In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
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| Mar 24, 2009 |
''Our Sick Farms, Our Infected Food'' ''Agriculture has fueled the eruption of human civilization. Efficiently raised, affordable crops and livestock feed our growing population, and hunger has largely been banished from the developed world as a result.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 1, 2009 |
''More Readers' Questions About Swine Flu'' This week the World Health Organization raised its global threat level to 5, its second highest, and warned nations to prepare for a global flu pandemic. Additional cases of the new swine flu were confirmed not just in North America and Mexico but also in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Peru, Germany, Austria, Spain, Israel, New Zealand and Hong Kong. And, amid some controversy, the swine flu virus got an official but unwieldy new name: A(H1N1). |
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| May 15, 2009 |
''In patients' hunt for care, doctor database 'a place to start''' "Created for USA TODAY by the Santa Fe medical information firm Qforma, the database lists about 6,000 specialists in the treatment of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and asthma from more than 300 communities across the USA." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Aug 19, 2009 |
''The Media Often Ignore the Biggest Disease Threats'' ''Mitchell J. Schwaber and Yehuda Carmeli's 'Don't Forget the Bacterial Threat' (op-ed, Aug. 12) is a good wake-up call for lawmakers, except that it neglects to mention the harmful role that industrial farm animals play in this growing health crisis.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 20, 2009 |
''America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It'' ''Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won't bite one another.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 27, 2009 | In a five-part series, "When Drugs Stop Working," the Associated Press explores the global issue of drug resistance focusing on how the crisis was created and efforts currently employed to help save the effectiveness of our critical medicines. | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Feb 16, 2010 |
''Katie Couric Interviews Former FDA Commissioner and 'Fast Food Nation.' Author'' ''Following up on the CBS Evening News two part series documenting the overuse of antibiotics in food animal production, Katie Couric interviews Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner, and Eric Schlosser, 'Fast Food Nation' author.'' |
Medical Safety, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 18, 2010 |
''Report Says China Sold Bad Vaccines to Hospitals'' "A newspaper article by one of China’s best-known investigative reporters has reawakened a controversy over whether provincial authorities improperly stored vaccines in rooms without air-conditioning, rendering them ineffective, and then let them be administered to children." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Apr 16, 2010 |
''New report stresses safety risks to Americans from Chinese-made pharmaceutical ingredients'' "A new report (pdf) by the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission stresses the safety risks to Americans posed by pharmaceutical ingredients made in China." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Apr 29, 2010 |
''FDA Faulted in Heparin Case'' "The Food and Drug Administration failed to pursue several "specific and credible leads" that might have identified culprits in China during the 2008 crisis involving contaminated imported heparin, according to a congressional investigation." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
