Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2012 |
''Dear F.D.A.: Stop Drugging Animals'' "The comment period for the F.D.A.’s ruling on antibiotic use in animals closed yesterday, and at least 200,000 people have told the agency that the routine use of drugs in animal rearing must be restricted. The agency, which has stalled on this for 30 years, has been ordered by two judges to act now." Source: The New York Times |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 9, 2012 |
''School lunches healthier, Administrators work to balance nutrition with appeal to students'' "A study released late last month delivers the message: Make competitive foods offered in schools healthier, too. The study was a collaboration between the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and came from two projects, the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project – the director, Jessica Donze Black, is a University of Delaware graduate – and the Health Impact Project." Source: The News Journal |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jun 29, 2012 |
''New school nutrition standards on horizon'' "A recent study has reaffirmed what local school officials already knew: Student health and school budgets can both benefit from higher nutrition standards." Source: Seacost Online |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jun 28, 2012 |
''Health assessment calls for USDA nutrition standards in schools'' "The Health Impact Project, released Tuesday by the Kids’ Safe & Healthful Foods Project, was conducted to examine how the agency’s new policies will affect student nutrition and how new dietary standards would affect school revenues." Source: APHA Public Health News |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| 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 27, 2012 |
''Better School Nutrition Good for Students and Budgets'' "The Health Impact Project released an assessment making the case that “strong nutrition standards could have a significant positive impact on the health of students” and that such standards implemented by the Agriculture Department 'can be made with little to no negative financial impact and in fact may even result in improved financial outcomes for schools and districts.'" Source: Taegan Goddard's Wonk Wire |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jun 26, 2012 |
''Report: School Nutrition Standards Could Improve Health and Finances'' "Stronger school nutrition standards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) could improve student health and provide a financial boon for school districts, according to a new health impact assessment (HIA) released Tuesday by the Health Impact Project and the Kids' Safe and Healthful Food Project." Source: Governing |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jun 26, 2012 |
''Study: Higher nutrition standard for snacks a win-win for schools'' "Replacing a candy bar with an apple could have a big effect, according to the 172-page health assessment released by the Kids’ Safe & Healthful Foods Project and the Health Impact Project" Source: The Packer |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| 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 26, 2012 |
''Nutrition, finances win with healthful school snacks, report says'' "An assessment of what those new rules might do for kids’ health and the schools’ bottom line was released Tuesday by two projects from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation." Source: The Los Angeles Times |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jun 26, 2012 |
''Report: Healthy Vending, A La Carte Foods Won't Hurt School Revenue'' "The Kids' Safe & Healthful Foods Project and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation teamed up to analyze the effects of changing the makeup of so-called 'competitive foods' sold at school." Source: Education Week |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jun 26, 2012 |
''National Nutrition Standards Will Benefit Student Health, School Budgets: Study'' "The report, by the Kids’ Safe & Healthful Foods Project and the Health Impact Project, found that improved nutritional standards for snack foods and beverages would reduce consumption of these products during the school day." Source: The Huffington Post |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jun 22, 2012 |
''FDA's Food Safety Modernization Act needs funding to protect food supply'' "Over the past two months, a food-borne illness outbreak linked to salmonella in raw tuna has sickened more than 300 people nationwide — and caused many consumers to second-guess what’s actually in their spicy tuna rolls." Source: The Kalamazoo Gazette |
Food Hazards |
| Jun 19, 2012 |
''Congress poised to pass safety-focused FDA bill'' "A bill designed to beef up the safety of the nation's prescription drug supply is poised to pass Congress, but without a tracking system that public health advocates say is critical to weeding out counterfeit pharmaceuticals." Source: The Associated Press |
Drug Safety |
| Jun 18, 2012 |
The Pew Charitable Trusts have named Northwestern University chemical biologist Alexander V. Statsuk a 2012 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. Source: Evanston Now (Northwestern News) |
Biomedical Research |
| Jun 15, 2012 |
''Alexander Statsuk Honored by Pew Charitable Trusts'' "The Pew Charitable Trusts have named Northwestern University chemical biologist Alexander V. Statsuk a 2012 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences." Source: Northwestern University web site News Center |
Biomedical Research |
| Jun 15, 2012 |
"Renata M. Pereira, Ph.D., a researcher at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology exploring genetic changes in leukemia, has been selected as a Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences." Source: La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Imunology web site |
Biomedical Research |
| Jun 15, 2012 |
''Physicist Alexander Sher named Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences'' "The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Alexander Sher, assistant professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz, a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences." Source: University News |
Biomedical Research |
| Jun 15, 2012 |
''Notable People: Suzana Kahn, Ph.D.'' "Susana Kahn, a postdoctoral scholar, was one of 10 researchers named 2012 Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences by The Pew Charitable Trusts." Source: Inside Stanford Medicine |
Biomedical Research |
| 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 |
| Jun 15, 2012 |
''OMRF researcher selected as Pew Scholar'' "Today the Pew Charitable Trusts named Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist Lorin Olson, Ph.D., one of 22 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences for 2012." Source: Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation |
Biomedical Research |
| 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 |
| Jun 14, 2012 |
''Infection cases stir debate on antiobiotic use'' "Food safety activists and some medical professionals argue that overuse of antibiotics in people and food animals is causing drug resistance, and they want regulations to curb their use. Anytime antibiotics are used, whether in humans or animals, resistance can build, said Dr. Gail Hansen, a veterinary public health officer with the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming in Washington, D.C." Source: Detroit News |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 14, 2012 |
"Since the 1950s, most American food animals have been routinely dosed with antibiotics, through their feed and water, in order to hasten their maturation and prevent disease from spreading in the close quarters of factory farms. According to the FDA, 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in this country are administered to livestock, most of them healthy." Source: The New Yorker |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 14, 2012 |
''Vanessa Ruta named Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences'' "Vanessa Ruta, head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, has been chosen as a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by The Pew Charitable Trusts." Source: Rockefeller University Newswire |
Biomedical Research |
