Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
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| Oct 28, 2009 |
''Cards From Largest Banks Would Break Law, Pew Says'' "None of the credit cards offered online by the 12 largest U.S. banks would meet requirements of new federal curbs on the industry’s rates and fees, a report from The Pew Charitable Trusts said."
Source: Bloomberg |
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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. 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 |
''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 |
| Oct 10, 2011 |
Consider this: school meals can be healthy, affordable and appealing to kids. Hard to believe? Districts across the United States are proving it can be done... Schools face many challenges in their mission to serve healthy food to students, including budget constraints, equipment and training limitations, and notoriously picky consumers. However, considering that nearly one in three American children and adolescents is overweight or obese and at increased risk for long-term health problems, it is vital that schools overcome those challenges. Because our nation’s schools provide meals to more than 31 million children each day, they can play a crucial role in supporting children’s health. Source: Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project |
School Food |
| May 23, 2011 |
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) represents the third-largest school district in the country, serving 400,000 students in more than 600 schools. In an effort to improve the quality of foods served in its schools, CPS debuted new breakfast and lunch menus in the 2010-2011 school year that exceed the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) HealthierUS School Challenge Gold standards, distinguishing them as being among the healthiest in the country. Source: Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project |
School Food |
| Nov 7, 2008 |
"Twenty or thirty years ago, traditional financial institutions fled neighborhoods like Watts, and guys like Tom Nix, co-founder of the biggest chain of check cashers and payday lenders in Southern California, rushed into the vacuum." Source: The New York Times Magazine |
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| Jul 19, 2012 |
''Chefs Learn Advocacy Lessons'' Sixteen chefs gathered earlier this month at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tenn. for the James Beard Foundation's Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change, a two-day program, jointly sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, that focused on coaching chefs on how to become stronger advocates for the causes which matter to them, and exposing them to the resources at their disposal. Source: Seattle Weekly |
Food Safety |
| Feb 21, 2013 |
''Children in U.S. Are Eating Fewer Calories, Study Finds'' "American children consumed fewer calories in 2010 than they did a decade before, a new federal analysis shows. Health experts said the findings offered an encouraging sign that the epidemic of obesity might be easing, but cautioned that the magnitude of the decline was too small to move the needle much." Source: The New York Times |
School Food |
| Jun 24, 2011 |
''China Illustrates Challenges for ‘Global’ FDA'' "Faced with a chronic shortage of staff around the world and a lack of enforcement authority in foreign countries, the FDA has come up with a plan to transform itself into a “truly global agency,” according to a report (pdf) on product safety and quality it released on Monday." Source: The Wall Street Journal |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Jul 22, 2010 |
''China Never Investigated Tainted Heparin, Says Probe'' "The Chinese government didn't pursue an investigation into contaminated heparin sent to the U.S. in 2007 and 2008, despite repeated requests from the U.S. for help, according to a congressional probe." Source: The Wall Street Journal |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Jan 4, 2012 |
''Citing Drug Resistance, U.S. Restricts More Antibiotics for Livestock'' Federal drug regulators announced on Wednesday that farmers and ranchers must restrict their use of a critical class of antibiotics in cattle, pigs, chickens, and turkeys because such practices may have contributed to the growing threat in people of bacterial infections that are resistant to treatment. Source: The New York Times |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 28, 2013 |
''Citizens Push For FDA To Prevent Food Poisoning Outbreaks'' "Six years ago, Bend resident Chrissy Christoferson's ten-month-old son suffered a ten-day struggle with what first appeared to be a touch of the flu." Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting |
Food Safety |
| Aug 17, 2009 |
''City’s Poor Still Distrust Banks'' "In 1986, when the Lower East Side had just one bank in a 100-square-block area, the high numbers of residents without bank accounts alarmed the city but did not surprise anyone. In the years since, the number of bank branches has skyrocketed, with the big names compelled to open in underserved areas." Source: The New York Times |
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| Nov 8, 2011 |
''COMMENTARY: Change is on the menu at schools across the country'' "On average, two of every three school children eat a National School Lunch Program lunch and consume about one-third of their total calories from that meal each weekday." Source: Hutchison Leader |
School Food |
| May 10, 2013 |
''Community Pharmacies Will Now Back Supply Chain Legislation'' "As differing bills for securing the pharmaceutical supply chain wind their way through the US House and Senate, a key hurdle to passing legislation may have just been cleared. Earlier this week, the National Community Pharmacists Association – which is a member of an influential industry coalition that has been floating its own proposals – is now willing to back either bill." Source: Pharmalot.com |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
