Media Coverage
Media Coverage
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| Aug 4, 2008 |
''Will bacteria develop resistance?'' Could the use of nanosilver products create another problem for medicine -- strains of bacteria that are resistant to silver? Although silver is not used to treat disease, it is used in hospital settings to speed wound-healing, prevent eye infections in newborns and as a coating for catheters, where it can cut infection rates. Source: Los Angeles Times |
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| Aug 5, 2008 |
''Toxic Plastic Toys Could Go the Way of the Dinosaurs'' "Children's advocates say they hope a sweeping consumer protection law passed by Congress last week will begin a broad national effort to shield youngsters from dangerous chemicals." Source: USA Today |
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| Aug 5, 2008 |
''And now, a fee to pay your bill'' "As companies strive to keep listed prices low and earnings high, fees have become a quick and handy back-end way to raise revenue." Source: MSN Money |
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| Sep 1, 2008 |
"The alternative financial services (AFS) industry has attracted a lot of attention lately. Virtually nonexistent in this country 20 years ago, it has grown into a $100 billion business." Source: fedgazette, The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
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| Sep 8, 2008 |
There's no shortage of retirement-savings services for the affluent. But for those who fall in the middle of the wage scale or lower, it's a different story. Source: The Wall Street Journal |
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| Sep 14, 2008 |
Scientists are urging U.S. regulators to regularly screen the health and environmental effects of tiny engineered particles used in more than 800 consumer products, and step up oversight of the nanotechnology industry.
Source: Delaware Online |
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| Sep 24, 2008 |
''Senate OKs Foster Care Reform; Bush to Get Bill'' Michigan's foster children may get three more years of help from the federal government -- to age 21 -- and aunts, uncles, grandparents and other relative caregivers may be in line, too, for some financial aid. Source: Detroit Free Press |
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| Oct 15, 2008 |
''Getting Workers on Track to Invest Early and Often'' As traditional pensions fade from the retirement landscape and workers are forced to take a lot more responsibility for their own financial futures, employers are rolling out a variety of features to help workers prepare for retirement. Source: The Washington Post |
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| Nov 7, 2008 |
"Twenty or thirty years ago, traditional financial institutions fled neighborhoods like Watts, and guys like Tom Nix, co-founder of the biggest chain of check cashers and payday lenders in Southern California, rushed into the vacuum." Source: The New York Times Magazine |
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| Nov 18, 2008 |
''Eating Safely and Mercifully'' ''California voters’ overwhelming endorsement of Proposition 2 in California, a ballot initiative banning the use of battery cages in egg production, gestation crates in swine production and veal crates, shows just how far consumers will go to make sure the meat they are eating is both more humane and ultimately safer for the dinner table.'' Source: The Hill's Congress Blog |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Nov 30, 2008 |
''Federal Rules Separate Kids from Abusive Families'' The best interest of the child' is the philosophy that should drive child welfare decisions, but the rules that come with federal funding haven't always cooperated. Source: Detroit Free Press |
Health Topics |
| Dec 1, 2008 |
If you think of life on Earth as a magnificent incarnation of natural technology, then life has the classic double-edged character of all powerful technologies. This technology has produced a wondrous diversity of beings displaying a gorgeous marriage of form and function on hierarchical levels that span the range from cells to rain forests and beyond. Yet it also has created pathogens that indifferently kill millions of people each year, ecological disasters that wipe out species, and intelligent beings that deliberately perpetrate catastrophes on similar scales.
Source: Chemical & Engineering News |
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| Dec 10, 2008 |
"The government needs a more comprehensive plan for studying the risks of nanotechnology, the National Research Council said Wednesday. While the committee that prepared the report did not evaluate the safety of nanomaterials, it was critical Source: |
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| Dec 19, 2008 |
Report Faults U.S. Strategy for Nanotoxicology Research The U.S. government lacks an effective plan for ensuring the safety of nanotechnology, a new report by the National Research Council (NRC) concludes. The report, released last week, finds that the current plan for coordinating federal research on environmental, health, and safety (EHS) risks of nanotechnology amounts to an ad hoc collection of research priorities from the 25 federal agencies that make up the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), which coordinates federal nanotech programs. What's needed, it argues, are an overall vision and a plan for how to get there and to come up with the money to do so. Source: Science Magazine |
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| Jan 9, 2009 |
''Practical Benefits Drawing Bankers to Unbanked Effort'' "When San Francisco was establishing a program three years ago to move unbanked consumers into the financial mainstream, banks and credit unions signed on because "it was a good political opportunity to generate good will," said Matt Fellowes." Source: American Banker |
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| Jan 16, 2009 |
''House Introduces Nanotech Bill'' The House Science and Technology Committee introduced a bill Jan. 15 about the need to strengthen federal efforts to better comprehend the potential environmental, health and safety effects of nanotechnology. Source: Government Computer News |
Health Topics |
| Feb 11, 2009 |
"The Pew Health Group's Campaign for Food Safety released this ad in support of the DeLauro Food Safety Modernization Act (H.R. 875)." Source: Roll Call |
School Food |
| Feb 15, 2009 |
''Officials Driven to Take Closer Look at Food Safety'' The deadly salmonella outbreak traced to a Georgia peanut company is having an unexpected effect: It’s forcing lawmakers — finally, critics say — to improve food-safety regulations that in some cases haven’t been updated in a century. Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
Food Safety |
| Mar 20, 2009 |
Health and Human Services Policy The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were rightly considered landmark legislation when they were passed by Congress more than a century ago...Our nation’s capacity to protect consumers cannot be met by the structures we have in place. A decade ago, the National Academies of Science called for reform of the nation’s food safety system, and in a series of reports since then, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, has endorsed that goal and made specific recommendations for improvement. Source: Pew Prospectus |
Food Safety |
| Mar 25, 2009 |
''New program encourages low-income L.A. residents to open bank accounts'' "Nearly 300,000 Los Angeles households do not have a bank account, more than in any other U.S. city, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa acknowledged at a news briefing Tuesday." Source: Los Angeles Times |
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| Mar 31, 2009 |
''New Study Cites 'unfair and deceptive' Credit Card Practices'' "A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts details the extent of some of the “unfair and deceptive practices” by credit card companies." Source: The Washington Post |
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| Mar 31, 2009 |
''The Moment for Credit Card Reform'' "We all know what an uphill battle reforming abusive credit card practices has been. As a twenty-five year veteran of that fight, I know it as well as anyone. But this morning, the Senate took a big step up that mountain." Source: Huffington Post |
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| Mar 31, 2009 |
''Congress Considers Limits on Credit Card Companies'' "Democrats in Congress are taking a swipe at credit card issuers and their increasingly creative reasons for raising fees on strapped consumers, sparking a well-financed duel over how to crack down on alleged abuses." Source: Philadelphia Inquirer |
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| Apr 12, 2009 |
''Taking a Page, and a Pen, From Makers of Medicines'' "Free pens — bearing the names of drugs like Viagra and Januvia rather than the letters NYC — litter doctors’ offices all across New York, part of an often-criticized strategy by drug company sales representatives known as detailers, who traditionally go from waiting room to waiting room giving gifts to entice doctors to prescribe their products." Source: The New York Times |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Apr 20, 2009 |
''Practices of Credit Card Companies Under Scrutiny'' "Executives of the nation's largest credit-card companies will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday to discuss growing concerns about questionable practices in the industry." Source: The Miami Herald |
