Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
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| Mar 17, 2013 |
2011 Pew Scholar is One of ''America's Best and Brightest Minds'' In celebration of what would have been Albert Einstein’s 134th birthday, FoxNews.com ran an article highlighting young researchers, including 2011 Pew scholar Ann Morris. Thanks to her creative research on vision in zebrafish, Dr. Morris was mentioned among scientists who are “poised to change the way we live today, and will continue to influence our culture in the coming decades. Source: Fox News |
Biomedical Research |
| Feb 6, 2013 |
2011 Pew Scholar Uncovers Clues to Cancer and the Aging Process 2011 Pew Scholar Eros Lazzarni Denchi, an assistant professor at Scripps Research Institute, has uncovered the details of a protein that help keep chromosomes from sticking together. In a paper published online ahead of print in Nature, Dr. Denchi described how the protein TRF2 actively and passively suppresses DNA repair machinery that would fuse chromosomes together. This work has significant implications for our understanding of cancer and the aging process. Source: Scripps Research Institute |
Biomedical Research |
| Feb 28, 2013 |
Jeff Gore, 2011 Pew Scholar and assistant professor of physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has won the Paul Allen Distinguished Investigators Award to Unlock Fundamental Questions in Biology. The award, announced today by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, provides $7.5 million in exploratory grant funding to a carefully selected group of scientists who will embark on five new pioneering research projects that aim to unlock fundamental questions in biology. Dr. Gore will use single-celled yeast to explore how ideas from game theory can provide insight into cellular decision making. Source: The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation |
Biomedical Research |
| Apr 2, 2013 |
2012 Pew Scholar Earns ARI Young Investigator Grant Salil Lachke, a 2012 Pew scholar and assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Delaware, has been selected by the Alcon Research Institute as a 2013 Young Investigator. As one of just eight researchers worldwide to receive the $50,000 grant, Dr. Lachke will continue his work on an online tool he created to discover genes related to glaucoma and other eye diseases. Source: UDaily |
Biomedical Research |
| Jul 1, 2013 |
2012 Pew Scholar Profiled in The Scientist Peter Cornish, a 2012 Pew scholar and assistant professor at University of Missouri’s Department of Biochemistry, is featured in a profile in The Scientist magazine.Source: The Scientist |
Biomedical Research |
| Jun 13, 2013 |
2012 Pew Scholar Receives Grant to Study Cataracts in Infants Salil Lachke, a 2012 Pew scholar and assistant professor in University of Delaware’s Department of Biological Sciences, has received a $60,000 grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. As one of 19 researchers across the country to receive this award, he aims to identify biological pathways leading to genetic cataracts.Source: UDaily |
Biomedical Research |
| Mar 11, 2013 |
2012 Scholar Profiled in National Geographic Dinu Florin Albeanu, a 2012 Pew Scholar, was profiled in National Geographic’s “Only Human” series, which highlighted his success as a Romanian scientist. Having lived in Bucharest for most of his life, Dr. Albeanu recognizes the challenges facing Romania’s scientific enterprise. Since relocating to the United States, the assistant professor of neurology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has co-founded a summer program for aspiring neurologists in Romania. Source: National Geographic |
Biomedical Research |
| Nov 10, 2009 |
''3 Years After E. Coli Outbreak, Is Spinach Safer?'' ''Three years after an E. coli outbreak, thought to be linked to spinach, took three lives and left 205 people sick, ABC's "Good Morning America" discovered that while the industry instituted new safety standards to prevent bacterial contamination, there are no requirements to test salad products before they get to market.'' Source: ABC's Good Morning America |
Food Hazards |
| Jan 2, 2013 |
A Mother's Plea for Swifter Implementation of Food Safety Regulations An opinion editorial written by Kathleen Chrismer about the need for swift approval and implementation of new food safety regulations. Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal |
Food Safety |
| Dec 12, 2011 |
''A Real Choice for Parents on Their Kids’ Health'' “At a time when 21 million students across the U.S. are receiving free or low-cost school lunches, Congress has voted to block new guidelines that would have limited the use of potatoes and sodium in the National School Lunch Program.” Source: The Huffington Post |
School Food |
| Feb 13, 2012 |
''A Squeeze on Customers Ahead of New Rules'' "Banks are struggling to make money in the credit card business these days, and consumers are paying the price. Interest rates are going up, credit lines are being cut and a variety of new fees are being imposed on even the best cardholders." Source: The New York Times |
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| Oct 21, 2011 |
Aaron Wernham to Lead HIA Training, Sessions at Upcoming American Public Health Association Meeting Health Impact Project director Aaron Wernham will lead a training and two sessions at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Read more about HIA at this year’s APHA meeting. Source: Health Impact Project |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Sep 1, 2011 |
The National Research Council will release the report “Improving Health in the United States The Role of Health Impact Assessment.” The report assesses the potential value of conducting health impact assessments of proposed policies, programs, and projects in topics such as transportation, land use, housing, agriculture. Source: Health Impact Project |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Apr 30, 2009 |
''About That New, 'Friendly' Consumer Contract'' "Out of the ashes of the financial crisis small flowers are beginning to bloom. One is an initiative in Washington—and among some companies—to curb ambiguous and sometimes abusive consumer contracts, especially in the credit-card industry. But before anyone celebrates the budding reforms, it's worth looking at how an earlier campaign to clean up customer agreements led right back to confusion and frustration." Source: Bloomberg Businessweek |
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| Aug 18, 2009 |
''Activists Focus on Conflicts of Interest Among Doctors With Ties to Industry'' "94 percent of physicians have 'a relationship' with the pharmaceutical, medical device or other related industries, according to a national survey of physicians published two years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine." Source: The Washington Post |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Dec 24, 2011 |
''Advocate favors new disclosure rules for payments to doctors'' "Proposed federal regulations requiring disclosure of payments by pharmaceutical companies to doctors for such activities as speaking, consulting and research were called a "good start" by an advocate for more accountability." Source: Democrat and Chronicle |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Oct 29, 2009 |
''After credit card outrage, Ohio couple gets relief'' ''Chuck and Jeanne Lane got some good news earlier this week: After more than doubling the Lanes' monthly minimum payment, their credit card company is now slashing their payment." Source: CNN Politics |
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| Jan 7, 2013 |
''After Year-Long Delay, FDA Proposes Major Regulations For Food Safety'' "For the first time in 70 years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released two major requirements for improving food safety. On Friday, the FDA released two draft rule proposals for food safety that will allow the FDA to shift its focus on preventing, rather than simply reacting, to food borne illnesses." Source: Time.com |
Food Safety |
| Jun 15, 2012 |
''Alexander Statsuk Honored by Pew Charitable Trusts'' "The Pew Charitable Trusts have named Northwestern University chemical biologist Alexander V. Statsuk a 2012 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences." Source: Northwestern University web site News Center |
Biomedical Research |
| May 10, 2013 |
''Algonac High School Students Enjoy Sample Menu Items'' "Representatives from National Food Group handed out samples of what could be on next year’s menu. Students sampled beef barbacoa with roasted vegetables, whole grain cheese ravioli with chunky marinara sauce and baked cod filet. Other items were cranberry oatmeal bars and breakfast items oatmeal chocolate vertical bars and berry apple crisp vertical bar." Source: Times Herald |
School Food |
| Jul 9, 2013 |
"The legislation requiring public disclosure of the financial relationships between healthcare vendors and physicians has been widely discussed in policy circles for years. Critics claimed payments for speaking, consulting, research or even the small trinkets and meals delivered during routine sales calls unduly influenced physician choices and inflated healthcare costs. To combat those effects, Congress required public reporting of those payments in a publicly accessible database. The legislation, labeled the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, was included in the 2010 healthcare reform law." Source: ModernHealthcare.com |
Conflicts of Interest |
| 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 |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Nov 1, 2011 |
''Amish-raised chicken on CPS lunch menu'' "Drumsticks from chickens raised on Amish farms without the use of antibiotics will be served at the 473 schools catered by Chartwells-Thompson. The company plans to buy about 1.2 million pounds of unprocessed Amish chicken this year for CPS, the largest district in the nation to make such a commitment." Source: Chicago Tribune |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| 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 29, 2009 |
Anger at Bank Overdraft Fees Gets Hotter, Bigger and Louder "Controversial bank account fees, which have fattened banks' bottom lines at the expense of vulnerable consumers, are rapidly becoming a black eye for the industry." Source: USA Today |
