Press Releases
Press Releases
| Date | Press Releases | Topic |
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| Oct 10, 2011 |
Consider this: school meals can be healthy, affordable and appealing to kids. Hard to believe? Districts across the United States are proving it can be done.
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School Food |
| May 18, 2011 |
Business Credit Cards Place Millions of U.S. Households at Risk The Credit CARD Act of 2009, signed into law two years ago, made consumer credit cards safer and more transparent. But, its rules did not apply to cards labeled for business or commercial use, placing millions of individuals and small business owners at risk. |
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| Jul 30, 2008 |
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) announced today that the panel will hold a business meeting on Friday morning to consider three proposals that would support vulnerable children and protect senior citizens. Baucus said the proposals would strengthen and renew adoption incentives and foster care policies, provide resources to prevent elder abuse, neglect and exploitation, and do more to protect patients receiving care in nursing homes. |
Health Topics |
| Sep 19, 2012 | Prescription painkillers are responsible for more fatal overdoses in the United States than heroin and cocaine combined. And while most states have programs to curb abuse and addiction, a new report shows that many states do not fully analyze the data they collect. | Drug Safety |
| Oct 7, 2010 |
Antibiotics Overuse: Why Healthcare Should Care about Agriculture Use Of all the antibiotics consumed each year in the U.S. only an estimated 15 percent are used for human therapy. |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Sep 22, 2011 |
Antibiotics Conference Addresses Lack of New Drugs to Fight Deadly Superbugs Leaders from government, industry, academia, medicine and science today will come together to discuss one of the most pressing health challenges we face: the rising incidence of drug-resistant bacteria and the lack of new antibiotics to fight them. |
Antibiotic Innovation |
| Nov 15, 2005 |
Americans’ knowledge of genetically modified (GM) foods and animals continues to remain low, and their opinions reflect that they are particularly uncomfortable with animal cloning, according to a new survey released today by the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology. |
Food Safety |
| Nov 19, 2007 |
American Indian Children Overrepresented in Nation's Foster Care System, New Report Finds American Indian and Alaskan Native children are overrepresented in the nation's foster care system at more than 1.6 times the expected level, according to a new report by the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) and the national, nonpartisan Kids Are Waiting campaign, a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Yet tribal governments are excluded from some of the largest sources of federal child welfare funding. |
Health Topics |
| Sep 15, 2008 |
America’s Leading Thinkers Propose Innovative New Ideas for Investing in America’s Children A selection of America's leading thinkers, including a Nobel laureate, award winning economists, researchers, and other notable experts have come together to provide 22 innovative new proposals for dramatically improving the lives of America's children. |
Health Topics |
| Nov 12, 2012 |
America Gets Mixed Score on ''Antibiotics IQ'' Test Nearly nine in 10 Americans recognize that antibiotics are effective treatments for fighting bacterial infections like strep throat, but more than a third mistakenly believe the drugs are also appropriate treatments for viral infections such as the common cold. |
Antibiotic Innovation |
