WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- The Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association (FFVA), Maitland, has submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers urging the agency to maintain a comprehensive approach in assessing the indirect and cumulative impacts of proposed projects in Florida that require Environmental Impact Statements (EISs). The FFVA emphasizes that such evaluations are critical for protecting upstream and downstream water systems, as well as agricultural lands affected by the more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions NASA invites media to view the agency's IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft and two other missions -- the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory, which will launch along with IMAP as rideshares. Media will have the o more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA Selects Contractors to Supply Centers with Helium NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid and Gaseous Helium contract is a fixed-price indefinite-delivery requirements contract with firm-fixed-price delivery orders. The awards have a total estimated value of approximately $105.1 milli more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- The Florida Chapter of the American College of Cardiology has submitted a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, advocating for the inclusion of cardiac electrophysiology (EP) procedures, particularly cardiac ablation, in the Covered Procedure List for ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs). The organization emphasizes that such inclusion would enhance patient access to crucial treatments and help reduce overall healthcare costs under Medicare.  more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- A physician at the HCA Florida Kendall Hospital has submitted a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, emphasizing the critical financial barriers that prevent patients from accessing beneficial surgical technologies. Dr. Whitney Wilson, a trauma and acute care surgeon at the facility, articulated the disconnect between clinical best practices and reimbursement inadequacies that hinder patient care. In the letter, Dr. Wilson outlined the di more ST