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Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by Random House. Rosenberg has appeared on CSPAN and NPR and lectured at medical schools and at the Mid-Manhattan Public Library.
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Saturday, July 2, 2022Condemn Killing Birds Like This Veterinarians Say to the AVMA--Now! Veterinarians, animal advocates and concerned citizens are saying the AVMA's refusal to formally condemn ventilation shutdown and ventilation shutdown plus heat is a clear instance of the association putting corporations and economic interests over animals and a violation of the Veterinarian's Oath itself.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022UK Reporter Analyzes US Gun Violence in Startling Book What if you didn't grow up amid America's gun culture, but are still a member of the race which suffers the most from U.S gun violence? As Gary Younge, a black reporter who grew up in England demonstrates in a moving new book titled, "Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives," it might cause you to ask hard questions other reporters duck.
Saturday, April 9, 2022Don't Fall For These Drug Maker Ruses This week authors with 17 financial links to drug makersreported that the aggressively marketed rheumatoid arthritis drugs (think Humira) could lower Alzheimer/dementia risks in arthritis patients with cardiovascular disease.
Saturday, March 26, 2022Humor: Back on the Commuter Train? Prepare for This! With gas prices climbing and Covid shutdowns over, many are strap hanging again on the Chicago Transit Authority's (CTA) commuter trains.
Thursday, March 17, 2022Bird Flu Is Back in US Thanks to Factory Farmers Big Food is trying to hide the very expected outbreaks of bird flu. Even as "farmers" gas millions of birds, they try to pretend 1) intensive factory farming doesn't cause/spread the disease 2) bird flu doesn't affect people. Don't believe the lies.
Friday, March 4, 2022Pfizer is not Our Pfriend Thanks to Covid, Pharma is no longer the industry responsible for 100,000 U.S. opioid overdose deaths just last year, a growing number of talcum powder-related ovarian cancers and 38,000 deaths (and 88,000 heart attacks) from Vioxx.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022New Book Hides Mental Health Institute Director's Sordid Past Insel is not the first or last government official to treat himself or herself to the riches of the industry revolving door Louisiana Rep. Billy Tauzin surfaced at PhRMA after overseeing Medicare legislation; CDC director Julie Gerberding surfaced at Merck.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022New FDA Commissioner has 50 Conflicts of Interest Biden has placed two industry shills in charge of the agencies most central to our health--FDA and USDA
Saturday, February 12, 2022More Zoonotic Pandemics Likely--20 Researchers on 5 Continents The COVID-19 pandemic which has killed millions has not increased pandemic prevention say researchers this week in a medical journal.
Thursday, February 10, 2022Bird flu back in US--Watch How Big Food Will Try To Hide It Whether avian influenza or porcine epidemic diarrhea, US factory farmers want to hide the diseases their practices cause
Sunday, February 6, 2022Border Blues: Both Sides of Aisle Have an Immigration Agenda 402,000 migrants were released into the US last year by the Border Patrol though you have to dig deep to find such figures. Border reporting has disappeared in the last six months, no doubt because it is so contentious.
Wednesday, February 2, 20226 Medication Mistakes That You Might Be Making Americans might be the most medicated people in the world thanks to aggressive drug-maker marketing and favorable regulation. But drugs can be over-prescribed, conditions over-diagnosed, and less expensive non-drug treatments slighted. Here are common dangers to watch for in your and your family's medication use.
Friday, January 28, 2022Best Economy Since 1984? Happy days here again--NOT. Yesterday's news seems absurd
Tuesday, January 25, 2022Have We Learned Nothing From The COVID-19 Pandemic? New animal epidemics ignored. Yet even as 41 countries now have outbreaks of avian influenza called HPAI or H5N1 including the US there is little to no reporting on the threat in the US press.
Saturday, January 22, 2022Has This Chicago Furrier Not Heard the News? Over the last few years fur sales have become as dead as their unwilling animal donors. Armani, GUCCI, Prada, Valentino, Versace have banned fur as have large retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's and the Neiman Carcass sorry Marcus group.
Saturday, January 15, 2022Junk Food Sellers Target Poor Countries Big Food is increasingly targeting poor countries as "emerging markets" to please Wall Street and shareholders. The marketing is especially unethical since obese people are more likely to get and give COVID-19
Monday, January 10, 2022Humor: Who's Afraid of the Joke Police? Between the joke police and the woke police, it has never been harder to tell jokes.
Thursday, December 30, 2021New Year's Resolutions for the Men in Your Life We will stop telling a woman she looks beautiful by candlelight or in total darkness and realize this is actually an insult.
Sunday, December 19, 2021Humor: Holiday Dieting--an Oxymoron After months of salad, sit-ups and running (even on snow), you hear yourself say, "Please pass the spinach, mushroom and ricotta tart... and the mashed potatoes... and the cinnamon rolls," as if your evil twin has commandeered your mouth.
Sunday, December 5, 2021Gun Loving Parents like the Crumbleys Are Not Rare According to Oakland County, Michigan prosecutor Karen McDonald, mother Jennifer Crumbley posted that taking Ethan to a shooting range was "a mother-son day" and that she "bought a gun for her baby for Christmas."
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