Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
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| Jan 26, 2011 |
''Potential for 'Super Bugs' in Meat, Dairy Products Alarms Regulators'' "At a one-day conference in Washington, D.C., co-sponsored by the nonprofit consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest and The Pew Charitable Trusts, food safety experts and officials agreed that decades-long misuse of antibiotics on the nation's farms has been largely responsible for the steady increase in e.coli, salmonella and other food-related outbreaks in recent years." Source: DailyFinance |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 11, 2011 |
''Poll: voters support improving school food standards'' “According to a poll of more than 1,000 registered voters, 78 percent believe schools should be required to meet higher nutrition standards for food they serve or sell to students and 61 percent support providing schools with more funding in order to do so." Source: Houston Chronicle |
School Food |
| Dec 5, 2011 |
''Pizza’s veggie status causes controversy in school lunchroom'' “Although Congress recently passed an agriculture appropriations bill that continues to recognize pizza sauce and French fries as vegetable servings in school lunches, local dietitians and nutrition experts say Congress missed an opportunity to improve the nutrition of school lunches.”
Source: JC Online |
School Food |
| May 16, 2013 |
''Pittsburgh Takes on the Food Revolution Challenge'' "All over the region, little pockets of activity are coalescing into a collaborative Food Revolution a la Jamie Oliver, the British chef who champions healthier food in schools and elsewhere. Last fall at the One Young World conference held here, he challenged Pittsburgh to revamp its eating habits -- and Pittsburgh's delegates took him seriously." Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
School Food |
| Jun 15, 2012 |
''Physicist Alexander Sher named Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences'' "The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Alexander Sher, assistant professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz, a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences." Source: University News |
Biomedical Research |
| Jul 18, 2011 |
''Pharmaceuticals: Report recommends measures to mitigate risk in a global supply chain'' "Keeping the public safe in an age of global pharmaceutical sourcing requires improved safety testing standards, greater industry oversight of contract manufacturers and suppliers, and expanded enforcement authority for FDA backed by stronger penalties and clearer accountability, says a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts." Source: Chemical & Engineering News |
Drug Safety |
| Apr 1, 2010 |
''Pfizer Paid Doctors, Hospitals $35 Million'' "Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday it paid about 4,500 doctors and hospitals $35 million during the second half of last year to study how the company's medicines work and to promote the treatments, in its first public disclosure of payments to the professionals and institutions that test and prescribe its products." Source: The Wall Street Journal |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Mar 31, 2010 |
''Pfizer Gives Details on Payments to Doctors'' "Pfizer, the world’s largest drug maker, said Wednesday that it paid about $20 million to 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals for consulting and speaking on its behalf in the last six months of 2009, its first public accounting of payments to the people who decide which drugs to recommend." Source: The New York Times |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Aug 22, 2012 |
Pew's Erik Olson Discusses Delays in Implementation of Food Safety Modernization Act Erik Olson, director of food programs at the Pew Health Group, appeared on both Federal News Radio and NPR to discuss the delay by the Office of Management and Budget in implementing draft rules for the key provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Source: Federal News Radio, NPR |
Food Safety |
| Jun 5, 2012 |
Pew's Allan Coukell Discusses FDA Reform Act of 2012 Allan Coukell, deputy director of the Medical Safety Project of the Pew Health Group, talked about drug safety on C-SPAN. Source: C-SPAN |
Medical Safety |
| Jul 22, 2010 |
''Pew: Law vanquished many credit-card ills, not all'' "There's good news for credit-card users, according to a report today from the Pew Charitable Trusts: As promised, many of the credit-card industry's best-known tricks and traps for consumers were vanquished by last year's credit-card law."
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer |
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| Jul 13, 2011 |
''Pew track-trace call highlights congressional dallying'' "The FDA should have the power to mandate recalls, subpoena witnesses and documents, and destroy at the border any products that pose a public safety risk. So says Pew Health Group in a just published report, After Heparin: Protecting Consumers from the Risks of Substandard and Counterfeit Drugs." Source: FiercePharma Manufacturing |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| May 7, 2008 |
''Pew to Promote Fair Bank Account Standards for 'Underserved''' "The Pew Charitable Trusts have announced a new project aimed at 'helping America's workers underserved by mainstream financial institutions secure access to safe, affordable, fair, and empowering bank accounts." Source: Payments News |
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| Jul 13, 2011 |
''Pew Study Finds Gaps in FDA Oversight of Imported Drugs'' "The Food and Drug Administration needs much more power to protect the U.S. supply of drugs as more and more are made in other countries, the Pew Health Group reported on Tuesday." Source: National Journal |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Sep 7, 2012 |
Pew Scholars Win Both 2013 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Awards Both winners of the 2013 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award are current Pew Scholars; Valerie Horsley, 2010 Pew Scholar and Mary Gehring, 2011 Pew Scholar. Source: Genetics Society of America |
Biomedical Research |
| Sep 26, 2006 |
Carol W. Greider, a 1990 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, is among a trio of leading scientists who have won the 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, one of the most prestigious awards in American science and often referred to as “the American Nobel.” Source: Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences |
Biomedical Research |
| Feb 20, 2013 |
Pew Scholar Reveals Role of ''Braveheart'' Molecule Laurie Boyer, named a Pew biomedical scholar in 2008, has helped uncover the functions of ribonucleic acids (RNAs) that don’t code for proteins. In a paper published in Cell, her MIT laboratory demonstrated how a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) they dubbed “Braveheart” stimulated the transformation of stem cells into heart cells. Source: MIT News |
Biomedical Research |
| Oct 10, 2005 |
Pew Scholar Receives MacArthur “Genius” Award Nicole King, a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences and molecular biologist from the University of California, Berkeley, was named one of 25 MacArthur Fellows, a prestigious award by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to Source: Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences |
Biomedical Research |
| Jan 29, 2013 |
Pew Scholar Featured in San Francisco Chronicle Leor Weinberger, named a Pew biomedical scholar in 2008, discussed his virology research—programing viruses to attack themselves—in the San Francisco Chronicle. Source: San Francisco Chronicle |
Biomedical Research |
| Jan 31, 2013 |
Pew Scholar Awarded Novel Research Grant from The Lupus Research Institute Deborah Lenschow, named a Pew biomedical scholar in 2008, has been awarded a three-year grant from the Lupus Research Institute. Out of nearly 100 applications submitted, the Washington University in St. Louis professor’s proposal to study interferon kappa was one of 12 chosen by the leading private research institution. Source: Lupus Research Institute |
Biomedical Research |
| Jul 21, 2011 |
''PEW Recommends Steps to Secure the Supply Chain'' "The pharmaceutical industry and US regulatory bodies have not responded adequately to the increasing level of outsourced manufacturing in countries such as China and India, according to a new white paper by the PEW Health Group." Source: Pharmaceutical Technology |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Apr 1, 2004 |
''Pew Initiative report examines regulatory review process for future ag biotech products'' A range of options exists to enhance the regulatory review process to address new challenges future products of agricultural biotechnology are likely to present, although opinions vary about the need for change, according to Issues in the Regulation of Genetically Engineered Plants and Animals, a new report released today by the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology. Source: SeedQuest |
Food Safety |
| Mar 22, 2010 |
Americans should not have to worry about hidden dangers in the products they use every day—in the medicines they take, the food they eat or the financial and consumer items they rely on. The Pew Health Group implements Pew founder Joseph N. Pew Jr.’s vision of telling the truth and trusting the people by shining a light on potential and actual hazards in these products while advocating for policies and practices that reduce unacceptable risks to the health and well-being of the American public. Source: Pew Prospectus 2010 |
Health Topics |
| Apr 28, 2009 |
''Pew Featured on Nightline - ABC News'' ''Washington, D.C. - Robert Martin, senior officer with the Pew Environment Group, discusses the two main findings from the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production's report Putting Meat on the Table.''
Source: Nightline - ABC News |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 27, 2009 |
''Pew Featured on CBS Evening News'' ''Washington, D.C. - In response to the swine flu outbreak, Robert Martin, a senior officer with the Pew Environment Group, discusses industrial hog farms and their potential as prime breeding grounds for new virus strains.'' Source: CBS Evening News |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
