In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
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| Jun 28, 2012 | "Consumer Reports, a nonprofit product-testing organization, is urging the largest grocery stores in the nation, starting with Trader Joe's, to stop selling meat and poultry raised on antibiotics." | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 21, 2011 |
''Tiny listeria survivor comes home for Christmas'' "The premature girl from Fishers, Ind., is one of the tiniest victims of last summer’s deadly listeria outbreak in cantaloupe, which sickened 146 people, including 30 who died." |
Food Hazards |
| Oct 18, 2012 |
Three Biomedical Scholars Selected As New Members of IOM During its 42nd annual meeting, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently announced its new members, including three Pew Biomedical Scholars. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. |
Biomedical Research |
| Dec 9, 2011 |
''The Surprising Ingredient In Raw Cookie Dough That Could Make You Sick'' "That's the lesson from a new study of a 2009 outbreak of E. coli bacteria, which sickened 77 people, most of them teenage girls and children. The outbreak was traced back to eating raw Nestlé Toll House cookie dough." |
Food Hazards |
| Mar 31, 2011 |
"ON DECEMBER 11th 1945, at the end of his Nobel lecture, Alexander Fleming sounded a warning. Fleming’s chance observation of the antibiotic effects of a mould called Penicillium on one of his bacterial cultures had inspired his co |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 28, 2010 |
"A Pinpoint Beam Strays Invisibly, Harming Instead of Healing." |
Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| 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 |
| Dec 16, 2010 |
"A recently recalled artificial hip made by a unit of Johnson & Johnson, designed to last 15 years or more, is failing worldwide at unusually high rates after just a few years." |
Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| Dec 27, 2011 |
''The High Cost of Failing Artificial Hips'' "The most widespread medical implant failure in decades — involving thousands of all-metal artificial hips that need to be replaced prematurely — has entered the money phase." |
Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| Mar 13, 2011 |
''The fight against counterfeit drugs'' "60 Minutes' nine-month investigation of counterfeit prescription drugs reveals how the dangerous and sometimes deadly fakes get into the nation's drug pipeline. Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Nov 12, 2012 |
Test Your Knowledge of Antibiotics Nearly nine in 10 Americans recognize that antibiotics are effective treatments for fighting bacterial infections like strep throat, but more than a third mistakenly believe the drugs are also appropriate treatments for viral infections such as the common cold. Test your antibiotics IQ and take the quiz. |
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| Nov 21, 2011 |
''Target scrambles to line up new egg suppliers'' "Egg shortages were reported at some Target stores after the retailer ended its relationship with a producer accused of animal cruelty, and the company scrambled Monday to line up new suppliers before Thanksgiving." |
Food Hazards |
| Apr 1, 2012 |
Take Action: Urge the Obama Administration to Strengthen its Antibiotic Policies On April 11, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a series of measures designed to protect human health from drug resistant superbugs by curbing the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in meat and poultry production. |
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| Jan 13, 2012 |
''Tainted juice episode calls FDA capabilities into question'' "The Food and Drug Administration is holding all orange juice being imported into the United States at the border while it tests for contamination with a fungus-killing chemical. The action is lowering stock prices for companies that sell orange juice and raising questions about the ability of the overstretched agency to protect the safety of the U.S. food system, critics say." |
Food Hazards |
| Aug 20, 2012 |
''Tainted Cantaloupe From Indiana Tied to Two Deaths, 50 Illnesses in Kentucky'' "A strain of salmonella associated with two deaths and 50 illnesses in Kentucky since early July has been found in cantaloupes tested by the state, public health officials said Friday." |
Food Safety |
