In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
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| Aug 22, 2011 |
''Hip Implant Complaints Surge, Even as the Dangers Are Studied'' "The federal government has received a surge in complaints in recent months about failed hip replacements, suggesting that serious problems persist with some types of artificial hips even as researchers scramble to evaluate the health dangers." |
Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| Aug 25, 2011 |
''Del Monte Sues FDA Over Cantaloupe Recall, Import Restrictions'' In an unusual move, Del Monte Fresh Produce has filed suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration saying "erroneous speculation, unsupported by scientific evidence" led to a March recall of Guatemalan cantaloupes tied to an outbreak of Salmonella Panama. |
Food Safety |
| Sep 6, 2011 |
''Medical, consumer groups urge Congress to act on antibiotic resistance'' "A coalition of medical and consumer advocacy groups is urging lawmakers to curtail the use of antibiotics in farm animals as federal regulators prepare to propose new restrictions." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Sep 8, 2011 |
''Health Impact Assessments: A NewPublicHealth Q&A with Pamela Russo'' NewPublicHealth spoke with Pamela Russo, M.D., M.P.H. a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, about the foundation’s investments to increase the use of health impact assessments and the contents of a newNational Research Council report. |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Sep 14, 2011 |
''Antibiotic Resistance and the Case for Organic Poultry and Meat'' "Feeding antibiotics to livestock creates an ever-increasing number of resistant bacteria, including many that can harm humans. Yet up to now, no one has been able to say how quickly the damage can be undone by ending this practice or if it can be undone at all." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Sep 15, 2011 |
''CDC awards Davidson health grant'' "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded Davidson a $350,000 grant to study healthy community initiatives over the next three years, Planning Manager Lauren Blackburn announced in Roosevelt Wilson Park on Friday, Sept. 9." |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Oct 5, 2011 | "More than 250 doctors and other health care professionals have signed a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeking a comprehensive human health study of the state's proposal to permit new deep drilling for natural gas across the Marcellus Shale region of upstate New York." | Health Impact Assessment |
| Oct 6, 2011 |
''VCs Take Their Case For FDA Reform To Capitol Hill'' “Venture capitalists are beginning to steer their investment dollars away from fledgling pharmaceutical and medical device companies, a phenomenon that will drive jobs and promising treatments overseas, according to a new survey of life sciences investors ... " |
Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| Oct 10, 2011 |
''Feds fumble on law aimed at doctors'' "Sunshine Act will make physicians' ties to industry transparent." |
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| Oct 20, 2011 |
''Change Your Neighborhood, Improve Your Health'' "When a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) offered a program in the 1990s to move families out of poor neighborhoods, it created a unique opportunity not only to improve people’s day-to-day lives, but also to study how a change in environment might impact their health over the long term." |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Oct 24, 2011 |
''Riding bus may improve health'' "Bus riders get a boost in physical activity just by walking to and from stops, suggests a new Metro Public Health Department study, whose findings are in line with national research." |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Oct 25, 2011 |
''Sunshine Letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius'' "We are writing to urge you to fully implement Section 1128G of the Social Security Act, the Physician Payments Sunshine Provision, which was added as Section 6002 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)." |
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| Oct 27, 2011 |
''FDA To Ease Policy For Starting Pivotal Clinical Studies'' "FDA is making changes to the way it vets pivotal clinical trial plans to allow firms to start trials earlier while still ensuring that the study data ultimately supports a pre-market application." |
Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| Nov 8, 2011 |
''Centers for Disease Control and Prevention'' "New funding will give city and county officials a chance to better understand how policy decisions might affect residents’ health in areas including public transportation and access to healthy foods." |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Nov 15, 2011 |
Commentary: ''N.Y. has to really study gas drilling impact'' "When Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would let science and health concerns drive his decision about issuing permits for hydraulic fracturing natural gas wells, we were encouraged. When we read the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement prepared by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, however, that encouragement evaporated." |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Nov 18, 2011 |
''US bill would set $20m max fine for counterfeiting medicines'' "Lawmakers in the USA proposed a bill yesterday which would dramatically increase the penalties for the sale, manufacture and trafficking of counterfeit medicines." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| 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 |
| Nov 21, 2011 |
''Criminal charges hard to pin on farm where listeria-tainted cantaloupes originated'' "Jensen Farms and its owners remain under threat of criminal prosecution for the cantaloupe listeria outbreak that has killed 29 people, but the history of even the most scandalous food poisonings shows such charges are rare." |
Food Hazards |
| Nov 24, 2011 |
''Food safety inspections give false sense of security'' "A Colorado cantaloupe farm linked by federal regulators to one of the deadliest food outbreaks since the 1920s was graded as having “superior” safety practices just one month before consumers became ill from eating the fruit." |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 1, 2011 |
''Listeria outbreak traced to Colorado leaves damaged survivors in its wake'' "The listeria outbreak from Colorado grower Jensen Farms' cantaloupe has killed 29 people nationwide — eight in Colorado — and caused one miscarriage. Dozens more people, including Mike Hauser, have been irreparably damaged by an especially vicious bacterium." |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 4, 2011 |
''Omaha man sues for listeria contamination'' "An Omaha man who says he was made ill with listeriosis from contaminated Colorado cantaloupe is suing the grower, the distributor, a lab that audited the farm for food safety and Kroger Co., the owner of Baker's Supermarket, where he bought the contaminated melon." |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 5, 2011 |
''Clark County bike-walk plan earns national award for fighting obesity'' "In a press release, Clark County Public Health announced it received Active Living Research’s 2012 Translating Research to Policy Award for its Health Impact Assessment of the Clark County Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan." |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Dec 5, 2011 |
''FDA sees huge opportunities in opening up drug data'' “Regulators and drugmakers need to find ways to make more clinical data openly available, since vital knowledge about fighting disease is often locked away in confidential databases, the head of the U.S. drugs watchdog said on Monday. Food and |
Medical Safety |
| Dec 6, 2011 |
''Childhood Obesity Best Battled in Schools, Research Finds'' "Australian researchers examined 55 interventions in previous studies and concluded that school-based programs were key in getting kids to healthy weights, and there was little evidence that these programs would have a negative effect on young students' self-images." |
School Food |
| Dec 8, 2011 |
''Lettuce from one farm blamed for E. coli outbreak'' "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined that romaine lettuce from a single farm is likely to blame for an E. coli outbreak in Missouri and nine other states." |
Food Hazards |
