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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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Thursday, March 5, 2020Breaking News FDA Adds Boxed Warning to Popular Allergy and Asthma Drug "Due to the wide availability of alternative safe and effective allergy medicines with long histories of safety, we have reevaluated the risks and benefits of montelukast and have determined it should not be the first choice treatment particularly when allergic rhinitis symptoms are mild," said the FDA this week about the allergy and asthma drug marketed as Singulair.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011In Shocking "Pharmalateralism," FDA Strips Critic of Voting Rights It's said that it takes 22 FDA safety officers to change a light bulb: 12 to defend the decision to install it, 8 to call it another "lighting option," 6 to quote Big Pharma studies and one to say it doesn't need changing, it just needs a better label. This week's hearings into birth control pills Yaz, Yasmin, Beyaz and Safyral confirm the FDA's dedication to pharmalateralism.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009New Year's Resolutions for the Drug Industry for 2010 Female reps will not "sell" with cleavage and spike heels. Males reps will not high five each other or call them "dude." Reps who sold drugs that were later withdrawn will be banished.
Sunday, February 14, 2016On This Day in Gun Massacre History It has only been eight years since Stephen Phillip Kazmierczak shot 25, killing 5 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL on Valentine's Day.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019Belgium Bans Cruel Ritual Slaughter Still Allowed in the US Another country has banned the cruel practice of ritual slaughter--kosher slaughter, sanctioned by Jewish law and halal slaughter, sanctioned by Islamic law.
Sunday, October 15, 2017Get Ready to Eat Chinese Chickens Imported food regulation has many loopholes. By the FDA's own audit, six out of eight of its shrimp certifiers did not even know what drugs and chemicals were approved in U.S. exports.
Series: We are eating WHAT? (16 Articles, 25928 views)
Friday, April 3, 2009Binghamton and Carthage Shootings Cause More Problems for Gun Lobby Campus killers like Northern Illinois University's Stephen Phillip Kazmierczak and Virginia Tech's Seung-Hui Cho were legal gun owners, after all. So were Wisconsin church-killer Terry Ratzmann and immigrants Sulejman Talovic, the Trolley Square mall killer, Chai Vang, the Wisconsin hunter killer and Bart A. Ross, who killed a Chicago federal judge's family who had no trouble buying guns. Let's enforce existing laws!
Wednesday, May 27, 2015Don't Fall for These Food Front Groups Food front groups sometimes called Astroturf are created by Big Food to keep health and safety regulations from cutting into sales and profits. Monsanto is a big funder
Wednesday, March 25, 2015Bone Drug--Another Wonder Drug That Wasn't The bone drug market opened up for the drug industry 12 years ago when the hormone replacement drugs women were taking to prevent fractures were found to increase their risks of cancer and heart disease. Bisphosphonates like Fosamax and Boniva (the latter, advertised by actress Sally Field) were quickly substituted as a way for women to keep their bones strong and stay young looking.
Thursday, February 3, 2011Pharma's War on Kids Since 2001, high blood pressure meds for kids have risen 17 percent, respiratory meds 42 percent, diabetes meds 150 percent and heartburn/GERD meds 147 percent. Fifty percent of pediatricians also prescribe kids insomnia drugs according to an article in the journal Pediatrics.
Thursday, July 21, 2011Are You Taking Pills You Don't Need? Here Are Some Reasons Why A new unbranded pharma campaign, Depression Is Real, running on radio stations, compares depression to cancer because it kills and diabetes because it doesn't go away.
Wednesday, December 6, 2017Beware These Pharma Dirty Tricks Even during the recession of 2009 with people losing their homes and jobs, Pharma remained the nation's third most profitable sector. Now, with its recent five-digit Hep C drugs and six-digit cancer drugs, it is doing even better. (Though Pharma companies still want to incorporate overseas to dodge U.S. taxes.) How is Pharma able to thrive when other industries are challenged? Here are some of the tricks up its sleeve.
Monday, June 1, 2015Do You Have Binge Eating Disorder? Big Pharma Hopes So More than two thirds of U.S. adults are now overweight and it is fair to say that almost all of them overeat. The average U.S. refrigerator is opened 50 times a day, probably correlated with TV ads
Thursday, January 19, 2012Bone Scan Mania: A 12 Year Drug Industry Con Finally Exposed. It should be embarrassing to the medical establishment and Medicare administrators that the drug industry and its paid celebrities drove the mania for the bone scans, "osteopenia" and bone drugs.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015Please Take Our Bone Drugs Begs Big Pharma! Why are bone drugs that cause fractures still marketed and sold? Why has no one gone to jail?
Tuesday, May 19, 2015White Supremacy Goes To The Very Top Of The NRA White supremacists and hate groups are some of the nation's biggest gun advocates. Like the NRA itself, which calls a registry and universal background checks the first step to a government takeover, they preach insurrection and stockpiling weapons against impending government tyranny
Friday, August 16, 2013Another Side to Gun Extremists--Dick Cheney-Style Thrill Killing The poster child for thrill killing is former Vice President Dick Cheney. The Veep recently got a new heart though many said he never had one to begin with
Tuesday, May 2, 2017Don't Fall for These Pharma Scare Tactics ADHD is not the only way Pharma has medicalized and monetized childhood. Temper tantrums are now called "Disruptive Mood Disregulation Disorder." Thanks to "pediatric psychopharmacology" children are increasingly diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorders, mixed manias, social phobias, bipolar disorders, conduct disorders, depression and "spectrum" disorders.
Sunday, September 14, 2008As Antidepressant Sales Sink Pharma Attacks FDA's Black Boxes Ever since the FDA mandated black boxes on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil in 2004 that warned of suicidal behavior in children and teens--causing sales to drop 25 percent--pharma has been on the war path
Thursday, August 21, 2014Author of New Book Discusses Shame and Codependency Codependents often have trouble being open, honest and assertive with intimate partners says Darlene Lancer, an author and marriage and family therapist. In trying to manage, control and manipulate others, often by "people pleasing" or giving advice, codependents can "turn themselves into pretzels," says Lancer. Now, in her latest book, Conquering Shame and Codependency: 8 Steps to Freeing the True You, Lancer addresses the ro
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