Opinions
Opinions
| Date | Opinions | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 2009 |
''Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health'' "The late Tom Anderson, the family doctor in this little farm town in northwestern Indiana, at first was puzzled, then frightened." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 11, 2009 |
''You Can't Catch MRSA by Reading About It...'' "…as far as we know. But one of the journalistic challenges here is that we don’t know a lot about MRSA, and so the challenge in my Thursday column was how to raise public concern about a legitimate public health issue without becoming alarmist and exaggerating the danger." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| Aug 6, 2012 |
Biomedical Science Programs Make a Positive Impact on Research The Pew Scholars Program and The Pew Latin American Fellows Program support promising early-career scientists from North, South and Central America in the health sciences — particularly young researchers with innovative approaches and ideas. Anita Pepper, Director of the Pew Programs in the Biomedical Sciences, explains the benefits of the programs. |
Biomedical Research |
| Dec 12, 2010 |
''America's young scientists at risk'' "Rising Above The Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 provides a troubling sequel to an influential 2005 study, which called for action and investment in 20 specific areas of science, math and engineering education, research and science and technology policy. But as the hurricane metaphor in the report's title broadcasts, our nation is more at risk than ever: "It would appear that overall the United States' long-term competitiveness outlook (read jobs) has further deteriorated," according to the blue-ribbon panel that prepared the new analysis." |
Biomedical Research |
| Feb 19, 2013 |
''Finding Out Who Pays Your Doctor'' "The Obama administration issued a new rule this month that requires the makers of prescription drugs and other medical products to disclose what they pay doctors for various purposes, like consulting or speaking on behalf of the manufacturer. This overdue rule adds much-needed weight to previous, more limited disclosure requirements." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Jan 20, 2012 |
''Who Else Is Paying Your Doctor?'' "It took longer than expected, but the Obama administration is finally poised to enact badly needed regulations requiring that the manufacturers of drugs, medical devices and medical supplies disclose all payments they make to doctors or teaching hospitals." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Dec 25, 2011 |
''Speed up work on payment disclosure'' "Two-and-a-half months after blowing a congressional deadline, federal officials have finally gotten around to rolling out the Physician Payments Sunshine Act -- a historic new law requiring medical device and pharmaceutical industries to disclose payments to doctors." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
