Opinions
Opinions
| Date | Opinions | Topic |
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| Oct 16, 2009 |
''Last Minute Credit Card Tricks'' "The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, signed into law in May, gave credit card companies a leisurely timetable — as long as 15 months — to phase out predatory practices used to bleed consumers. Not surprisingly, the companies have exploited this generosity by driving already outrageous interest rates still higher and imposing fees that are pushing struggling families further into debt. Congress can end this injustice by moving up the deadline, accelerating reform and helping consumers." |
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| Oct 22, 2009 |
"Congress blundered badly when it gave the credit card industry as long as 15 months to phase out the deceptive and predatory practices that were outlawed in a new law enacted in May." |
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| Jan 3, 2010 |
"One of the profound blessings in the age of modern medicine is that, when infection sets in, doctors can draw upon an array of antibiotics to knock the germs for a loop. Just imagine how it would have been for our ancestors, for whom a simple cut or bad tooth could mean "blood poisoning" and death." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 6, 2010 |
"Until three months ago, Thomas M. Dukes was a vigorous, healthy executive at a California plastics company." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 13, 2010 |
''Healthy livestock, sick people'' "Year after year, legislation intended to preserve the effectiveness of available antibiotics by limiting their use in livestock is shot down." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 14, 2010 |
"Congress passed legislation last year intended to protect consumers from the credit card industry’s most deceptive and unfair practices. The main provisions finally went into effect last month. But the Federal Reserve still has to write new rules intended to stop companies from bleeding customers dry with exorbitant fees for late payments, with charges for exceeding the credit limit, or with “any other penalty fee or charge.” |
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| Mar 30, 2010 |
"Last week, fire ravaged a warehouse at a Marseilles, Ohio, egg farm. Power was cut off to two of the farms’ 16 chicken barns, and 250,000 chickens either died or had to be euthanized because of the loss of environmental control." |
Food Safety |
| Apr 3, 2010 |
''Pearls before swine: It's time to cut the use of antibiotics in farm animals'' "Everybody knows that it is possible to have too much of a good thing -- and that is true also of antibiotic drugs, the great lifesavers of modern medicine." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 6, 2010 |
''The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is getting serious about the threat routine use of antibiotics in livestock poses to human health.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 18, 2010 |
"Now that Congress has pushed through its complicated legislation to reform the health insurance system, it could take one more simple step to protect the health of all Americans." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 19, 2010 |
''Shining new light on payments to docs'' "Buried deep within the massive health care overhaul passed by Congress are tough new laws that will soon shine a much-needed light on physicians' lucrative financial ties to industry. Known as the Physician Payments Sunshine provisions, these are some of the most significant, yet unheralded, reforms contained in the historic health care legislation signed by President Obama last month." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Apr 28, 2010 |
''Ban Antibiotics for Healthy Food Animals'' "Last year, an estimated 65,000 people in the U.S. were killed by drug-resistant infections—almost the number of people who succumbed to breast cancer and prostate cancer combined." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 15, 2010 |
''Working to Save Lives With Safe Food'' "At age 2, Kyle Allgood of Chubbuck, Idaho, became sickened by a deadly strain of E. coli O157:H7, from contaminated spinach. When Kyle's abdominal pains would not subside, he was flown to a Salt Lake City hospital, where his downward spiral ended in kidney failure, a heart attack and, ultimately, death. The tragedy the Allgood family endured is far from rare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that each year, food-borne illness strikes tens of millions of Americans, hospitalizes hundreds of thousands and kills several thousand—mostly young children like Kyle, the elderly or others who are especially vulnerable." |
Food Safety |
| Jun 30, 2010 |
''The Fed and Your Credit Card'' "Congress passed legislation last year banning many of the worst practices of credit card companies and ordered the Federal Reserve to issue new rules to ensure that late charges and all other penalties — a major source of abuse — are 'reasonable and proportional.' That dubious reading is especially troubling given a recent analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Safe Credit Card Project that found that some companies fail to disclose the penalty interest charges in their contracts — a clear violation of banking law." |
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| Jul 6, 2010 |
''Antibiotics and meat don't mix'' "For the American public's health, it's time for the meat industry to stop administering the drugs preventively but only to animals already ill." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 8, 2010 |
''Resistant to urgent action'' "Antibiotics, it’s what’s for dinner. Antibiotics, the other white meat. Antibiotics, it’s whatever the poultry industry’s slogan is." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 12, 2010 |
''Our view on food safety: To protect humans, curb antibiotic use in animals'' "Antibiotics are modern wonder drugs, but their weakness is that they can gradually put themselves out of business." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 12, 2010 |
''Antibiotics, meat a risky mix'' "Federal regulators have tip-toed around the issue of antibiotics in the nation's meat supply for years." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 10, 2010 |
"Consumers beware: Credit-card companies already are finding ways around the new law designed to crack down on their tricky fees and hidden charges. The Credit Card Accountability Act of 2009 was intended to stop lenders' unfair practices, such as jacking up a cardholder's interest rate without warning or shortening billing cycles. For the most part, the law is working." |
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| Aug 14, 2010 |
''The Drug Safety and Accountability Act is overdue'' "The Drug Safety and Accountability Act, a bill filed today by Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) is long overdue in protecting American citizens from unsafe drugs." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Aug 24, 2010 |
''The Customer Always Comes Last'' "The credit card industry is working hard to subvert the Credit Card Act of 2009, which banned many of the industry’s most predatory practices. The Federal Reserve Board, which oversees and coddles this industry, needs to ensure that consumers get the protections Congress intended, and Americans so clearly need. The Fed also needs to take a hard look at problems cited last month by the Pew Charitable Trust Safe Credit Cards Project." |
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| Sep 2, 2010 |
''Delhi's Fake Drug Whitewash'' Counterfeit drug expert Roger Bate said that a report issued by India's Central Drug Standard Control Organization this summer indicating that less than .1% of drugs sampled in the country were fakes is flawed and contradicts well-established findings by the government and scholars that suggest the number of counterfeits is much higher. |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Sep 21, 2010 |
"Most of the antibiotics sold in the United States — 70 percent — go to the animals we eat, especially pigs and chickens. To speed up growth and to prevent the spread of disease in crowded conditions, growers put small amounts of antibiotics into animals’ daily feed." |
Medical Safety, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Sep 26, 2010 |
''It's enough to make you sick'' "Once again, federal lawmakers failed to take action on much-needed food safety legislation." |
Food Safety |
| Sep 28, 2010 |
''Tougher food safety rules long overdue'' "The House committee hearing last week on the summer's recall of 550 million eggs is exhibit A in the fight for tougher oversight by the Food and Drug Administration." |
