Opinions
Opinions
| Date | Opinions | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 2009 |
''The withdrawal of drug-company money'' "In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has been repeatedly (and rightly) excoriated for its shameless efforts to promote its products: Freebies handed out to doctors as inducements to prescribe particular drugs." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Feb 28, 2009 |
''Antibiotic Misuse in Animals Hurts Human Health'' "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working to build public awareness regarding the dangers of people overusing antibiotics." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 8, 2009 |
"While your editorial ('Delmarva travel warning,' Tuesday) made light of the dangers of driving behind trucks transporting intensively raised chickens..." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 28, 2008 |
''We need antibiotic ban in foods'' "For two years my colleagues at the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production and I poured over volumes of data on what the Food and Drug Administration calls on its Web site 'a growing threat,' ..." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Nov 3, 2008 |
''Let public see doctors’ ties to drug companies'' "What is the appropriate relationship between the medical profession and the drug industry? Last month, Dr. Charles Nemeroff stepped down as chair of Emory University’s psychiatry department after a Senate investigation exposed his failure to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in industry consulting and speaking fees, including payments from Glaxo-SmithKline, whose drug he was also studying using taxpayer dollars from the National Institutes of Health." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Aug 10, 2008 |
''A Second Chance for Children'' Children can spend months or years in foster care waiting for a permanent home, particularly those who are older or have special needs. The federal Adoption Incentive Program helps by giving states money to promote adoptions of children in foster care. But the program will expire next month unless Congress acts. |
Health Topics |
| May 31, 2008 |
"In the past month, two new reports have examined how farm animals are raised in this country." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 13, 2008 |
''Foster Care Should Respect Heritage'' "According to a report by the National Indian Child Welfare Association and Kids Are Waiting, Washington has one of the nation's highest rates of American Indian foster children. While they make up only 2 percent of Washington's child population, American Indians represent 8.4 percent of children in foster care." |
Health Topics |
| May 9, 2008 |
''Big Farms Can Be Bad For Your Health'' "In 1950 the United States produced about the name number of hogs as it does today, on significantly more farms, smaller farms and with many more workers." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 26, 2008 |
''America's Foreclosure Crisis'' "CNN's Lou Dobbs reports on the foreclosure crisis, including commentary by Susan Urahn, Managing Director of the Pew Center on the States." |
