with--our patients, our family, even management. This is not a time for finger-pointing, this is the time for...

New Consumer Fact Sheets on Medical Liability, Tort Reform and National Health Care

...complished by taking away the right to trial by jury for someone legitimately injured, or reducing the accountability of any hospital or provider that endangers patients. We hope these fact sheets will be helpful to anyone examining this issue." The fact sheets are titled as follows: ...

New Bill to Fund Climate Change and Public Health Preparedness Praised by Environmental and Health Groups

...dison, Beloit). The bill introduction follows the official finding in April by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that climate change endangers human health and welfare, and the introduction of draft climate legislation, "The American Clean Energy and Security Act," by House Energy and Commerc...

Nationwide Cell Phone Ban for Drivers Urged

...etscher added. "And it's legal. It's legal to do something on the road that endangers your life and endangers the life of other folks around you," she said. Froetscher is sending let...

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Lack of Medicare Part D Coverage for All Medically Necessary Prescriptions Endangers Older Americans and Those with Chronic Diseases and Disabilities

Coalition of Patient and Consumer Groups calls for Legislative Action to Ensure Access to 'Off-Label' Drug Treatments WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Twenty-six patient, family caregiver and health professional organizations are calling upon Congress to pass legisla...

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Fertilization intensifies competition for light and endangers plant diversity

When grasslands are fertilized their productivity is increased but their plant diversity is diminished. In the last 50 years levels of plant-available nitrogen and phosphorous have doubled worldwide. This additional supply of plant nutrients is predicted to be one of the three most important cause...

Canadian-based UN coral reef expert honored at world meeting in Australia

...al colleagues presented a stark warning at UN Headquarters, New York, that current coastal management practices are ineffective and their continuation endangers ecosystems that support the economies over half the world's population. Dr. Sale and the report's co-authors said a potentially "terminal" disaster...

Montana State team finds Yellowstone alga that detoxifies arsenic

...ey gained could also be used someday to help create a new type of rice. "Some plants, such as rice, accumulate high concentrations of arsenic. This endangers our food supply," Rosen explained. "Rice with high amounts of arsenic won't kill anyone quickly, but does increase the risk of cancers such as bladder...

Coastal management cooperation, enforcement key to avoid pending crisis for millions: UN experts

... Current coastal management practices are ineffective and their continuation endangers ecosystems that support the economies on which over half the worlds population depend, United Nations University experts warn in a new report offering...

Coastal management cooperation, enforcement key to avoid pending crisis for millions: U.N. experts

... Current coastal management practices are ineffective and their continuation endangers ecosystems that support the economies on which over half the worlds population depend, United Nations University experts warn in a new report offering...

Increasing nitrogen pollution overwhelms filtering capability of streams

...nitrogen runoff from urban and agriculture land-use is interfering with our streams and rivers natural processes for reducing this pollutant before it endangers delicate downstream ecosystems, reports a nationwide team of 31 ecologists, including two from the MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) Ecosystems Cente...

Ecological destruction fuels emerging diseases

...d the extinction of species around the world is more than a looming environmental catastrophe, warns a Canadian zoologist. This ecological damage also endangers human health by turning parasites into "evolutionary land mines." Dr. Daniel (Dan) Brooks, a parasitologist at the University of Toronto, says the ...

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Abbott vs. Thailand has implications for innovation and access

...itulated to the Thai pressure (e.g. by continuing to withhold other drugs), it has taken a path down a slippery slope that industry watchers would say endangers not just Abbott but the entire pharmaceutical business model and the ability to bring to market new life-saving medicines in the future. It should ...

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Umbilical cord

...m the same zygote as the fetus and (in humans)... Umbilical cord prolapse is an obstetric emergency during pregnancy or labor that imminently endangers the life of the fetus. Cord prolapse is rare . Statistics on cord prolapse vary, but the range is between 0.14% and 0.62% of all births in most st...