Media Coverage
Media Coverage
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| Jan 30, 2008 |
''Group Calls for New Look at Abuse Prevention'' Child abuse and neglect cost the U.S. economy more than $104 billion in 2007, according to a new report that calls for more emphasis on prevention programs. Source: The Indianapolis Star |
Health Topics |
| Feb 4, 2008 |
''Why Voters Play Follow-the-Leader'' As millions of Americans gather to vote for presidential candidates in tomorrow's Democratic and Republican primaries, what they are really being asked to do is make a number of policy choices.
Source: Washington Post |
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| Feb 11, 2008 |
Nanotechnology's Future Depends On Who The Public Trusts'' When the public considers competing arguments about a new technology’s potential risks and benefits, people will tend to agree with the expert whose values are closest to their own, no matter what position the expert takes. The same will hold true for nanotechnology, a key study has found. Source: Science Daily |
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| Feb 29, 2008 |
''Drugmakers asked to reveal educational grants to doctors'' "Eli Lilly & Co. thinks you deserve to know and lists its grants on its website. Pfizer plans to post similar details soon. Despite Pfizer's move, it is among the 15 companies getting a letter today from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asking what they're doing to 'meet the public's demand for transparency." Source: |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Mar 16, 2008 |
''Use of Foster Care Down Across State'' "When doctors found fractures in 23-day-old Giosyra Prendes' legs and ribs and evidence of shaken-baby syndrome, Lehigh County child welfare authorities placed her in foster care..." Source: The Morning Call |
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| Apr 28, 2008 |
''Ban Urged on Gifts at Medical Schools'' "Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff and students in all 129 of the nation's medical colleges, an influential college association has concluded." Source: The New York Times |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Apr 29, 2008 |
''S.C. Slow to Help in Home Crunch'' State lawmakers are pushing a measure that would protect future homebuyers from risky and high-cost mortgages. But their proposal doesn't address the thousands of South Carolina homeowners who are struggling to make monthly payments right now. Source: The Post and Courier |
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| May 7, 2008 |
''Pew to Promote Fair Bank Account Standards for 'Underserved''' "The Pew Charitable Trusts have announced a new project aimed at 'helping America's workers underserved by mainstream financial institutions secure access to safe, affordable, fair, and empowering bank accounts." Source: Payments News |
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| May 21, 2008 |
''In Study, Researchers Find Nanotubes May Pose Health Risks Similar to Asbestos'' Nanotubes, one of the wonder materials of the new age of nanotechnology, may carry a health risk similar to that of asbestos, a wonder material of an earlier age that turned into a scourge after decades of use when its fibers were found to cause lung disease, researchers said Tuesday. Source: The New York Times |
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| Jun 20, 2008 |
''Americans want to know about pharma freebies, poll finds'' "More than half of the people responding to a national survey by the Boston-based Prescription Project thought it was important to know about their doctors’ relationships with drug companies, but only about a third said they would ask their own physicians about it." Source: Boston Globe |
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