Media Coverage
Media Coverage
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| 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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| 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 |
| 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 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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| 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 |
| Jan 30, 2008 |
''Studies: 'Money Better Spent Helping Family Than on Foster Care'' Shifting more money to help families -- whose children otherwise would be taken away by social agencies -- would help save on the billions of dollars child abuse costs the country each year, a study released Tuesday shows Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal |
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| Nov 1, 2006 |
A flu pandemic will affect all sectors of society. Will they be ready to deal with it? The Pandemic Preparedness Initiative helps them plan. It saves time and resources—and quite possibly its work will save lives. Source: Trust Magazine |
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| Sep 26, 2006 |
Carol W. Greider, a 1990 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, is among a trio of leading scientists who have won the 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, one of the most prestigious awards in American science and often referred to as “the American Nobel.” Source: Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences |
Biomedical Research |
| Jan 16, 2006 |
''Much Ado Over 'Lethal Genes''' The pink bollworm is only a half-inch long, but ever since it started wriggling its way through cotton fields in 1917, it has grown into one of agriculture's most detested pests. The slimy, pink-striped blob causes more than $32 million in losses every year. So far nothing has been able to eradicate it — not insecticides, not sterilization techniques, not even biotech-enhanced cotton engineered to resist it. The lowly fruit fly may provide a magic bullet. Scientists at the University of California in Riverside and the U.S. Agriculture Dept. have figured out how to breed bollworms that can't procreate. They do it by inserting into the pests a single piece of the fly's DNA — known as a "lethal gene" — that can be programmed to interfere with the development of the larvae, killing the next generation. Source: BusinessWeek |
Food Safety |
| Nov 16, 2005 |
''Shoppers Uneasy About Cloning'' Two-thirds of American consumers are "uncomfortable" with animal cloning and 43 percent believe food from clones would be unsafe to eat, according to a new poll that comes as the government considers allowing products from clones into the food supply. Source: Washington Post |
Food Safety |
