Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2011 |
''Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project Aims to Revolutionize School Cafeteria'' ''America’s children are caught in a growing problem — literally. One out of every three kids and teens now weigh in as overweight or obese. In fact, the obesity rates among children aged six to 11 have more than quadrupled over the past four decades. Childhood obesity has truly become a public health crisis of epidemic proportions.'' Source: change.org |
School Food |
| Apr 5, 2011 |
Access to safe and healthy foods is essential to protecting and promoting health. Consider that, over the past four decades, childhood obesity rates in the United States have risen rapidly, more than quadrupling among children ages 6 to 11 and more than tripling among teens. Source: Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project |
School Food |
| 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 |
| Jan 20, 2013 |
2009 Pew Biomedical Scholar Charles Mullighan Identifies Possible Treatment of Childhood Leukemia 2009 Pew Biomedical Scholar Charles Mullighan discovers a possible treatment to childhood Leukemia while leading a study at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Source: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
Research Field |
| Jan 17, 2012 |
Biomedical Scholars Profile: Benjamin R. tenOever On his way out of high school, Benjamin tenOever had his sights set on becoming a doctor and, in his words, “making the world a better place.” But, when he started learning about the complex structure of viruses in his basic biology courses at McGill University in Montreal, he began “to find viruses much more intriguing.” Source: |
Research Field |
| Jan 30, 2013 |
2009 Pew Scholar Discovers Potential Key to Pain Prevention 2009 Pew Scholar Diana Bautista, an assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at University of California, Berkeley, was featured in the Daily Mail for her findings on the star-nosed mole. Her study of the animal’s nose, which is extremely sensitive, pinpointed genes linked to touch, identifying new treatment targets for chronic pain. Source: Daily Mail |
Neuroscience |
| Oct 2, 2012 |
''FDA Stakeholders Worry About Sequestration'' "Representatives from the FDA and industry expressed serious concerns about the potential impact of sequestration Monday, saying it's not a good time to shortchange the agency when it's under so much pressure to help bring innovative new drugs to market." Source: POLITICO |
Medical Safety |
| Sep 21, 2012 |
''Report: State Prescription Monitoring Programs Falling Short'' "Forty-nine states, including Maine, now operate a prescription monitoring program - or are putting one in place - to track the powerful pain medication dispensed by pharmacies. These databases have already helped in the fight to curtail diversion and abuse of prescribed opioids. But the way they operate - and how the data they collect gets used - varies widely from state to state." Source: The Maine Public Broadcasting Network |
Medical Safety |
| Jun 28, 2012 |
''FDA Probing Safety of Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants'' "While thousands of Americans have benefited from hip replacements over the years, problems with metal-on-metal implants can lead to troubles requiring surgery to replace defective devices, experts say. Writing earlier this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, Pew's Joshua Rising and colleagues said that "there is now compelling evidence that these implants fail at a higher rate than hip prostheses made of other materials." Source: U.S. News and World Report |
Medical Safety |
| Jun 26, 2012 |
''FDA user fee bill gives agency new powers to inspect overseas prescription drug plants'' "A Food and Drug Administration bill designed to increase inspections of foreign drug factories, while also speeding approvals of new drugs at home, is headed to the president’s desk after an overwhelming approval in the U.S. Senate." Source: Associated Press |
Medical Safety |
| Jun 5, 2012 |
Pew's Allan Coukell Discusses FDA Reform Act of 2012 Allan Coukell, deputy director of the Medical Safety Project of the Pew Health Group, talked about drug safety on C-SPAN. Source: C-SPAN |
Medical Safety |
| Jan 4, 2012 |
''FDA limits some antibiotics in livestock'' "The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday ordered farmers to limit the use of a type of antibiotics they give livestock because it could make people more resistant to a key antibiotic that can save lives, encouraging news for public health advocates who say such animal antibiotics are overused." Source: Associated Press |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Oct 31, 2011 |
''Meat industry unhappy over limiting the use of antibiotics'' "For decades, factory farms have used antibiotics even in healthy animals to promote faster growth and prevent diseases that could sicken livestock held in confined quarters. But a firestorm has erupted over a federal proposal recommending antibiotics only when animals are actually sick." Source: The Washington Post |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 25, 2011 |
''New study adds to concerns about animal-to-human resistance to antibiotics'' "On April 15, scientists reported that the meat bought at supermarkets is often contaminated with Staphylococcus aureas bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics used to fight human disease." Source: Los Angeles Times |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 26, 2011 |
''Potential for 'Super Bugs' in Meat, Dairy Products Alarms Regulators'' "At a one-day conference in Washington, D.C., co-sponsored by the nonprofit consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest and The Pew Charitable Trusts, food safety experts and officials agreed that decades-long misuse of antibiotics on the nation's farms has been largely responsible for the steady increase in e.coli, salmonella and other food-related outbreaks in recent years." Source: DailyFinance |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 12, 2011 |
"Crisis" is not too strong a word for describing what has happened to antibiotics. As our use of the drugs rises every year in the United States, bacterial resistance has risen right alongside it: there isn't a single known antibiotic to which bacteria have not become resistant ..."
Source: The Huffington Post |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 22, 2010 |
Americans should not have to worry about hidden dangers in the products they use every day—in the medicines they take, the food they eat or the financial and consumer items they rely on. The Pew Health Group implements Pew founder Joseph N. Pew Jr.’s vision of telling the truth and trusting the people by shining a light on potential and actual hazards in these products while advocating for policies and practices that reduce unacceptable risks to the health and well-being of the American public. Source: Pew Prospectus 2010 |
Health Topics |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Apr 2, 2013 |
''Health Impact Assessments Take on Broader Role in Cities and States'' Aaron Wernham, director of the Health Impact Project discusses the benefits of health impact assessments in this edition of Governing. Source: Governing |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Mar 26, 2013 |
Greenville Conducts Health Impact Assessment The city of Greenville, South Carolina recently completed a yearlong health impact assessment with support from Pew's Health Impact Project. Source: GSA Business |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Mar 5, 2013 |
''Construction That Focuses on Health of Residents'' The New York Times interviews Aaron Wernham, project director for the Health Impact Project, about the growing field of health impact assessments. Source: The New York Times |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Jul 24, 2012 |
''Taking Health Into Account'' Aaron Wernham, director of the Health Impact Project, explains how by systematically assessing the health risks of development decisions upfront, health impact assessments can prevent costly and harmful mistakes. Source: Shelterforce |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Nov 26, 2011 |
WASHINGTON - The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, today announced that The California Endowment will support up to two health impact assessment (HIA) demonstrations in California. Source: Health Impact Project |
Health Impact Assessment |
