Opinions
Opinions
| Date | Opinions | Topic |
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| Jun 2, 2011 |
''The High Cost of Cheap Meat'' "The point of factory farming is cheap meat, made possible by confining large numbers of animals in small spaces. Perhaps the greatest hidden cost is its potential effect on human health." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| 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 |
| May 7, 2013 |
''The Senate Aims to Clean Up Compounding Pharmacies'' When a doctor sticks a needle in you, you expect that the drugs it carries won’t be tainted. But, possibly owing to a strange gray area in federal law, thousands of patients last October got injections for back pain that contained highly dangerous fungal meningitis, and dozens of them died. Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee are now seeking to fix the government’s oversight of the obscure world of compounding pharmacies. The reforms they want are overdue. |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| 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 |
| Oct 22, 2010 |
The U.S. Needs More Weapons in the Fight Against Superbugs Director of Pew Health Group Medical Safety, Allan Coukell, discusses antibiotic resistance and U.S. policy after a Washington Post health piece on resistant superbugs. |
Antibiotic Innovation |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Oct 19, 2011 |
''Thinking outside the doctor’s office to build a strong, healthy nation'' "The most urgent health problems facing our nation — such as obesity, asthma, diabetes, heart disease and injuries — are shaped more by where we live and work than by what happens in the doctor’s office or hospital." |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Jan 16, 2013 |
''Time to Move on New Food Rules'' "America hasn't made major changes to its food-safety laws since the 1930s, so it probably should come as no surprise that - once a decision was finally made to update them - it took two more years to generate new regulations. But the Food and Drug Administration's menu for reform is now mostly assembled, and that's welcome news. For decades, federal regulators have reacted to outbreaks of foodborne illnesses rather than working aggressively to prevent them." |
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." |
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| Aug 24, 2012 |
''Tracking a Superbug at the NIH'' "A deadly outbreak of antibiotic-resistant bacteria last year at the Clinical Research Center of the National Institutes of Health offers a fascinating and frightening window on the future of medicine. Fascinating because scientists used whole-genome sequencing to obtain a fine-grained blueprint of the genetic material in the bacteria and to track how it spread. Frightening because the bacteria, resistant to multiple antibiotics, defied efforts to control it in the 234-bed hospital in Bethesda." |
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| Jul 26, 2012 |
''Washington's election-year paralysis hurts the nation'' "A federal food safety law shifting the government's focus from responding to dangerous contamination to preventing it has been heralded as the most sweeping food security reform in decades. But 18 months after the law was enacted, the rules needed to put it into effect are nowhere to be seen. That inaction is just one example of a disheartening election-year paralysis in Washington." |
Food 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 |
| 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 |
| Dec 17, 2007 |
''When a Child Can't Be Home for Christmas'' "For youth from foster care, the holidays are often a stark reminder of what it means not to have a family. We miss the comfort of knowing we have a place where we are always welcome, year after year. We don't know the family traditions of mom's best tablecloth and china, dad's carving the turkey, grandma's famous stuffing recipe, football in the den with the cousins, or even the inevitable family dramas." |
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