Media Coverage
Media Coverage
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| Aug 1, 2008 |
''Not Toying Around: Congress OKs Bill to Ban Chemicals in Some Products'' "Congress has passed sweeping legislation to improve the safety of toys and other consumer products." Source: USA Today |
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| Aug 1, 2008 |
''Congress Takes on Chemicals'' Congress is venturing into new regulatory territory with a recent ban on several varieties of the plasticizing chemicals known as pthalates. Usually government agencies regulate products on the market, but environmental health advocates say this latest ban shows Congress is picking up the slack on chemical regulation. Host Bruce Gellerman talks with Andy Igrejas of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Environmental Health Campaign. Source: living on earth |
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| Jul 18, 2008 |
''States Battle Mortgage Foreclosure Threat'' "Frustrated by the slow pace of federal relief, states around the country are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into their own programs to stem the rising tide of home foreclosures." Source: USA Today |
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| Jul 17, 2008 |
''Story corps for scientists'' "Nobel prize-winning geneticist Joshua Lederberg, liposome pioneer and essayist Gerald Weissmann, Lasker Prize-winning microbiologist Carol Greider—these are only a smattering of the scientists whose thoughts, reflections, and tribulations have been recorded in oral histories as part of the Pew Oral History Project, a recently-forged collaboration between the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Chemical Heritage Foundation." Source: The Scientist Magazine |
Biomedical Research |
| Jul 11, 2008 |
''Foreclosure-Related Filings Up in Nassau, Suffolk'' Foreclosure-related filings for June jumped 72 percent in Suffolk and 2 percent in Nassau from the previous month, according to RealtyTrac, an online foreclosure marketplace. Source: Newsday |
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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 |
Conflicts of Interest |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
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