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Apr 2, 2013

2012 Pew Scholar Earns ARI Young Investigator Grant

Salil Lachke, a 2012 Pew scholar and assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Delaware, has been selected by the Alcon Research Institute as a 2013 Young Investigator. As one of just eight researchers worldwide to receive the $50,000 grant, Dr. Lachke will continue his work on an online tool he created to discover genes related to glaucoma and other eye diseases.

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Source: UDaily

Biomedical Research
Apr 2, 2013

''School Lunches: The New Battlefront in the War Against Obesity''

''With one in three American children considered overweight or obese — and the trend dangerously upward — the federal government has launched a new campaign this school year to strengthen nutritional requirements for school lunches."

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Source: The Miami Herald

School Food
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.

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Source: Governing

Health Impact Assessment
Apr 2, 2013

2011 Pew Scholar awarded $1.13 million from NIH

Jeff Gore, a 2011 Pew Scholar and assistant professor of physics at MIT, has been awarded a four-year, $1,131,603 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences – one of the 27 National Institutes of Health –  to pursue research into cooperation and cheating in the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

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Source: MIT News

Biomedical Research
Mar 28, 2013

2009 Pew Scholar Shows Cells Can Naturally “Reprogram” Themselves

Ben Stanger, a 2009 Pew scholar and assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, has demonstrated that cells can change their identities under normal conditions in the body. In a study published in Genes and Development, Dr. Stanger pinpointed the gene that allows the main type of liver cells in mammals to convert into the cells lining bile ducts.

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Source: Health Canal

Biomedical Research
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."

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Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting

Food Safety
Mar 28, 2013

''FDA Gathers Guidance On New Food Safety Law''

"Portlander Joe Day tearfully recalled the year his family spent Thanksgiving in a hospital cafeteria, as his sister, suffering from e coli, fought for her life several floors above."

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Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting

Food Safety
Mar 27, 2013

''FDA meeting on food safety in Portland draws consumers, farmers, regulators''

''Several hundred farmers, regulators and consumers from Alaska to North Dakota to California gathered in Portland on Wednesday to listen to federal plans to overhaul the food safety system."

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Source: The Oregonian

Food Safety
Mar 26, 2013

''Need to Know: Medical Devices''

The PBS program "Need to Know" devoted a portion of their March 22 program to discuss medical devices. Joining host Jeff Greenfield on the program was Pew's Dr. Josh Rising, project director of the medical devices initiative at The Pew Charitable Trusts.

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Drugs and Devices at the FDA
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.

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Source: GSA Business

Health Impact Assessment