Press Releases
Press Releases
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| Mar 22, 2010 |
Pew Prescription Project Statement on the Physician Payments Sunshine Act Allan Coukell, director of the Pew Prescription Project, issued the following statement today, commending Congress for including provisions from the Physician Payments Sunshine Act in health care reform legislation. The provisions would require drug and device companies to publicly report the gifts and payments they make to doctors. |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Apr 28, 2010 |
Laura Rogers, project director of the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, issued the following statement today, commenting on a hearing of the U.S. House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health, where representatives of the Obama administration are expected to present testimony regarding the need to protect Americans from the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 10, 2010 |
The Produce Safety Project today issued a report that examines the steps taken by select European Union (EU) countries to reform their food safety data collection and analysis systems since the 1990s. Authored by Michael Batz, head of Food Safety Programs, Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida, and J. Glenn Morris, Jr., director at the Institute, the report, "Building the Science Foundation of a Modern Food Safety System," looks at European countries with strong food safety systems and makes a number of recommendations on how to improve those in the United States. |
Food Safety |
| Jun 8, 2010 |
RWJF and Pew Award Six Grants to Examine the Impact of Policy on People’s Health The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, today announced more than $1 million in grants to six projects that will conduct health impact assessments at the state and local levels. |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Jun 17, 2010 |
Promising Latin American Biomedical Scientists Named 2010 Pew Fellows The Pew Charitable Trusts today named 10 gifted biomedical researchers as 2010 Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences. |
Biomedical Research |
| Jun 17, 2010 |
The Pew Charitable Trusts today named 21 talented scientists as Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. |
Biomedical Research |
| Jun 29, 2010 |
Laura Rogers, project director of the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, issued the following statement today on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) draft guidance on "The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 13, 2010 |
On the eve of a July 14 hearing conducted by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health to examine the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture, the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, in collaboration with Health Care Without Harm, held an audio news conference on the need to end the overuse of these drugs in meat production. |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 20, 2010 |
Pew Health Group Report Measures Financial Habits of Low-Income Families in Greater Los Angeles Half of low-income families in Greater Los Angeles turn to costly and unregulated alternative financial services (AFS) rather than banks to meet their monetary needs, according to a new survey released today by the Pew Health Group’s Safe Banking Opportunities Project. |
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| Jul 22, 2010 |
Pew Report Finds Credit Cards More Transparent, Yet Problems Remain Most of the practices deemed “unfair” or “deceptive” by the Federal Reserve have disappeared from new credit card offers since federal passage of the Credit CARD Act last year, according to a new report by the Pew Health Group’s Safe Credit Cards Project. Yet new trends have emerged that could cost cardholders significantly. |
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| Aug 3, 2010 |
The Pew Prescription Project, joined by major consumer, physician and chemical manufacturer groups, today announced support for a new bill that would give the FDA much-needed authorities to better protect pharmaceutical supply chains. |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Aug 11, 2010 |
Pew Applauds Introduction of Automatic IRA Legislation, Urges Bipartisan Support Eleni Constantine, director of the Pew Health Group’s financial security portfolio, issued the following statement in support of legislation creating an “automatic IRA,” S. 3760, introduced by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and H.R. 6099, introduced by Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA). |
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| Aug 19, 2010 |
Nick Bourke, director of the Pew Health Group’s Safe Credit Cards Project, today issued the following statement in response to the final rules under the Credit CARD Act of 2009, which will take effect Sunday, August 22. |
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| Sep 29, 2010 |
New Analysis of Major U.S. Trade Partners Shows Produce-Safety Regulatory Progress A number of major countries exporting fresh vegetables and fruit into the United States have modernized food-safety laws and regulations over the past two decades to emphasize preventive measures, according to new report released today by the Produce Safety Project (PSP) at Georgetown University. The report, “Legal and Regulatory Frameworks Governing the Growing, Packing and Handling of Fresh Produce in Countries Exporting to the U.S.,” presents a series of case studies examining five of the top 10 U.S. produce trade partners – Canada, Chile, China, Mexico and Peru. The report was written by Monachus Consulting, an international agricultural industry consulting firm based in Canada. |
Food 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 |
