Media Coverage
Media Coverage
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| Jul 9, 2013 |
Snack Food Calories Restricted Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project, speaks with Education Week about new rules to restrict calories in snack foods and beverages sold in schools. Source: Education Week |
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| Nov 1, 2012 |
Snacks Sold in School Include Many Fried, Sweet, Salty Options "In the war on unhealthy snacks sold in schools, the opposition just launched another missile. In a new report, researchers at the Kids' Safe & Healthful Foods Project find that the majority of American children live in states where less-than-healthy snacks are readily available. And more nutritious options, such as fruits and vegetables, are harder to come by for those same kids." Source: Education Week |
School Food |
| Nov 13, 2012 |
''Southeast paying health price for high antibiotic use'' "And a new survey out today from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows 79% of adults know they can harm their own health by taking unneeded antibiotics." Source: USA Today |
Antibiotic Innovation |
| Aug 18, 2009 |
''Starting Thursday, Credit Card Users Get More Rights'' "The first phase of the landmark credit card legislation signed by President Obama in May will take effect this week, forcing card issuers to give consumers more time to pay their bills and to consider interest rate increases." Source: The Washington Post |
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| May 10, 2013 |
''State Pharmacy Boards Back More FDA Oversight'' "State pharmacy officials on Thursday threw their support behind a proposal giving the Food and Drug Administration authority over large compounding pharmacies, in an effort to head off more outbreaks tied to contaminated medications." Source: The Huffington Post |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Apr 20, 2013 |
''State Schools Set to Implement Updated USDA Guidelines'' "The USDA is updating the existing nutritional food standards set in 1979, which will require all snack foods sold in public schools to meet new health standards." Source: New Britain Herald |
School Food |
| Jul 18, 2008 |
''States Battle Mortgage Foreclosure Threat'' "Frustrated by the slow pace of federal relief, states around the country are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into their own programs to stem the rising tide of home foreclosures." Source: USA Today |
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| Jul 17, 2008 |
''Story corps for scientists'' "Nobel prize-winning geneticist Joshua Lederberg, liposome pioneer and essayist Gerald Weissmann, Lasker Prize-winning microbiologist Carol Greider—these are only a smattering of the scientists whose thoughts, reflections, and tribulations have been recorded in oral histories as part of the Pew Oral History Project, a recently-forged collaboration between the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Chemical Heritage Foundation." Source: The Scientist Magazine |
Biomedical Research |
| Jan 30, 2008 |
''Studies: 'Money Better Spent Helping Family Than on Foster Care'' Shifting more money to help families -- whose children otherwise would be taken away by social agencies -- would help save on the billions of dollars child abuse costs the country each year, a study released Tuesday shows Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal |
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| Nov 1, 2012 |
''Study finds healthy snacks still limited in some U.S. schools'' ''Students in states such as Connecticut and West Virginia have limited access to junk food like candy and chocolate on school grounds while those in Louisiana and Idaho can buy it in abundance, according to an analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.'' Source: Reuters |
School Food |
| May 11, 2011 |
''Study Finds Positive Results from Credit Card Law'' "Banks and some pundits had predicted that credit card users would face skyrocketing interest rates, a spike in annual fees and a plethora of other negatives after stringent new rules on cards kicked in last year." Source: The Associated Press |
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| May 17, 2011 |
''Study: 2 Years After Credit Card Reforms, Rates, Fees More Stable'' "Credit card interest rates have held steady, penalties are less costly for consumers and annual fees and other charges have changed little over the past year, according to a study released Tuesday by the Pew Safe Credit Cards Project." Source: FoxBusiness.com |
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| May 18, 2011 |
''Study: 'Business' credit cards put consumers at risk'' "From January 2006 to December 2010, American households received more than 2.6 billion offers for so-called "business" credit cards, according to a new report from the Pew Safe Credit Cards Project." Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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| May 17, 2012 |
''Study: FDA reviews new drugs faster than Europe, Canada'' "Researchers say the U.S. approved more new medicines in less time than Europe and Canada in the last decade, challenging long-standing criticisms that the Food and Drug Administration lags behind its peers in clearing important new drugs." Source: The Associated Press |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| 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 |
