Stories by Martha Rosenberg
Martha Rosenberg is a columnist and cartoonist who frequently writes about the impact of the pharmaceutical, food and gun industries on public health. A former medical copywriter, her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, as well as on the BBC and in the original National Lampoon.
A major allergy and respiratory management company knowingly produced flawed clinical trials of FDA approved drugs currently on the market.
Posted on Jun 10, 2009
Economic stress is usually blamed, but a bunch of government-approved psychoactive drugs have proven homicidal and suicidal side effects.
Posted on May 1, 2009
How does Big Pharma keep getting dangerous drugs approved? Through the best articles and spokesmen money can buy.
Posted on Apr 20, 2009
In a month filled with tragic shootings, lawmakers are not thinking of gun owners as an oppressed minority. But the NRA is hoping to change that.
Posted on Mar 26, 2009
This week's merger of Merck and Schering-Plough seems another example of throwing bad money after bad.
Posted on Mar 13, 2009
It's not often that vets are required to say "I love animals."
Posted on Mar 4, 2009
Pfizer is planting fake medical articles and issuing unbranded "PSAs" to push pills? Again? Say it ain't so.
Posted on Feb 28, 2009
Finding new diseases to justify a drug's existence is the normal way pharma operates.
Posted on Feb 17, 2009
The FDA has quietly revoked a ban on the routine dosing of farm animals with antibiotics.
Posted on Feb 11, 2009
How Risperdal, a drug meant for treating rare psychiatric disorders, became the seventh best-selling medicine in the world.
Posted on Feb 3, 2009
Crestor has been named one of the top five most dangerous drugs by the FDA. Yet it's being sold as immortality in a bottle.
Posted on Dec 17, 2008
Most dietitians say people already have too much protein in their diets. So why is increased meat consumption being promoted in medical journals?
Posted on Dec 9, 2008
Unlike Alaska's governor, most Americans don't want to see the transformations their turkey went through to get to their Thanksgiving dinner table.
Posted on Nov 27, 2008
Certain antipsychotics are leaving legions of children and elderly in chemical straightjackets for treatment of conditions they didn't even have.
Posted on Oct 19, 2008
In six years, Abbott Laboratories' Humira has gone from wonder drug to wonder-how-it-got-approved drug.
Posted on Sep 18, 2008
A new drug works at the genetic level to change metabolism. But how effective is it? And is it safe?
Posted on Aug 14, 2008
Drugmaker Pfizer is claiming a new use for Viagra, which would conveniently treat the side effects of one of its other drugs.
Posted on Jul 31, 2008
Yet again, women are the industry's main targets.
Posted on Jul 24, 2008
A new menopause drug is on the market. But don't expect women and physicians to be the easy customers they were back in the Premarin days.
Posted on Jun 24, 2008
A GAO investigation has one drug industry insider squirming.
Posted on Jun 10, 2008
Many in South Korea are saying, "You want us to import WHAT"?
Posted on May 26, 2008
It's getting tough to find any Merck drug that can hold up to scrutiny.
Posted on May 22, 2008
Drug company spin does not change the fact that Cymbalta has been linked to suicide -- even in otherwise mentally healthy people.
Posted on Apr 28, 2008
Cheney and members of "Sportsmen Against Hunger" are attaching themselves to charitable causes to put a positive spin on killing animals.
Posted on Apr 24, 2008
In lieu of exercise or a healthy diet, Americans now have the option of losing weight with a drug that causes bowel incontinence.
Posted on Apr 15, 2008
Juries and medical journals are making hormone replacement therapy-mongering increasingly difficult for drug giant Wyeth.
Posted on Mar 16, 2008
Tyson's long history of health violations is catching up with it. Now the company intends to take its dirty practices overseas.
Posted on Mar 11, 2008
The USDA is in endless denial.
Posted on Mar 3, 2008
Selling a product that causes cancer isn't easy, but with help from a U.S. endocrinologist group, Wyeth is again obscuring the truth about HRT.
Posted on Feb 26, 2008
Buyouts, incompetent leadership, and a lack of reader support have all but destroyed Chicago's newspaper industry.
Posted on Feb 20, 2008
The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology told patients to stay on the drug despite a recent damning study.
Posted on Jan 29, 2008
The NRA is reviving its campaign to prohibit businesses from forbidding employees from keeping firearms in their cars.
Posted on Jan 16, 2008
Former FDA number two is doing what he did best on the FDA -- push for the sale of unsafe drugs on the market.
Posted on Jan 8, 2008
Here's a rundown of whom we can thank for the national pathology of creating and treating diseases that aren't even there.
Posted on Dec 7, 2007
Dick Cheney just spent a day shooting up pen-raised birds. Some hunters liken the sport -- killing tame animals that offer no resistance -- to having sex with a blow-up doll.
Posted on Nov 14, 2007
Ninety-two percent of FDA advisory meetings in the last decade included a member with financial ties to drug companies. A look at how that affects the drugs that are allowed on the market -- even after they're shown to be deadly.
Posted on Aug 28, 2007
The Federal Trade Commission has asked the dairy industry to remove its "Milk Your Diet" ads after research failed to support claims that milk can help people lose weight.
Posted on Jun 5, 2007
This year's follies by the famous can be blamed on a host of evil twins.
Posted on Dec 28, 2006
