In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
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| Oct 6, 2010 |
''Dr. Oz: What's In the Nation's Chicken'' ''Please take a moment to watch Dr. Oz revealing exactly what's in your chicken.'' |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 23, 2010 |
''Debate Over Industry Role in Educating Doctors'' "In the latest effort to break up the often cozy relationship between doctors and the medical industry, the University of Michigan Medical School has become the first to decide that it will no longer take any money from drug and device makers to pay for coursework doctors need to renew their medical licenses." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| Mar 18, 2009 |
''Legislation would curb antibiotic use at CAFOs'' ''Federal legislation was re-introduced on Tuesday to curb the use by industrial livestock farms of massive amounts of antibiotics important in human medicine.'' |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 17, 2009 |
''Legislation to Curb Misuse of Antibiotics Introduced in House'' ''Last year the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal production made a recommendation that the nation reform the way food animals are raised.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 10, 2008 |
''Obama's 'Secretary of Food'?'' ''As Barack Obama ponders whom to pick as agriculture secretary, he should reframe the question. What he needs is actually a bold reformer in a position renamed 'secretary of food.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Nov 30, 2008 |
''Antibiotic must be used sparingly in the nation's food supply'' ''Three of the NFL's biggest stars have been tackled by something so small it can be seen only under a microscope.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Nov 2, 2008 |
''EU wants code of conduct for nanotech research'' The European Commission has adopted a voluntary code of conduct in the field of nanotechnology research hoping to establish some guidelines in this fast-growing but little-understood research area.
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Biomedical Research |
| Oct 31, 2008 |
''Experts: Possible Farm to Locker Room Link for Staph Infection'' ''Cleveland, OH - From farms to locker rooms, antibiotic-resistant staph infections are plaguing more athletes in Ohio, including the Cleveland Browns' Kellen Winslow.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 11, 2008 |
''Drug industry tightens rules on gift-giving'' "The trade association for drug companies announced yesterday a tightening of its voluntary code restricting industry gifts to doctors, even as the association has been forcefully lobbying against a tougher ban that is likely to be debated in the Massachusetts House next week." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Apr 30, 2008 |
''Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming'' ''Factory farming takes a big, hidden toll on human health and the environment, is undermining rural America's economic stability and fails to provide the humane treatment of livestock increasingly demanded by American consumers, concludes an independent, 2 1/2 -year analysis that calls for major changes in the way corporate agriculture produces meat, milk and eggs.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Oct 22, 2007 |
''Scarce pandemic vaccine to be given in order'' ''In the early weeks of a flu pandemic, the first to receive scarce supplies of vaccine will include the military, medical and emergency workers, pregnant women and babies — nearly 23 million people — under a draft federal plan to be outlined Tuesday in Washington.'' |
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| Feb 20, 2006 |
''Have we learned our lessons about pandemics?'' If a serious flu pandemic occurs, where you live and how well your community has prepared could mean the difference between life and death.No one can say when a pandemic will begin or how severe it will be, but the SARS outbreak in 2003 showed us how quickly a new disease can spread. The 2004 flu vaccine shortage prompted panic and long lines at clinics, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina brought home the alarming reality of American citizens stranded at a time of need. |
