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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.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 15, 2013 Gun-Happy Illinois Officials Take Law into Their Own Hands
Armed citizens like George Zimmerman who killed Trayvon Martin in Florida last year have been accused of vigilante justice--taking the law into their own hands. Now four Illinois state officials are doing the same thing.
(12 comments) SHARE Monday, October 14, 2013 Don't Put Criminals With Guns in Jail Says NRA in Illinois
The NRA is opposing a bill that says if someone is arrested with a gun they're not supposed to have, they go to prison for at least three years. It could "ensnare" people with Illinois' new concealed carry permits who make a mistake about where they can and cannot bring their guns.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Got Antibiotics in Your Food? Thank the FDA
After getting a trough-ful from agribusiness and big pharma, the FDA reversed its ban on antibiotics in the food supply
SHARE Sunday, September 27, 2009 In Bad Times for Ag, Temple Grandin Speaks Out
Grandin, of course is the author of Animals Make Us Human and Animals in Translation and professor of animal science at Colorado State University. She is known for interpreting how the world looks to animals because of the alt perspective from her autism and considered the Ralph Nader of the packing house.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 23, 2011 Should You Take A Psychiatric Drug For Simple Pain?
now, Cymbalta is being promoted as a pain drug of choice like it's not a repurposed antidepressant with antidepressant side effects.
(11 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 1, 2014 US Executions Getting Worse
Increasingly lethal drugs are looking as just cruel as electrocution,
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, November 24, 2017 Pharma's Best Salespeople? Patients Who "Kill the Messenger"
"Prince was not addicted to pain medication. Prince had a medical condition -- chronic pain --which is criminally under-treated.... Physical dependence is not addiction." So reads one of many articles that defend opioids and blame their restrictions for the nation's opioid crisis.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 22, 2010 Is Meat and Milk From Clones in the Food Supply?
When Canadian agricultural leaders asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack last week after a scandal about unlabeled clone products in Europe if "cloned cows or their offspring have made it into the North American food supply," he said, "I can't say today that I can answer your question in an affirmative or negative way. I don't know."
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 2, 2013 Why Are Suicides Climbing in the Military? Let's Look at the Drugs Being Prescribed
Several powerful military psychiatrists and administrators are also consultants to Big Pharma who shamelessly enroll veterans in drug studies and promote the pills that drug companies pay them to promote. Who can say conflict of interest?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 10, 2016 Breaking News: Walgreens Partners With Pharma To Churn Drugs
Just as the public is digesting the fact that former chairman and CEO of drug giant Genentech, Art Levinson, is now the CEO of a new Google life sciences venture with Big Pharma and that he also serves as chairman of Apple Inc., there are more insidious "partnerships" between Pharma and top corporations. Walgreens has now announced a "partnership" with Mental Health America, an advocacy group so steeped in Pharma money, it was
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 26, 2017 How Pharma Got a Quarter of the Population on Antidepressants
The weight gain, sexual dysfunction and bone thinning/fractures linked to antidepressants have been well publicized. But a 2010 JAMA article suggested that in most cases antidepressants don't even work Series: Pharma (7 Articles, 13113 views)
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 9, 2014 Military Suicides Not Caused By Pharma Drugs Say Pharma-funded Military Consultants
if you're looking for names of the Pharma companies who've created the most drugged up fighting force in history, you'll have to look at the conflicts of interest of the authors of the research, which appeared in JAMA Psychiatry in March.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 8, 2015 Cartoon --Foie Gras is Back on Menu
There is not enough cruelty in the world? We have to do this to animals for a "delicacy"?