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Student Chef Discusses Transforming the Future of School Food
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Student Chef Discusses Transforming the Future of School Food
This year, schools all across the country will have access to healthier school meals in their cafeteria. We chatted with Libertad Mendivil, a student chef from Denver, about healthy school meals and eating. The teen is a finalist from Cooking Up Change, a competition in which high school students compete to make healthy school meals that are tasty for students and affordable for school districts.
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Video
Recent Outbreak Stresses Need for New Antibiotics
Recent Outbreak Stresses Need for New Antibiotics
On August 22, researchers at the National Institutes of Health released a scientific paper detailing the use of advanced genetic technology to trace a deadly infection, untreatable by nearly every antibiotic, that spread through the NIH’s Clinical Center last year. The superbug eventually infected 17 patients. Eleven died, six from bloodstream superbug infections. Nicole Mahoney, Senior Officer of the Antibiotics and Innovation Project at the Pew Health Group, says this case illustrates the need for the development of new antibiotics to treat life-threatening illnesses.
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Media Coverage
Interview: Food Safety Delays Place Millions at Risk
Media Coverage
Interview: Food Safety Delays Place Millions at Risk
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.
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Issue Brief
The Battle on the Home Front: Jonathan Gadsden's Story
Issue Brief
The Battle on the Home Front: Jonathan Gadsden's Story
Since Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom began, many American servicemen and women have been infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. While our men and women in uniform increasingly survive severe wounds sustained in combat, their injuries leave them susceptible to life-threatening, hard-to-treat infections. Marine Lance Corporal Jonathan Gadsden’s story reflects the growing need for new antibiotics that can treat these dangerous diseases, against which most drugs are useless.
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Opinion
Biomedical Science Programs Make a Positive Impact on Research
Opinion
Biomedical Science Programs Make a Positive Impact on Research
The Pew Scholars Program and The Pew Latin American Fellows Program support promising early-career scientists from North, South and Central America in the health sciences — particularly young researchers with innovative approaches and ideas. By backing them early in their careers, this program enables our most promising scientists to take calculated risks and follow unanticipated leads to advance human health. Anita Pepper, Director of the Pew Programs in the Biomedical Sciences, explains the benefits of the programs.
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Interactive
Multistate Foodborne Outbreaks: A Timeline
Interactive
Multistate Foodborne Outbreaks: A Timeline
There have been numerous foodborne illness outbreaks since January 2011. Ten of those cases, including one involving cantaloupes, have been significant, multistate outbreaks.
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Make Our Food Safe: The Kyle Allgood Story
Make Our Food Safe: The Kyle Allgood Story
In 2006, two-year-old Kyle Allgood became sick and passed away after eating contaminated spinach. This is his family's story.
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Interactive
A Look Into Multistate Foodborne Outbreaks
Interactive
A Look Into Multistate Foodborne Outbreaks
In January 2011, President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law, signaling the first major update to our nation’s food safety framework since the Great Depression. Despite bipartisan support, and a coalition of food safety advocates and industry representatives working for its enactment, the administration still has not issued the proposed rules needed to begin implementing this law.
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School Budgets, Student Health to Benefit from Higher Nutrition Standards
School Budgets, Student Health to Benefit from Higher Nutrition Standards
Pew and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation collaborate to examine the impact of updated USDA standards for snack and a la carte foods and beverages sold in schools.
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