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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, February 3, 2018Humor cartoon Republicans on Amtrak Republican lawmakers were on their way to a retreat when an accident happened
Saturday, February 3, 2018"Potty" Ads Work for Pharma Giant AbbVie To sell exocrine pancreatic insufficiency AbbVie has given it the snappy initials EPI----a contrivance which has also helped sell the conditions of ED (erectile dysfunction), Low T (low testosterone), SAD (season affective disorder) and HSDD (hypoactive sexual desire disorder) and the drugs to treat them.
Saturday, January 27, 2018Have You Fallen For Any of these Meat Industry Myths? Just because meat is about as good for you as cigarettes doesn't mean the meat industry is conceding anything. Here are its rebuttals about meat's deleterious effects on health.
Tuesday, January 23, 2018How Wildlife Services Use Our Tax Dollars for Eradication To kill blackbirds, the government even uses caged red-winged blackbirds as decoys to attract wild ones says Audubon magazine, "pre-baiting" an area with unpoisoned food to win the birds' confidence and ensure the most deaths.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018Humor: What Was I thinking? Rationalizations Behind Holiday Overeating After months of salad, sit-ups and running 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.
Saturday, January 13, 2018Trump Is "Healthy" Except for This Hair Drug He Takes Last year, Trump's doctor disclosed that the president takes finasteride, a drug marketed as Propecia to treat male pattern baldness. While it's tempting to make Angry Creamsicle and "small hands" jokes, the dangers of finasteride are well documented.
Sunday, January 7, 2018Book Review Mental Health Inc: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens This excellent new book exposes how "indifferent professional associations, pharmaceutical-subsidized patient advocacy groups and government regulators that either push a drug-industry agenda or fail to halt what amounts to an epidemic of behavioral health malpractice" enable Pharma's worst excesses.
Friday, January 5, 2018Are You Eating Meat With Drug Residues? Factory farming which confines animal "units" to minimal space to save money has been a boon for Animal Pharma. Such "efficiencies" require high use of growth-producing drugs and drugs to treat and prevent diseases caused by crowding, stress, and immobility. Despite the drugs, tragic losses from bird flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus have occurred which Big Food has largely kept hidden from the public.
Saturday, December 30, 2017This Pharma-Funded Group Is Also in Bed With Gun Lobby AFSP volunteers are now told, writes lawyer Erin Dunkerly in the New York Times, they cannot talk about "gun control" and the links between a gun in the home and suicide. Of course, that is like telling people working against drunk driving they can't talk about alcohol.
Thursday, December 21, 2017This week Trump Commuted the Sentence of Meat Tycoon Sholom Rubashkin. Here is the Back Story After the immigration raid, prosecutors asked for a life sentence for the young Sholom Rubashkin, citing his lawlessness and lack of remorse, more than one dozen former US attorneys cried to the judge: Unfair!
Monday, December 18, 2017No, Glenn Close--The Stigma is On People Who Won't Let Pharma Call Them Mentally Ill "Stigma" is the best thing that ever happened to Pharma. It has aggregated and co-opted patients into lobbying groups for high-priced, psychiatric drugs that they often stay on or decades or life
Wednesday, December 13, 2017Birth Control Pills Linked to Breast Cancer--How Could That Happen? While Pharma, the FDA and the medical establishment collectively plead "Who Knew"-- they knew. Almost 50 years ago the breast cancer risks of hormonal birth control pills were exposed by Barbara Seaman in The Doctor's Case Against the Pill and reiterated in her follow-up book The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women.
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.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017Trump Exwives, Daughters Make Fur Great Again It should surprise no one that Donald Trump's greed-is-good 1980's redux includes lavish displays of fur. Images of his fur-clad ex-wives Marla Maples and Ivana Trump keep alive the dated image of the "kept" women in diamonds--as dated as Trump's beauty pageant, grab-their-p*ssy approach to women in general.
Friday, November 24, 2017Pharma'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.
Thursday, November 23, 2017Humor Cartoon: Overserved and Overfed! Moderation? What moderation? Over indulging in food and alcohol officially kicks off with Thanksgiving. After the New Year, gym memberships peak
Saturday, November 18, 2017Yes, Trophy Hunters Really Do These Things This is not the first time the love of trophy killing has gone all the way to the White House. President George H.W. Bush, former Vice-President Dan Quayle and the late Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. were proud members of Safari Club International (SCI)--the bloodthirsty group that sponsored dentist Walter Palmer's murder of Cecil an African lion in the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe in 2015
Wednesday, November 15, 2017Many Back Pain Treatments Help Pharma and Surgeons More Than Patients Clearly the low back pain "biz" is not going away any time soon. Sadly, half of what the U.S. spends on back pain is likely wasted says Steven Brill.
Thursday, November 9, 2017Is the Way Your Meat Was Produced Your Business? It is no surprise that states, with the help of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have been writing "Ag-Gag" bills that criminalize producing, distributing or even possessing photos and video taken without permission at an agricultural facility.
Saturday, November 4, 2017Should 5-Year-Olds "Plink" Squirrels and "Gig" Frogs ? While most of the U.S. is trying to get guns out of the hands of children, hunting groups and state legislatures are trying to put them in. While the nation tries to mentor children academically, hunting groups and state legislatures are trying to mentor them in hunting.
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