Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
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| Sep 6, 2012 |
''Don’t Forget Your (Kid’s!) Lunch'' "It’s back-to-school time! School supplies? Check! Medical forms completed? Check! Clothes for the first day? Check! School lunch?. . ." Source: MomsRising.org |
School Food |
| Jun 15, 2012 |
''Dr. Kevin K. Park Selected as 2012 Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences'' "Twenty-two of the nation’s most innovative young researchers, including Kevin K. Park, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurological surgery and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, were named Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences by The Pew Charitable Trusts on June 14." Source: UHealth News |
Biomedical Research |
| Dec 13, 2012 |
''Drink Ingredient Gets a Look'' Sarah Kavanagh and her little brother were looking forward to the bottles of Gatorade they had put in the refrigerator after playing outdoors one hot, humid afternoon last month in Hattiesburg, Miss. But before she took a sip, Sarah, a dedicated vegetarian, did what she often does and checked the label to make sure no animal products were in the drink. One ingredient, brominated vegetable oil, caught her eye. Source: The New York Times |
Food Additives |
| Sep 8, 2009 |
''Drug company paid MN doctors $754,127'' "Minnesota doctors were paid thousands of dollars in speaker fees and other payments last year by a pharmaceutical company now implicated in a congressional investigation for its aggressive promotion of a popular antidepression drug, according to documents filed with the state and analyzed by a nonprofit group." Source: Minnesota Star-Tribune |
Conflicts of Interest |
| May 14, 2013 |
''Drug Manufacturer Agrees to $500 Million Penalty'' ''A subsidiary of India's largest pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay a record $500 million in fines and penalties for selling adulterated drugs and lying to federal regulators in a case that is part of an ongoing crackdown on the quality of generic drugs flowing into the U.S." Source: The Associated Press |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Feb 3, 2011 |
''Drug money- Is your doc receiving payments from the pharmaceutical industry?'' "A dozen UC Davis Medical Center doctors and many more in the greater Sacramento area received some $1.1 million from pharmaceutical companies in 2009 and the first half of 2010. Physicians and employers say the relationship is a necessity to marry scientific expertise to corporate innovation. But watchdogs, and even the federal government, are taking a close look at the uncertain relationship between medicine and business." Source: Sacramento News & Review |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Conflicts of Interest |
| Nov 28, 2012 |
''Drug, Device Makers Anxiously Await U.S. Doctor-Payment Disclosure Rule'' ''Drug and medical-device makers are bracing for a new U.S. rule that will require them to report physician-payment information to the government--a rule some companies and doctors fear will be overly broad and could mislead the public.'' Source: Wall Street Journal |
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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 |
| Nov 6, 2010 |
''Drugs, Supplements come to U.S. from China largely unregulated'' "Federal regulators have inspected only a fraction of the hundreds of Chinese factories making prescription drugs for the U.S. market, a new report from the Government Accountability Office says." Source: The Kansas City Star |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Dec 8, 2011 |
''E. coli report cites lettuce in outbreak'' "Romaine lettuce from one harvest at a single farm was the likely culprit of the E. coli outbreak that sickened 60 people across 10 states this fall, according to a federal report released Wednesday." Source: St. Louis Today |
Food Hazards |
| Nov 18, 2008 |
''Eating Safely and Mercifully'' ''California voters’ overwhelming endorsement of Proposition 2 in California, a ballot initiative banning the use of battery cages in egg production, gestation crates in swine production and veal crates, shows just how far consumers will go to make sure the meat they are eating is both more humane and ultimately safer for the dinner table.'' Source: The Hill's Congress Blog |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 15, 2012 |
''ENG’s Xue Han Named Pew Scholar'' "A notoriously shrinking nationwide research funding market is making it increasingly difficult to secure grants for innovative research. But for the third time in two years, the efforts of a College of Engineering assistant professor of biomedical engineering to make better tools to study the brain have been rewarded." Source: BU Today |
Biomedical Research |
| Jan 31, 2011 |
''Environmental Groups Get In Some Target Practice'' "The otherwise-routine reauthorization of the Consumer Product Safety Commission this year demonstrated the environmental movement's growing clout over the chemical industry. The new law, advocates say, reverses long-standing practice because it requires the chemical industry to prove the safety of some products before they reach the public." Source: National Journal |
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| Sep 17, 2012 |
Expert Discusses Changes to School Lunch Programs Jessica Donze Black of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project recently appeared on C-SPAN to talk about recent changes to the operating costs of school lunch programs. Topics included the history of the program, the role of the Agriculture Department, qualifications for participants, and nutritional requirements. Source: C-SPAN |
School Food |
| May 18, 2011 |
''Extending Credit Card Protections to Small Business Users'' "Each month, Americans get more than 10 million business credit card pitches in their home mailboxes. The cards are aimed at small businesses and sole proprietors, but they generally lack the new protections that apply to consumer cards, a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts says." Source: The New York Times |
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| Jan 4, 2013 |
''F.D.A. Offers Sweeping Rules to Stop Food Contamination'' Sandra Eskin, director of the safe food campaign at the Pew Charitable Trusts, is interviewed by The New York Times about the new FDA rules to prevent food contamination. Source: The New York Times |
Food Safety |
| Mar 11, 2012 |
''Fake Avastin shows very little protects drug supply'' "As drug counterfeiters step up their sales of bogus medicines, global health regulators have few protections in place to prevent them from reaching patients, and new laws aimed at addressing the problem could be years away ... " Source: Reuters |
Drug Safety |
| Feb 16, 2012 |
''Fakes Infiltrate Injectable Drugs'' "News that a counterfeit version of the cancer drug Avastin was found in the U.S. highlights a rising threat: fakes of costly injectable therapies, rather than simple pills, such as Viagra." Source: The Wall Street Journal |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''Families, health advocates urge Obama to act on food safety'' "Families, public health advocates and consumer groups called on the White House on Tuesday to implement delayed provisions in a food safety law they say would help prevent some of the nearly 3,000 deaths caused by food-borne illnesses each year." Source: Reuters |
Food Hazards |
| Sep 4, 2012 |
''Farm Use of Antibiotics Defies Scrutiny'' "Eighty percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States goes to chicken, pigs, cows and other animals that people eat, yet producers of meat and poultry are not required to report how they use the drugs — which ones, on what types of animal, and in what quantities. This dearth of information makes it difficult to document the precise relationship between routine antibiotic use in animals and antibiotic-resistant infections in people, scientists say." Source: The New York Times |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 20, 2012 |
''FDA Alerts Doctors on Fakes'' "The Food and Drug Administration warned more than 50 doctors and medical practices in the U.S. that they may have bought a fake version of the cancer drug Avastin ... " Source: Wall Street Journal |
Drug Safety |
| Jan 17, 2012 |
''FDA and drug industry agree on user-fee proposal for generics'' "The Food and Drug Administration would collect hundreds of millions of dollars in new fees from pharmaceutical companies to help speed up the review of generic drugs, under an agreement with the industry released by the agency on Friday." Source: Associated Press |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Jan 7, 2013 |
''FDA Begins Implementing Sweeping Food-Safety Law'' "The Obama administration moved ahead Friday with the first major overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system in more than 70 years, proposing tough new standards for fruit and vegetable producers and food manufacturers." Source: The Washington Post |
Food Safety |
| Jul 13, 2011 |
''FDA calls for more congressional oversight on global drug economy'' "The Food and Drug Administration called on Congress Tuesday to make the laws that govern the global prescription drug economy stronger. In a report released Tuesday by the Pew Health Group, researchers looked at the globalization of pharmaceutical production and the domestic distribution of prescription drug, with an eye on how the FDA can more effectively regulate both." Source: The Daily Caller |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Jan 9, 2012 |
''FDA changing course on antibiotics in livestock'' "The debate over the drug use in food animals continues as federal regulators tackle the issues of drug-resistance and shorter supplies." Source: The Los Angeles Times |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
