Media Coverage
Media Coverage
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| 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 |
| Mar 14, 2012 |
''Study: Imported Food Increasingly Causing US Illness'' "Imported food is making Americans sick more frequently than ever, according to new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC." Source: Voice of America |
Food Hazards |
| 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 |
| Feb 16, 2012 |
''System to catch fake drugs has idled for years'' "The news this week that a fake version of the cancer medicine Avastin has made its way into the United States highlights a longtime concern: There are few safeguards to make sure fake drugs can be spotted before they make it to your doctor’s office." Source: Associated Press |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Apr 12, 2009 |
''Taking a Page, and a Pen, From Makers of Medicines'' "Free pens — bearing the names of drugs like Viagra and Januvia rather than the letters NYC — litter doctors’ offices all across New York, part of an often-criticized strategy by drug company sales representatives known as detailers, who traditionally go from waiting room to waiting room giving gifts to entice doctors to prescribe their products." Source: The New York Times |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Jul 24, 2012 |
''Taking Health Into Account'' Aaron Wernham, director of the Health Impact Project, explains how by systematically assessing the health risks of development decisions upfront, health impact assessments can prevent costly and harmful mistakes. Source: Shelterforce |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Sep 8, 2008 |
There's no shortage of retirement-savings services for the affluent. But for those who fall in the middle of the wage scale or lower, it's a different story. Source: The Wall Street Journal |
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| Jun 12, 2013 |
''Taste test: Parents to get sampling of RCSD cafeteria food'' "New items such as curried chicken with raisins and apples and broccoli alfredo are part of the City School District’s effort to upgrade its school meal offerings, focusing on foods that are fresh, local and healthy, rather than the old school method of quick and easy." Source: Democrat and Chronicle |
School Food |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''Teen who nearly died after eating contaminated cantaloupe speaks out'' A Brevard County, FL, teenager who helped bring about the Food Safety Modernization Act told WFTV she wanted to know why the federal law isn't being fully implemented. Source: WFTV-9 |
Food Hazards |
| Nov 17, 2011 |
Ten Public Health Institutes Chosen for In-Depth HIA Training The Health Impact Project and National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) have chosen the 10 public health institutes (PHIs) that will participate in a two-day, in-person, health impact assessment (HIA) training at the Pew Conference Center in Washington, DC, November 29-30, 2011. Source: Health Impact Project |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Jan 12, 2011 |
"Crisis" is not too strong a word for describing what has happened to antibiotics. As our use of the drugs rises every year in the United States, bacterial resistance has risen right alongside it: there isn't a single known antibiotic to which bacteria have not become resistant ..."
Source: The Huffington Post |
Health Topics, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 8, 2009 |
On PBS' Bill Moyers Journal, Safe Banking Opportunities project director Matt Fellowes spoke about financial products and services utilized by lower-income consumers, the market opportunity in serving these households, and how it can be improved to benefit both these consumers as well as the businesses serving them. Source: Bill Moyers Journal on PBS |
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| Jul 11, 2011 |
''The Doctor Is Out (In the Community)'' "Many of the most urgent health problems facing the nation—like diabetes, asthma, obesity and injuries—are shaped by conditions in the places where we live, work and play. The United States spends more money on health care per person than any other country—$2.5 trillion in 2009, yet our health statistics consistently lag behind other developed nations." Source: The Public Health Law Network |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Aug 18, 2011 |
Allan Coukell, director of Medical Programs at Pew Health Group, appears on the Kojo Nnamdi Show as they explore the globalization of the drug industry and what it means for the quality and safety of our prescription drugs. Source: The Kojo Nnamdi Show |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Apr 9, 2013 |
The Junk Food Loophole in USDA's Regulations Jessica Donze Black, director of the Pew's kids' safe and Healthful foods project speaks with the Los Angeles Times about a loophole in the USDA's new competitive foods rules that would allow junk food to be served in school cafeterias. Source: Los Angeles Times |
School Food |
| Feb 27, 2013 |
''The Loophole That Keeps Precarious Medical Devices in Use'' The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last month that it will classify metal-on-metal hip implants as high-risk devices. That comes after the artificial joints were found to have failed at high rates, causing disability and meaning additional surgery for thousands of people. But hundreds of other potentially high-risk medical devices remain in use without what many consider to be adequate testing Source: The Atlantic |
Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| Mar 31, 2009 |
''The Moment for Credit Card Reform'' "We all know what an uphill battle reforming abusive credit card practices has been. As a twenty-five year veteran of that fight, I know it as well as anyone. But this morning, the Senate took a big step up that mountain." Source: Huffington Post |
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| Aug 12, 2009 |
''The New Math of Financial Aid'' Despite the availability of federal money, many students rely on private loans from banks. According to TICAS's Project on Student Debt, the proportion of undergrads who took out such loans jumped from 5 percent in 2003–04 to 14 percent in 2007–08. Source: Newsweek |
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| Dec 26, 2012 |
''The One Issue Food Activists Should Focus On'' ''Ask a dozen food activists what political change they want to see in 2013 and you’ll get a dozen different answers, maybe two dozen: Restrict sodium in packaged foods. Label genetically modified ingredients. End subsidies to big farms. All are critical. What did meet all the requirements was this: Get antibiotics off the farm and out of the food supply." Source: The Washington Post |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 19, 2012 |
''Think carrots, not candy as school snack, group suggests'' "Junk food may soon be hard to buy at American public schools as the U.S. government readies new rules requiring healthier foods to be sold beyond the cafeteria - a move most parents support, according to a poll released on Thursday." Source: Reuters |
School Food |
| Oct 20, 2005 |
''Three young faculty members named MacArthur 'genius' fellows'' "Nicole King, a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences and molecular biologist from the University of California, Berkeley, was named one of 25 MacArthur Fellows, a prestigious award by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to individuals whose work demonstrates exceptional originality and promise of future advances in their field." Source: UC Berkeley News |
Biomedical Research |
