Media Coverage
Media Coverage
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| Mar 8, 2010 |
''Fed proposes rule to limit credit card fees'' "In the latest move to overhaul consumer banking practices, the Federal Reserve unveiled a preliminary rule last week to address pesky credit card fees such as late and over-limit charges. The rule — which will be finalized after the public is given a chance to comment — is as notable for what it doesn't do as for what it does." Source: USA Today |
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| Mar 19, 2010 |
''Carol Greider and the Nobel Prize'' "Carol W. Greider, Ph.D., a 1990 Pew scholar in the biomedical sciences and now professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing the award with Jack W. Szostak of Massachusetts General Hospital and Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California at San Francisco." Source: Trust Magazine |
Biomedical Research |
| Mar 19, 2010 |
Carol Greider and the Nobel Prize "Carol W. Greider, Ph.D., a 1990 Pew scholar in the biomedical sciences and now professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing the award with Jack W. Szostak of Massachusetts General Hospital and Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California at San Francisco. The three scientists solved the biology question of how chromosomes, which contain DNA molecules, can be copied in a complete way during cell division and how they are protected against degradation. They showed, as the Nobel Assembly put it, that “the solution is to be found in the ends of the chromosomes—the telomeres—and in an enzyme that forms them—telomerase.” Source: Trust Magazine |
Biomedical Research |
| Mar 19, 2010 |
Risk and Reward: An Interview with the Pew Health Group's Shelley Hearne In September, at an event in Iowa focused on food safety oversight, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin hailed Pew as “a true national treasure” and “a major source of light—and enlightenment.” That sentiment reached the core of the Pew Health Group’s commitment to improving public policy and informing the public by conducting rigorous analysis and developing fact-based solutions. Trust asked managing director Shelley Hearne to describe the strategy behind her multifaceted program, which ranges from enhancing food safety oversight and eliminating medical conflicts of interest to reform of credit-card industry practices. Source: Trust Magazine |
Food Safety |
| 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 |
| Mar 23, 2010 |
''Top psychiatrist calls for ethics cleanup around 'Big Pharma''' "American psychiatrists need to break away from a "culture of influence" created by their financial dealings with the drug industry, the head of the National Institute of Mental Health said in a leading medical journal." Source: Associated Press |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Mar 31, 2010 |
''Pfizer Gives Details on Payments to Doctors'' "Pfizer, the world’s largest drug maker, said Wednesday that it paid about $20 million to 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals for consulting and speaking on its behalf in the last six months of 2009, its first public accounting of payments to the people who decide which drugs to recommend." Source: The New York Times |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Apr 1, 2010 |
''Pfizer Paid Doctors, Hospitals $35 Million'' "Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday it paid about 4,500 doctors and hospitals $35 million during the second half of last year to study how the company's medicines work and to promote the treatments, in its first public disclosure of payments to the professionals and institutions that test and prescribe its products." Source: The Wall Street Journal |
Conflicts of Interest |
| May 28, 2010 |
''Maker of children's drugs accused of hiding Motrin recall from public'' "The company at the center of a massive recall of children's Tylenol and other popular over-the-counter products tried to perform a "phantom recall" of defective Motrin by sending contractors around the country to buy up the medicine from stores without alerting regulators or the public, according to the chairman of a Congressional committee investigating the company." Source: The Washington Post |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Jun 5, 2010 |
''High APR? Don't worry, you can still negotiate'' "In the never-ending battle between credit card companies and their customers over interest rates, consumers still hold at least some of the cards." Source: CNN Money |
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| Jun 8, 2010 |
''FDA Recommends New Limits on Livestock Drugs'' To prevent development of drug-resistant bacteria that could infect people, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended on Monday that livestock farmers use the drugs solely to cure or prevent disease in animals, phasing out their use to promote growth. Source: Reuters |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 9, 2010 |
''Food Safety Update — Report Underscores Need for Enhanced Legislation to Protect Americans'' Governing bodies aim to improve more than just the safety of produce as they take steps toward instituting stricter regulations. From bags of spinach to products containing peanuts and hydrolyzed vegetable protein, numerous food recalls have made news in the last four years. At times, it seems as though a biblical plague has been set upon our daily bread. And with food recalls continuing to grab headlines, the finding of a report issued on March 3 by the Produce Safety Project at Georgetown University should come as no surprise: The cost of food-borne illness is higher than previously estimated. Source: Today's Dietician |
Food Safety |
| Jun 9, 2010 |
''Inside Washington: After years of outbreaks, FDA steps up oversight of produce safety'' A field worker has unwashed hands. An animal squeezes through a small tear in a fence. Manure from a nearby hog farm trickles into an irrigation system. Small mistakes like these are often difficult to identify as the sources of food-borne illnesses, a situation that has frustrated health authorities for years. The Food and Drug Administration and other agencies gather information about a contamination outbreak after people have already been sickened, and their investigations into what went wrong come well after the crucial evidence is gone. Source: Science News |
Food Safety |
| Jun 9, 2010 |
''Payments to Physicians, Medical Schools to Be Illuminated Under New Reform Law'' "Pharmaceutical manufacturers and makers of medical devices and supplies will be required to report virtually all payments to physicians or teaching hospitals as part of sunshine provisions included in the health reform law." Source: The Journal of the American Medical Association |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Jun 15, 2010 |
''FDA to Propose Tougher Rules for Outsourcing Drug Manufacturing'' "The Food and Drug Administration said Monday it will propose stronger regulations for pharmaceutical companies that outsource manufacturing, putting more responsibility on the companies to ensure the purity and safety of products made by contractors." Source: |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Jun 17, 2010 |
''Legislators Ask USDA to Up Antibiotics Monitoring'' ''Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to expand efforts to gather data on antibiotic use in agriculture and take steps to reduce usage.'' Source: |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 17, 2010 |
''CARD act misses mark on interest'' "The Federal Reserve this week adopted rules meant to protect credit card holders from predatory penalty fees and other charges, but not everyone feels the agency went far enough." Source: New Haven Register |
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| Jun 22, 2010 |
''As Some Consumer Banking Fees Fall, Expect Others to Rise'' "Thanks to a series of laws passed by Congress and rules imposed by the Federal Reserve, fees for using credit cards and bank accounts have begun to decline appreciably, which is a real boon to consumers. The key question is: Will banks find other ways to hit customers with new charges to make up for lost profits?" Source: Daily Finance |
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| Jul 8, 2010 |
''How Many More? It’s Time for the U.S. Senate to Act'' ''Advertisements calling on Senator Reid and Senator McConnell to pass a strong food safety modernization bill recently ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader.'' Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal |
Food Safety |
| Jul 16, 2010 |
''Guidelines Issued For Antibiotic Use in Animals'' CBS Evening News with Katie Couric investigates the use of antibiotics on industrial farms, featuring Pew Health Group’s managing director, Shelley Hearne. Source: CBS Evening News with Katie Couric |
Food Safety |
| Jul 20, 2010 |
''Report Measures Financial Habits of Low-Income Families'' "Half of low-income families in Greater Los Angeles turn to costly and unregulated alternative financial services (AFS) rather than banks to meet their monetary needs, according to a new survey released today by the Pew Health Group’s Safe Banking Opportunities Project" Source: Hispanic Lifestyle |
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| Jul 22, 2010 |
''Credit-Card Reform Succeeds in Ending Many Deceptive Practices, Pew Finds'' "Credit cards offered online by the 12 largest U.S. banks have eliminated some of the most troublesome practices for consumers, the Pew Charitable Trusts said. Increasing interest rates on existing balances for some infractions of the card agreements and applying payments to balances with the lowest interest rates first have ended, according to the report released today by the Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization. The study looked at almost 450 cards advertised by banks and credit unions and compared terms for cards offered in March 2010 and July 2009." Source: Bloomberg |
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| Jul 22, 2010 |
''Credit cards not always clear on penalty rates'' "A study by the Pew Safe Credit Cards Project found that card issuers are complying with a new law this year that prohibits numerous deceptive practices. Previously, all card issuers tracked by Pew used at least one practice that is now illegal." Source: Associated Press |
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| Jul 22, 2010 |
''As credit card holders play it safe, issuers increase non-penalty service fees'' "A new study by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that annual fees and service fees have increased over the past year while penalty charges -- which are subject to the new federal regulations -- remained largely unchanged." Source: The Washington Post |
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| Jul 22, 2010 |
''Pew: Law vanquished many credit-card ills, not all'' "There's good news for credit-card users, according to a report today from the Pew Charitable Trusts: As promised, many of the credit-card industry's best-known tricks and traps for consumers were vanquished by last year's credit-card law."
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer |
