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The Battle on the Home Front: Jonathan Gadsden's Story
Marine Lance Corporal's story reflects the growing need for new antibiotics that can treat dangerous diseases, against which most drugs are useless. Read More
Facilitating Medical Device Innovation: De Novo Reform
The de novo process -- which requests lower-risk reclassification of medical devices and entry into the marketplace -- as it exists now is not achieving its purpose and has instead added unnecessary and time-consuming requirements. Read More
Food Products Recalled by FDA
Since President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act into law, at least 149 FDA-regulated food products have been recalled due to potential pathogenic contamination. Read More
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| Date | Issue Briefs | Topic |
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| Apr 13, 2010 |
Comments Submitted to the Federal Reserve by the Pew Safe Credit Cards Project (Regulation Z, Reasonable and Proportional Penalty Charges and Other Rules Under the Credit CARD Act of 2009)The Pew Health Group’s Safe Credit Cards Project submitted comments to the Federal Reserve Board regarding the Board’s proposed rules under Regulation Z (Docket No. R-1384). The rules cover “reasonable and proportional” penalty charges and other requirements under the Credit CARD Act of 2009. More info |
Credit Cards |
| May 7, 2010 |
Avoiding Antibiotic ResistanceDenmark's Ban on Growth Promoting Antibiotics in Food Animalssaveantibiotics_org_denmark_htmlAntibiotics are the crown jewels of medicine. These life saving drugs are vital to human health—treating everything from strep throat to skin infections to bacterial pneumonia. More info |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 15, 2010 |
Capitol Hill Briefing: Reducing Antibiotic ResistanceOn May 5, 2010, Pew hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill in collaboration with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Louise Slaughter, and Rep. Howard Berman. Panelists included an official from the World Health Organization, a veterinarian from Denmark's Technical University, the proprietor of a Danish hog farm and a scientist from Denmark's State Serum Institute. More info |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 1, 2010 |
Toxic Chemicals and Reproductive HealthOver the past few decades, the reproductive health of Americans appears to have declined. Diseases, disorders and conditions that affect the development and functioning of the male and female reproductive systems—including fertility problems, miscarriages, pre-term births, low birthweights and certain birth defects—have risen. In addition, incidence rates of testicular cancer have increased, and breast and prostate cancers remain among the most common forms of cancer in the U.S. More info |
Environmental Risk |
| Jul 14, 2010 |
Supporting Materials: Hearing on Antibiotic Resistance and the use of Antibiotics in Animal AgricultureOn July 14, 2010, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing to examine the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture. View PDF files of some of the materials entered into the hearing record by organizations and health and agricultural professionals. More info |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 14, 2010 |
Official Text: Hearing on Antibiotic Resistance and the use of Antibiotics in Animal AgricultureThe CDC lists control over infectious disease as one of its top 10 great public health achievements of the last century, and antimicrobials are crucial to that accomplishment. And yet we must collectively be alarmed that we are undermining the power of antibiotics by failing to use them judiciously. More info |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 14, 2010 |
Testimony: Gail R. Hansen before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on HealthAntibiotics are overused in industrial farming to the detriment of human health. Antibiotic overuse has spurred generations of bacteria that are causing life threatening illnesses that were once easily treatable with antibiotics. Effective alternatives are available to agribusiness. Congress has the opportunity to enact legislation that will curtail the use of antibiotics in industrial food animal production without having significant economic impact on the industry. |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 27, 2010 |
Effects of Banning the Use of Antibiotics as Growth Promoters in Denmark and ScandinaviaA listing of major reports and journal articles regarding the effects of banning the use of antibiotics as food animal growth promoters in Denmark and Scandinavia. More info |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 3, 2010 |
Americans' Attitudes on Prescription Drug SafetyThis issue brief presents key findings from a nationwide survey about the safety of the U.S. drug supply among voters conducted March 29 –April 1, 2010 for the Pew Prescription Project by Hart Research Associates Public Opinion Strategies. More info |
Drug Safety, Medical Safety Policy |
| Aug 3, 2010 |
Drug Safety and Accountability Act of 2010The Drug Safety and Accountability Act of 2010 (S.3690) seeks to strengthen industry standards to ensure the quality and safety of drugs made for the U.S. market, and to improve the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) oversight abilities through modernized information systems and new authorities, such as the power to order a drug recall. More info |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
