Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
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| May 9, 2013 |
Seven Pew Scholars Named HHMI Investigators On May 9, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced that 27 of the nation’s top biomedical researchers—including seven Pew scholars—will become HHMI investigators and will receive the flexible support necessary to move their research in creative new directions. The Pew scholars named HHMI investigators are Peter Baumann (2003), Michael Dyer (2004), Nicole King (2004), Tirin Moore (2004), Dyche Mullins (2000), Michael Rape (2007), and Rachel Wilson (2005). Source: Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Biomedical Research |
| May 11, 2005 |
''Seven Pew Biomedical Scholars are Named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators'' "Launched in 1985, the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides four years of crucial support to fifteen investigators in the early to mid stages of their careers who show outstanding promise in the basic and clinical sciences. This year seven Pew Scholars, along with 36 other promising biomedical scientists, were named Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigators." Source: HHMI News |
Biomedical Research |
| Jun 14, 2011 |
''Senators Seek More Disclosure For Business Credit Cards'' "Four Senators today called for more disclosure on business credit card offers so cardholders will understand that business cards are not protected by the same laws as regular consumer cards that bar practices like retroactive interest rate hikes." Source: Bloomberg Businessweek |
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| May 10, 2013 |
''Senators Say They Are Close to Writing a Final Pharmacy Compounding Bill'' "U.S. senators considering fundamental changes to how the practice of pharmacy compounding is regulated heard almost unanimous support for reform at a Washington committee hearing Thursday." Source: The Kansas City Star |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Sep 9, 2011 |
''Senate panel wants quick FDA action on drug-resistant diseases'' "The agriculture spending bill that Senate appropriators unanimously approved Wednesday directs regulators to hurry up with their recommendations for limiting the use of antibiotics in farm animals." Source: The Hill -- Healthwatch |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Yesterday |
''Senate Panel Approves Tighter Oversight of Compounding Pharmacies, but Bill is Under Fire'' Public health and consumer advocacy groups are attacking Senate legislation designed to tighten oversight of specialized pharmacies such as the one at the center of this past fall’s deadly meningitis outbreak, saying it does not adequately address health risks. Source: The Washington Post |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Sep 24, 2008 |
''Senate OKs Foster Care Reform; Bush to Get Bill'' Michigan's foster children may get three more years of help from the federal government -- to age 21 -- and aunts, uncles, grandparents and other relative caregivers may be in line, too, for some financial aid. Source: Detroit Free Press |
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| May 10, 2013 |
''Senate Moves Closer to Law to Prevent More Pharmacy Outbreaks'' "At least 67 people have died in 20 outbreaks caused by contaminated drugs since 2001, experts told a Senate hearing Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration says there have likely been more cases than that, but they have no way of telling now." Source: NBC News |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| May 24, 2012 |
''Senate bill aims to increase drug import safety'' "U.S. regulators would inspect more drug manufacturing facilities in China, India and other foreign countries as part of legislation approved Thursday that aims to step up oversight of the nation's imported pharmaceutical supply." Source: Associated Press |
Drug Safety |
| Jul 27, 2012 |
"There are serious weaknesses in a system that allows firms to self-affirm the safety of food ingredients without the approval or knowledge of regulators, according to researchers conducting a probe into the nation’s food additives law." Source: Food Navigator |
Food Additives |
| Aug 20, 2010 |
''Second Farm Recalls Ten Million Eggs'' ''A second Iowa farm, which ships to stores in 14 states, is recalling at least 10 million eggs that are possibly tainted with salmonella.''
Source: CBS News |
Food Safety |
| Sep 14, 2008 |
Scientists are urging U.S. regulators to regularly screen the health and environmental effects of tiny engineered particles used in more than 800 consumer products, and step up oversight of the nanotechnology industry.
Source: Delaware Online |
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| Nov 6, 2011 |
''Schools track safety of food from farm to plate'' “Ecker’s Apple Farm apples are cooled, soaked and polished before being shipped off to Coulee Region schools.” Source: La Crosse Tribune |
School Food |
| Apr 5, 2013 |
''Schools Recognized for Nutrition, Health Programs'' The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Healthier U.S. School Challenge honored eleven elementary schools for promoting a health learning environment through school nutrition and exercise. Source: The Garden City Telegram |
School Food |
| Dec 5, 2011 |
''Schools put focus on healthy choices'' “As Congress fights over the legitimacy of tomato paste and pizza sauce as a serving of vegetables in school lunches, area private schools are taking the matter of children’s nutrition into their own hands.” Source: News-Press |
School Food |
| Apr 5, 2013 |
''Schools Hungry to Improve Taste, Nutrition of Lunches'' School foods are put to the "taste test" during an annual food event in Prince William County. Find out how students rated these nutritious meals. Source: USA Today |
School Food |
| Apr 2, 2013 |
''School Lunches: The New Battlefront in the War Against Obesity'' ''With one in three American children considered overweight or obese — and the trend dangerously upward — the federal government has launched a new campaign this school year to strengthen nutritional requirements for school lunches." Source: The Miami Herald |
School Food |
| Dec 5, 2011 |
''School Lunches: How The Food Industry Controls Student Meals'' “In a biting piece in The New York Times Sunday, investigative reporter Lucy Komisar offers an in-depth look at how the food in-depth look at how the food industry — and its complex web of internal alliances — is taking over school meals." Source: The Huffington Post |
School Food |
| Jan 26, 2012 |
''School lunches to have more veggies, whole grains'' "Millions of students across the country should have similar healthy options in the years to come under the first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years." Source: Kearney Hub |
School Food |
| Jul 9, 2012 |
''School lunches healthier, Administrators work to balance nutrition with appeal to students'' "A study released late last month delivers the message: Make competitive foods offered in schools healthier, too. The study was a collaboration between the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and came from two projects, the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project – the director, Jessica Donze Black, is a University of Delaware graduate – and the Health Impact Project." Source: The News Journal |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Nov 18, 2011 |
''School Food Politics: What’s Missing from the Pizza-as-Vegetable Reporting'' “Over the last couple of days, news outlets have been having a field day with a proposal from Congress that pizza sauce be considered a vegetable to qualify for the National School Lunch program." Source: Food Safety News |
School Food |
| Apr 27, 2009 |
''Save Antibiotics to Save Human Lives'' ''In 2005, an estimated 18,000 people nationwide died from MRSA, one of the growing number of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.'' Source: Public News Service |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 5, 2011 |
''Salmonella Strain In Turkey Recall Resists Antibiotics'' Gail Hansen, senior officer at Pew Health Group, is interviewed in an NPR segment about the debate on the practice of dosing farm animals with antibiotics. Source: National Public Radio |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 2, 2012 |
''Salad bars are a hit at Hurst-Euless-Bedford elementary schools'' "As part of a plan to promote health, introduce children to fresh fruits and vegetables and wean them off junk food, the Hurst-Euless-Bedford district is adding salad bars to elementary schools." Source: Star-Telegram |
School Food |
| Sep 19, 2011 |
''Safety of Foreign-Made Prescription Drugs'' "Allan Coukell talked about the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) report on the make-up of prescription drugs, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications." Source: C-SPAN |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
