Health

Charles Rice, Ph.D., a molecular virologist at Rockefeller University and 1986 Pew biomedical scholar, will receive the 2016 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award on Sept. 23 for his role in finding an effective treatment for hepatitis C, an infectious disease that afflicts more than 130 million people worldwide and contributes to 700,000 deaths annually. Rice devised a system to grow... Read More

When the new import rules commence—the first takes effect in May 2017—they will help ensure that the safety standards applied to food produced domestically are also applied to items entering the United States from other countries, but only if the FDA receives the necessary funds to fully implement and enforce them. Read More

People with life-threatening allergies have long relied on the EpiPen, an injection device that dispenses epinephrine, to reverse symptoms of severe allergic reactions. But steep price increases for the drug over the past decade—including a more than 100 percent increase in the past three years—have sparked outrage from consumers who now face sizable, and often unaffordable,... Read More

Pew strongly supports the responsible antibiotic use approach as an important tool in improving stewardship of these lifesaving drugs. Read More

An estimated 1 in 6 Americans contracts a foodborne illness each year, but that figure should decline as a result of safety measures that thousands of food facilities must implement by Sept. 19. That’s the deadline for large food processors to meet new prevention-based regulations developed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which oversees the safety of roughly 80 percent of... Read More

Charles Rice, Ph.D., a molecular virologist at Rockefeller University and 1986 Pew biomedical scholar, will receive the 2016 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award on Sept. 23 for his role in finding an effective treatment for hepatitis C, an infectious disease that afflicts more than 130 million people worldwide and contributes to 700,000 deaths annually. Rice devised a system to grow... Read More

When the new import rules commence—the first takes effect in May 2017—they will help ensure that the safety standards applied to food produced domestically are also applied to items entering the United States from other countries, but only if the FDA receives the necessary funds to fully implement and enforce them. Read More

People with life-threatening allergies have long relied on the EpiPen, an injection device that dispenses epinephrine, to reverse symptoms of severe allergic reactions. But steep price increases for the drug over the past decade—including a more than 100 percent increase in the past three years—have sparked outrage from consumers who now face sizable, and often unaffordable,... Read More

Pew strongly supports the responsible antibiotic use approach as an important tool in improving stewardship of these lifesaving drugs. Read More

An estimated 1 in 6 Americans contracts a foodborne illness each year, but that figure should decline as a result of safety measures that thousands of food facilities must implement by Sept. 19. That’s the deadline for large food processors to meet new prevention-based regulations developed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which oversees the safety of roughly 80 percent of... Read More

Those responsible for overseeing the safety of U.S. meat and poultry must take additional steps to protect consumers from newly emerging pathogens and from evolving strains of existing microbes, according to a report released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The report, “Emerging Pathogens in Meat and Poultry,” identifies the ways in which evolving bacterial and viral threats... Read More

The Pew Charitable Trusts today named 22 exceptional early-career scientists as Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences. The 2016 class of Pew biomedical scholars is drawn from prestigious institutions across the country, with each scholar receiving four years of flexible funding to pursue foundational, innovative research. Read More

The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust announced today the 2016 class of Pew-Stewart scholars for cancer research. Read More

The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced the newest class of Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences. Read More

The Pew Charitable Trusts today released a strategy to end the 30-year drought in the discovery of new types of antibiotics, key to fighting some of the most serious microbial threats. The Scientific Roadmap for Antibiotic Discovery identifies priority research goals and specific steps to break through the most significant scientific barriers impeding antibiotic discovery and to pave the way for... Read More

Understand why new pathogens emerge and how to best respond. This infographic is associated with a new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts, “Emerging Pathogens in Meat and Poultry." Read More

Pew’s biomedical scholars and fellows are on the cutting edge of biomedical research—using new tools and techniques to tackle complex questions about human health. Every day, they look closely at the molecules and cells that make up our bodies and surroundings. Could you identify their objects of study? Take this quiz to view some of their subjects up close, and see if you can guess what they are. Read More

Students are heading back to school, and that means cafeterias are bustling again. The nation’s school nutrition professionals serve 5 billion healthy lunches a year as well as millions of breakfasts, snacks, and even suppers. Test your school food knowledge and see if you know as much as you think you do! Read More

Consumers across the United States are demanding meat and poultry sourced from producers who use antibiotics responsibly—and large restaurants, producers, and supermarkets are listening. Following is a list of some leading companies that have committed to using their purchasing policies to be part of the solution to the problem of antibiotic resistance. Read More

Nearly 19,000 people in the United States died from overdoses that involved prescription pain relievers, alsoknown as opioids, in 2014. This represents a 16 percent increase from the previous year and is the highestnumber recorded—equivalent to 52 deaths each day. Read More