In the News
In the News
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| Jun 20, 2013 |
''House Votes to Delay Food Safety Rules'' "The House voted late Wednesday to delay sweeping food safety rules that would require farmers and food companies to be more vigilant about guarding against contamination." |
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| Jun 14, 2013 |
''Hepatitis A Outbreak: Townsend Farms Passes Health Inspections'' "The Fairview berry processor connected to the hepatitis A outbreak in eight states has passed an inspection by Oregon and county officials." |
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| Mar 26, 2013 |
''Medical Malfunction: Innovation vs. Quality Control'' "Dr. Emily Senay appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss faulty medical devices and how they slip through the cracks of manufacturers and the FDA." |
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| Mar 8, 2013 |
'''Nightmare Bacteria' Defy Even Last-Ditch Drugs'' 'Nightmare bacteria,' strains of superbugs resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics, have quadrupled in number in the last decade — and have been found lurking in hospitals in 42 states. |
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| Feb 8, 2013 |
Risks Associated with Compounding Pharmacies The Pew Charitable Trusts has identified 20 pharmacy compounding errors associated with 982 adverse events, including 67 deaths, since 2001. Contamination of sterile products were the most common compounding errors, though some were the result of pharmacists’ and technicians’ miscalculations and mistakes in filling prescriptions. |
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| Jan 17, 2013 |
''Jessamine Students Rate New Cafeteria Options from Manufacturers'' "Regulations from the Health, Hunger-Free Kids Act went into effect in the fall before manufacturers could create new products, Jessamine food-service director Karen Barden said. The result was smaller portions that drew the ire of parents and students.'' |
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| Dec 4, 2012 |
''Good health checkup for biomass plant proposal near Lake Tahoe'' The Sacramento Bee reports on an independent HIA conducted by the Sequoia Foundation assessing the negative and positive effects of the proposed Cabin Creek Biomass Energy Facility in Placer County, California. |
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| Nov 21, 2012 |
FDA Faces Recruitment and Retention Challenges The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employs thousands of scientists, physicians, and engineers to fulfill its mission to protect and promote the public health. However, high turnover and difficulties recruiting staff hamper the FDA’s ability to ensure the safety and effectiveness of drugs and medical devices, according to a report from the Partnership for Public Service (PPS). |
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| 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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| Oct 25, 2012 |
''How Does Opening a Casino Impact Public Health?'' Would the economic benefits outweigh the negative health impacts of developing a casino in southeast Kansas? The Kansas Institute of Health, a grantee of the Health Impact Project, recently explored this issue, conducting a health impact assessment (HIA) to identify the costs and benefits to the community. |
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| Oct 22, 2012 |
Supermoms Against Superbugs, an initiative of the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, is a movement of moms, dads, grandparents, and other caregivers concerned about their family’s health. These individuals want to raise awareness about the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in food animal production and take action for more judicious use of these drugs. |
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| Oct 1, 2012 |
Seeking Better and Safer Medical Devices Medical devices range from common iteams such as stethoscopes to more complex products such as pacemakers and heart stents. The Medical Device Initiative project seeks to improve the tracking of medical device safety and to foster innovation that benefits patients. Project Director Josh Rising has a personal connection to the value of medical devices and he explains the importance of the Initiative and the goals of the program.
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| Apr 5, 2012 |
''NIH names Dr. Gary H. Gibbons director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute'' Preeminent clinician-scientist and cardiologist takes the helm at the NHLBI. |
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| 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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| Feb 7, 2012 |
''Recall Reveals An Egg's Long Path To The Deli Sandwich'' "More than 1 million eggs bound for supermarkets, delis and convenience stores have been recalled since late January for possible contamination with listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that causes fever, nausea and diarrhea, and can be deadly in children and the elderly. No illnesses have been reported." |
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| 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 10, 2011 |
''Feds fumble on law aimed at doctors'' "Sunshine Act will make physicians' ties to industry transparent." |
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| 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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| 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. |
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| Aug 23, 2012 |
''‘Superbug’ Stalked NIH Hospital Last Year, Killing Six'' An outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as Klebsiella pneumoniae killed six patients at the clinical center at the National Institutes of Health in 2011. The outbreak was not made public until Wednesday, when NIH researchers published a scientific paper describing the advanced genetic technology they deployed to trace the outbreak. |
Antibiotic Innovation |
| Apr 4, 2013 |
''Rep. Louise Slaughter On Antibiotics, Meat And Superbugs'' "80 percent of all the antibiotics we pump out these days goes into animals and animal feed — cows, hogs, chickens, turkeys and more across America, chowing down daily on antibiotics in their feed. To make them grow faster. To allow them to live in crowded conditions. Health officials are clanging the alarm bell, saying that is overuse that is breeding antibiotic-resistant superbugs that we can’t stop, that kill. The meat industry says, “chill out.” |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 14, 2013 |
Representative Slaughter Leads Effort to Protect Public from Superbugs Meat and poultry producers routinely feed antibiotics to healthy animals to make them grow faster and to compensate for overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. These practices breed drug-resistant superbugs that make human diseases more difficult and costly to treat and more likely to cause death. Fortunately, on March 14, U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2013 (PAMTA) to restrict animal agricultural practices that threaten the public’s health. |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Feb 12, 2013 |
''Pig Manure Reveals More Reason to Worry About Antibiotics'' There's a global campaign to force meat producers to rein in their use of antibiotics on pigs, chickens and cattle. European countries, especially Denmark and the Netherlands, have taken the lead. The U.S. is moving, haltingly, toward similar restrictions. Now the concerns about rampant antibiotic use appear to have reached China, where meat production and antibiotic use have been growing fast. |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 10, 2012 |
''Drug Overuse in Cattle Imperils Human Health'' "Two kids seriously injured in the Joplin, Mo., tornado in May 2011 showed up at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City suffering from antibiotic-resistant infections from dirt and debris blown into their wounds. Physicians tried different drugs, but at first nothing seemed to work. Blame the overuse of antibiotics in livestock, according to the doctors familiar with their cases." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
