Health

For those who produce our food and oversee its safety, understanding how and why a foodborne disease outbreak occurred is a vital step in avoiding future ones and reducing the estimated 48 million illnesses caused each year by Salmonella, E. coli, and other microorganisms. The Pew Charitable Trusts is working with federal food safety officials, representatives of food companies, and other experts... Read More

To improve protection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture should better align its inspections with the risks posed to human health, a determination that should be made based on a range of relevant factors, including the particular animals slaughtered, products produced, and food facilities involved. Read More

A recent report by the Gerontological Society of America provides a plan to address the unmet need for oral health care services for older adults with limited access to care. Read More

The Pew Charitable Trusts sent a letter Aug. 11 to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services summarizing possible unintended consequences of a proposal to reduce Medicare Part B payments to hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Discount Program, such as hospitals choosing to forgo discounted medicines in favor of the list price. Read More

Three Pew Latin American fellows have been awarded grants by the Bunge and Born Foundation and the Williams Foundation to help launch their laboratories in Argentina. These grants will augment awards from the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences for scientists to study in the U.S., with additional funds to purchase equipment to start their own labs when they return to... Read More

For those who produce our food and oversee its safety, understanding how and why a foodborne disease outbreak occurred is a vital step in avoiding future ones and reducing the estimated 48 million illnesses caused each year by Salmonella, E. coli, and other microorganisms. The Pew Charitable Trusts is working with federal food safety officials, representatives of food companies, and other experts... Read More

To improve protection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture should better align its inspections with the risks posed to human health, a determination that should be made based on a range of relevant factors, including the particular animals slaughtered, products produced, and food facilities involved. Read More

A recent report by the Gerontological Society of America provides a plan to address the unmet need for oral health care services for older adults with limited access to care. Read More

The Pew Charitable Trusts sent a letter Aug. 11 to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services summarizing possible unintended consequences of a proposal to reduce Medicare Part B payments to hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Discount Program, such as hospitals choosing to forgo discounted medicines in favor of the list price. Read More

Three Pew Latin American fellows have been awarded grants by the Bunge and Born Foundation and the Williams Foundation to help launch their laboratories in Argentina. These grants will augment awards from the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences for scientists to study in the U.S., with additional funds to purchase equipment to start their own labs when they return to... Read More

WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that it will create a digital platform allowing researchers to share data, ideas, and insights to spur the discovery of innovative new antibiotics needed in the battle against the growing global threat of drug-resistant bacteria, or superbugs. Read More

WASHINGTON—Wider use of evidence-based food safety interventions on farms and feedlots would significantly reduce the risk of people getting sick from contaminated meat and poultry, according to a report released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The report, “Food Safety From Farm to Fork,” examines potential means to prevent foodborne illnesses by investing in strategies to... Read More

The Pew Charitable Trusts announces 22 exceptional early-career researchers as Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences. Each scholar will receive four years of flexible funding to pursue foundational research. Read More

Ten pioneering postdoctoral scientists from Latin America will each be awarded two years of funding to conduct research at laboratories and academic institutions in the United States. The 2017 fellows are from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, and their research interests range from the design of mosquito control tools to combat the spread of malaria to how obesity, cancer, and... Read More

The work of the 2017 class is investigating several promising avenues to slow or stop the development of cancer, including research on how to destroy leukemia cells and how cancer cells evade destruction by drug therapies. Read More

Untreated opioid use disorder (OUD), a chronic brain disease, has a serious cost to people, their families, and society via increased health care spending, criminal justice issues, and lost productivity. Read More

Electronic health records (EHRs) hold key information: a patient’s medical history, medications, allergies and more. But patients see multiple doctors in different locations, and current ways of matching people to their records are inadequate. Read More

Pew’s drug safety project has identified more than 50 reported compounding errors or potential errors associated with 1,197 adverse events, including 99 deaths, from 2001 to 2016. Because many such events may go unreported, this chart is likely an underestimation of the number of compounding errors since 2001. Contamination of sterile products was the most common error; others were the... Read More

As of March 2017, an estimated 32 new products with the potential to treat or prevent serious bacterial infections are in clinical development. Below is a snapshot of the current nontraditional products pipeline, based on publicly available information and informed by external experts. It is updated periodically, as products advance or are known to drop out of development. Because this list is... Read More

Where superbugs come from and what can be done to combat them. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose anurgent and growing public health threat. Read More