Opinions
Opinions
| Date | Opinions | Topic |
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| Jul 19, 2011 |
"To me, the biggest issue is not whether pigs are raised organically or "naturally"; it's whether they're raised well." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 24, 2012 |
A Healthy Dose of Bipartisanship Passed by Congress on June 26 and signed by President Obama on July 9, the FDA Safety and Innovation Act will increase inspections of foreign manufacturers that supply 80 percent of the ingredients in our pharmaceuticals, putting American companies on the same footing as their foreign competitors. In addition, it requires drug makers to hold their suppliers to high standards. |
Medical Safety |
| Feb 28, 2008 |
''A line between docs and drugs'' "Both the drug industry and the teaching hospitals play essential roles in modern medicine, but their functions need to be kept separate, as they will be under a policy recently unveiled by UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester." |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Dec 31, 2012 |
A New Year's Resolution: Put Animals on an Antibiotics Diet As Americans ring in the new year, many of us will resolve to get healthy. Meat and poultry producers can help -- by making a resolution to put their farm animals on an antibiotics diet. |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| 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 24, 2009 |
''A welcome reform of credit card rules'' "Congress is throwing a rope to credit card users who have been trapped by an industry whose standard operating procedures include deceptive practices, arbitrary rules changes and crippling interest rates. The aid couldn't come at a better time." |
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| 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." |
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| 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 |
| Aug 27, 2012 |
''An Uncontrollable Outbreak'' ''The menace posed by germs resistant to powerful antibiotics was all too apparent when a deadly, drug-resistant form of pneumonia bacteria struck the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health last year. It infected 17 patients and killed 6 of them. This disheartening episode shows again the importance of slowing the development of resistant strains by reducing rampant overuse of antibiotics — and of developing new, more effective antibiotics." |
Antibiotic Innovation |
| 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 |
| 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 6, 2012 |
''Antibiotics and agriculture'' "Federal drug regulators Wednesday announced new rules requiring farmers and ranchers to restrict their use of a critical class of antibiotics known as cephalosporins in cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 15, 2009 |
"The American meat industry is addicted to antibiotics. This dates to the late 1940s, when farmers discovered that antibiotics could do more than just cure disease. Antibiotics regularly mixed into feed could help animals avoid common illnesses -- and thus grow faster as well as better withstand the crowded and sometimes unsanitary conditions on factory farms." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| 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 |
| Mar 28, 2013 |
''Antibiotics and the Meat We Eat'' "Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration systematically monitor the meat and poultry sold in supermarkets around the country for the presence of disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. These food products are bellwethers that tell us how bad the crisis of antibiotic resistance is getting. And they’re telling us it’s getting worse." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 11, 2013 |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production: Pew’s Response to Raymond Op-Ed In his attempt to clarify the issue of antibiotic use in meat and poultry production, Dr. Richard Raymond confuses matters. Most importantly, Dr. Raymond mischaracterizes the value of tetracyclines and the dangers of their overuse. |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 15, 2012 |
"Two important events in recent weeks a regulatory guideline and a federal court decision have raised hopes that progress can be made in curbing the widespread use of antibiotics ... " |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Feb 28, 2013 |
''Antibiotics, Animals and Us'' Describing the routine use of antibiotics in meat and poultry production as a "serious threat to public health," the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2010 called on livestock operations to voluntarily reduce their reliance on the medications. But an FDA report this month indicates that, so far, the results are unimpressive: Antibiotic sales to livestock operations rose in 2011, rather than falling. |
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 |
| 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 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 |
| Mar 5, 2013 |
"Study after study has found that the practice of feeding subtherapeutic doses of antibiotics to livestock to enhance growth is a threat to public health because it can lead to the breeding of antibiotic-resistant organisms, rendering essential drugs useless against disease-carrying organisms. Now there is alarming new evidence that unchecked antibiotic use in Chinese livestock farming has led to antibiotic-resistant genes in bacteria. China produces and uses more antibiotics than any other country, and nearly half the antibiotics it uses are fed to livestock." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Sep 4, 2011 |
''Congress must maintain funding for food safety'' "My 3 year old daughter Aly ate E. coli contaminated food in the summer of 1999 and died as a result. Her story is proof that deadly pathogens lurk in the foods we eat every day." |
Food Hazards |
| Jun 28, 2013 |
''Congress Shouldn't Weaken Food Safety Laws'' "Being a Minnesotan, Jeff Almer searched for a polite term to describe how he feels about a congressional push to roll back the new food safety laws his family fought for when his elderly mother died after eating salmonella-laced peanut butter in late 2008." |
Food Safety |
