News Release Archive 2007

• Doctors Petition FDA for Additional Labeling Changes on Avandia: Labels Should Alert Patients that Diet Can Treat Diabetes without Cardiac Risk, Group Says
  (Dec. 18, 2007)

• Dallas, Chicago, and Detroit Top the List of Healthiest Airports, Survey Shows: Washington National and Miami Lag Behind, Las Vegas Is Most Improved
  (Dec. 11, 2007)
  
  
• FDA Petition Would Protect Public from Dangerous Drugs by Mandating Replacement of Outdated Animal Tests, Says Coalition of Doctors and Scientists: Mandatory Alternatives Petition Being Filed Today Would Compel FDA to Modernize Testing Requirements for Drugs, HIV Vaccines, and Other Pharmaceuticals 
  (Nov. 14, 2007)
  
  
• Cancer Specialists, Pediatricians Urge Senate to Reform Farm Bill: More than 300 Oncologists and 400 Pediatricians and Other Physicians Call On Lawmakers to Ensure that Farm Subsidies Promote Healthy Foods
  (Oct. 29, 2007)
  
  
• Doctors Name Healthiest School Lunch Programs in United States: Schools in Illinois, Pennsylvania, California, Washington, and Massachusetts Take Top Honors in Golden Carrot Awards; Winning Menus Emphasize Fruits, Vegetables, Vegetarian Meals
  (Oct. 15, 2007)
  
  
• TV Commercial Exposes Senators' "Dirty Little Secret" About Farm Bill: Larry Craig Spoof Spotlights Disturbing Relationship Between Agribusiness Contributions and Lawmakers’ Subsidies for Pork and Other Unhealthy Foods
  (Sept. 26, 2007)
  
  
• Diabetes Experts Available for Comment on New Diabetes Drug Studies
  (Sept. 12, 2007)
  
  
• The Secret to Long-Term Weight Loss Might Be a Vegan Diet, Research Finds: New Study in Obesity Shows a Vegan Diet with Social Support Helps People Lose More Weight Over Two-Year Period than Conventional Low-Fat Diet
  (Sept. 10, 2007)
  
  
• Prostate Cancer Survival Improves with a Low-Fat Vegan Diet, New Study Shows: Levels of Hormones that Feed Tumors Are Lower in Men Who Consume Less Fat and More Fiber
  (Sept. 4, 2007)
  
  
• Nesquik Commercial Voted Most Deceptive Ad in Online "Badvertisements" Poll: Voters Weight In on Dairy Commercials' Faulty Health and Beauty Claims
  (Aug. 16, 2007)
  
  
• New Report Reveals Surprising Divide in National School Lunch Program: Doctors Issue High Grades for Some School Districts, Failing Grades for Many Others; Nondairy Offerings on the Rise
  (Aug. 14, 2007)
  
  
• Doctors Sue University of California Over Animal Welfare Act Violations: Dog and Monkey Experiments at U.C., San Francisco, Under Fire
  (July 31, 2007)
  
  
• New Study Shows Diet May Counter Racial Disparities in Cancer: Paper in Ethnicity and Disease Underscores Urgent Need to Improve Outcomes in Minorities with Breast and Prostate Cancer
  (July 5, 2007)
  
  
• Residents Sue City of Chandler Over Covance Animal-Testing Facility: Seven Local Plaintiffs and Physicians Group Accuse City Officials of Improper Collaboration with Covance, Violating State Open Meetings Act, Failing to Give Proper Notice of Hearings, and Violating City Zoning Ordinance
  (July 3, 2007)
  
  
• Got Proof? Yoplait, Nesquik, and Got Milk? Commercials Vie for Most Deceptive Ads in Online "Badvertisements" Poll: Dairy "Badvertisements" Mislead Women with Faulty Beauty and Health Claims
  (June 28, 2007)
  
  
• PCRM Extends Nominations Deadline for Golden Carrot Awards to Recognize Healthy School Lunch Programs: Grand Prize of $5,000 Will Recognize Outstanding Food Service Professionals and Highlight the Role of Vegetarian Foods and Healthy School Lunches in the Fight Against Childhood Obesity
  (June 12, 2007)
  
  
• Doctors Respond to Massive Meat Recall by Offering Free “Veggie Starter Kits” to Carnivores Worried About E. Coli: Meatless Diets Can Help Consumers Avoid E. Coli Infection and Reduce Risk of Heart Disease, Physicians Group Says
  (June 11, 2007)  
  
  
• Doctors Offer Free Diabetes Book to Avandia Users: Book Outlines Effective Dietary Approach to Treating Type 2 Diabetes
  (May 31, 2007)
  
  
• USDA and Dairy Industry Halt Misleading Weight-Loss Ads After Physicians Group Complains to Federal Trade Commission: Cheese and Milk Actually Likely to Cause Weight Gain, Doctors Say
  (May 11, 2007)
  
  
• Fish Does Not Protect the Heart, Researchers Say: New Study in American Journal of Cardiology Challenges Belief that Fish Consumption Reduces Risk of Coronary Heart Disease
  (April 30, 2007)
  
  
• Environmentalists Confront Covance at Air Quality Hearing: Public Health Advocates and Environmental Groups Express Pollution Concerns, Demand Information on Animal-Testing Facility’s Plans to Dispose of Carcasses
  (April 30, 2007)
  
  
• Think Doctors Know Nothing About Nutrition? New Guide Changes Everything: Medical Students Across North America Receive PCRM’s Nutrition Guide for Clinicians
  (April 19, 2007)
  
  
• New Webcast for Diabetes Patients Airs Every Thursday: Hundreds Tune In to Free Weekly Lectures, Cooking Demonstrations, and Support Group
  (April 9, 2007)
  
  
• What’s the Worst ‘Badvertisement’? Fiber Choice, Lipitor, and Zetia Vie for Worst Health Commercial in Online Poll: TV Spots Send Irresponsible Health Messages, Tout Needless Pills and Supplements
  (Mar. 20, 2007)
  
  
• Doctors Make Final Pitch to Save 60 Dogs Slated to Be Killed in Medical College of Wisconsin's Controversial Dog Lab; Demonstrators Will Urge Students Not to Participate: Feb. 26 Marks Start of Three-Day Class That Will Kill Dogs to Teach Basic Physiology; Most Other U.S. Medical Schools Use Non-Animal Alternatives
  (Feb. 26, 2007)
  
  
• Physicians Group Asks Federal Trade Commission to Ban Cheese Ads During “SpongeBob Squarepants” and Other Television Shows Aimed at Children: Proposal Modeled After New Regulation Taking Effect Early This Year in the United Kingdom
  (Feb. 8, 2007)
  
  
• Pills or Papayas? Survey Finds Americans Want Healthful Foods, Not More Medicines: Sixty-Nine Percent of Respondents Would Prefer to Treat Diabetes with Dietary Changes, Such as a Vegetarian Diet, Rather than Medication; Findings Reinforce Clinical Research Outlined in New Book
  (Feb. 1, 2007)
  
  
• Doctors Lead Protest Outside Medical College to Save 60 Dogs Scheduled to Die in School’s Controversial Dog Lab: Jan. 25 Demonstration Opposes Medical College of Wisconsin’s Use of Live Animals to Teach Basic Physiology; Most U.S. Medical Schools Now Use Non-Animal Alternatives
  (Jan. 25, 2007)
  
  
• Cruelty-Free Insulin Test Explained in New Journal Article: Testing for Insulin Without the Pitter-Patter of Little Feet; New Journal Article Outlines Mouse-Free and Animal-Serum-Free Method of Producing Cruelty-Free ELISA for Human Insulin
  (Jan. 23, 2007)
  
  
• Diabetes Epidemic Is Reversible with Diet, Says Nutrition Researcher: New Book Shows Low-Fat Vegan Diet More Effective than Standard Treatments
  (Jan. 9, 2007)
  
  
• Wisconsin Humane Society and National Physicians Group Urge Milwaukee Residents to Help End Cruel Dog Lab at Medical College: Billboard Draws Motorists to New Web Site to Save 60 Dogs Scheduled to Die in Medical College of Wisconsin’s Controversial Course
  (Jan. 4, 2007)

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