Media Coverage
Media Coverage
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| Jun 15, 2010 |
''FDA to Propose Tougher Rules for Outsourcing Drug Manufacturing'' "The Food and Drug Administration said Monday it will propose stronger regulations for pharmaceutical companies that outsource manufacturing, putting more responsibility on the companies to ensure the purity and safety of products made by contractors." Source: |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Jun 9, 2010 |
''Payments to Physicians, Medical Schools to Be Illuminated Under New Reform Law'' "Pharmaceutical manufacturers and makers of medical devices and supplies will be required to report virtually all payments to physicians or teaching hospitals as part of sunshine provisions included in the health reform law." Source: The Journal of the American Medical Association |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Jun 9, 2010 |
''Inside Washington: After years of outbreaks, FDA steps up oversight of produce safety'' A field worker has unwashed hands. An animal squeezes through a small tear in a fence. Manure from a nearby hog farm trickles into an irrigation system. Small mistakes like these are often difficult to identify as the sources of food-borne illnesses, a situation that has frustrated health authorities for years. The Food and Drug Administration and other agencies gather information about a contamination outbreak after people have already been sickened, and their investigations into what went wrong come well after the crucial evidence is gone. Source: Science News |
Food Safety |
| Jun 9, 2010 |
''Food Safety Update — Report Underscores Need for Enhanced Legislation to Protect Americans'' Governing bodies aim to improve more than just the safety of produce as they take steps toward instituting stricter regulations. From bags of spinach to products containing peanuts and hydrolyzed vegetable protein, numerous food recalls have made news in the last four years. At times, it seems as though a biblical plague has been set upon our daily bread. And with food recalls continuing to grab headlines, the finding of a report issued on March 3 by the Produce Safety Project at Georgetown University should come as no surprise: The cost of food-borne illness is higher than previously estimated. Source: Today's Dietician |
Food Safety |
| Jun 8, 2010 |
''FDA Recommends New Limits on Livestock Drugs'' To prevent development of drug-resistant bacteria that could infect people, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended on Monday that livestock farmers use the drugs solely to cure or prevent disease in animals, phasing out their use to promote growth. Source: Reuters |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 5, 2010 |
''High APR? Don't worry, you can still negotiate'' "In the never-ending battle between credit card companies and their customers over interest rates, consumers still hold at least some of the cards." Source: CNN Money |
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| May 28, 2010 |
''Maker of children's drugs accused of hiding Motrin recall from public'' "The company at the center of a massive recall of children's Tylenol and other popular over-the-counter products tried to perform a "phantom recall" of defective Motrin by sending contractors around the country to buy up the medicine from stores without alerting regulators or the public, according to the chairman of a Congressional committee investigating the company." Source: The Washington Post |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Apr 1, 2010 |
''Pfizer Paid Doctors, Hospitals $35 Million'' "Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday it paid about 4,500 doctors and hospitals $35 million during the second half of last year to study how the company's medicines work and to promote the treatments, in its first public disclosure of payments to the professionals and institutions that test and prescribe its products." Source: The Wall Street Journal |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Mar 31, 2010 |
''Pfizer Gives Details on Payments to Doctors'' "Pfizer, the world’s largest drug maker, said Wednesday that it paid about $20 million to 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals for consulting and speaking on its behalf in the last six months of 2009, its first public accounting of payments to the people who decide which drugs to recommend." Source: The New York Times |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Mar 23, 2010 |
''Top psychiatrist calls for ethics cleanup around 'Big Pharma''' "American psychiatrists need to break away from a "culture of influence" created by their financial dealings with the drug industry, the head of the National Institute of Mental Health said in a leading medical journal." Source: Associated Press |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Mar 22, 2010 |
Americans should not have to worry about hidden dangers in the products they use every day—in the medicines they take, the food they eat or the financial and consumer items they rely on. The Pew Health Group implements Pew founder Joseph N. Pew Jr.’s vision of telling the truth and trusting the people by shining a light on potential and actual hazards in these products while advocating for policies and practices that reduce unacceptable risks to the health and well-being of the American public. Source: Pew Prospectus 2010 |
Health Topics |
| Mar 19, 2010 |
Risk and Reward: An Interview with the Pew Health Group's Shelley Hearne In September, at an event in Iowa focused on food safety oversight, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin hailed Pew as “a true national treasure” and “a major source of light—and enlightenment.” That sentiment reached the core of the Pew Health Group’s commitment to improving public policy and informing the public by conducting rigorous analysis and developing fact-based solutions. Trust asked managing director Shelley Hearne to describe the strategy behind her multifaceted program, which ranges from enhancing food safety oversight and eliminating medical conflicts of interest to reform of credit-card industry practices. Source: Trust Magazine |
Food Safety |
| 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 |
| Mar 8, 2010 |
''Fed proposes rule to limit credit card fees'' "In the latest move to overhaul consumer banking practices, the Federal Reserve unveiled a preliminary rule last week to address pesky credit card fees such as late and over-limit charges. The rule — which will be finalized after the public is given a chance to comment — is as notable for what it doesn't do as for what it does." Source: USA Today |
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| Jan 26, 2010 |
''FDA Weighs Limits for Online Ads'' This week, JAMA highlights the risks the Pew Prescription Project and other consumer safety advocates raised at a recent FDA hearing on the use and conduct of pharmaceutical companies online. Source: |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Jan 14, 2010 |
''Consumers score a win on credit card rules'' "Consumers scored a few unexpected victories in a set of Federal Reserve rules issued earlier this week. The Fed issued 1,155 pages of rules Tuesday telling banks how to comply with new laws regulating credit cards that go into effect on Feb. 22. In a handful of cases, in which the law was unclear, federal regulators used their discretion to go a step further to protect consumers." Source: CNN Money |
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| Jan 9, 2010 |
''Protection of Food Supply Faces Problems'' ''Erik Olson, director of food and consumer product safety programs for the Pew Health Group, appeared on the "CBS Evening News" in the series 'Where America Stands.'" Source: CBS Evening News |
Food Safety |
| Dec 28, 2009 |
''Pressure Rises to Stop Antibiotics in Agriculture'' ''The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.'' Source: Business Week |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 2, 2009 |
''Credit card rates: Nowhere to go but up'' "For millions of credit card customers, here's the good news: As of Feb. 22, a new law will bar banks from a host of practices that consumer advocates have long blasted as unfair." Source: CNN Money |
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| Nov 23, 2009 |
''Foodborne Illness and Its Impact on the U.S.'' ''Erik Olson, director of food and consumer product safety programs for the Pew Health Group, appeared on C-SPAN’s 'Washington Journal' to discuss the Food Safety Modernization Act and its potential impact.'' Source: C-SPAN |
Food Safety |
| Nov 15, 2009 |
''Banks Revising Their Old Tricks'' "In some ways, credit card banks are hustling to act before new consumer rights take effect next year. In other ways, they're in no rush at all." Source: News Journal (DE) |
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| Nov 10, 2009 |
''3 Years After E. Coli Outbreak, Is Spinach Safer?'' ''Three years after an E. coli outbreak, thought to be linked to spinach, took three lives and left 205 people sick, ABC's "Good Morning America" discovered that while the industry instituted new safety standards to prevent bacterial contamination, there are no requirements to test salad products before they get to market.'' Source: ABC's Good Morning America |
Food Hazards |
| Nov 8, 2009 |
''Credit card reforms mean mailings to consumers may include big change'' "A study by The Pew Charitable Trusts released last month found that advertised rates on about 400 credit cards this summer had jumped as much as 23 percent. In addition, the study reported that many issuers were shifting customers from fixed to variable rates, which would ease some of the notification requirements." Source: The Washington Post |
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| Nov 5, 2009 |
''Programs aim to aid 'unbanked''' "Dozens of cities are launching programs to sign up low income people as customers at commercial banks so they can avoid the high fees typical of check cashing stores and payday lenders." Source: USA Today |
