Stories by Martha Rosenberg

Martha Rosenberg is an investigative health reporter and the author of Born With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health (Prometheus Books). subscribe to Martha Rosenberg's feed

New Cosmetic Has Dangerous Side-Effects -- Why Do People Use It?

Posted on: Apr 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Despite the Maybelline close-ups, Allergan's new drug Lattise is not mascara, but a glaucoma drug repurposed as an eyelash grower. And its side-effects are frightening.

Women Reported Fractures Caused by Bone Drug Long Before Health Industry

Posted on: Mar 19, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Fosamax users were flooding message boards with complaints months before mainstream media picked up the story. What's wrong with this picture?

The Dangers of Hormone Therapy: Why Is It Still Prescribed?

Posted on: Mar 7, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Martha Rosenberg and Rowan Chlebowski, a lead investigator of the Women's Health Initiative, talk about why doctors still promote hormone therapy despite its health risks.

Are Veterans Being Given Deadly Cocktails to Treat PTSD?

Posted on: Mar 5, 2010, Source: AlterNet

A potentially deadly drug manufactured by pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has been linked to the deaths of soldiers returning from war. Yet the FDA continues to approve it.

When Everything Changed: The Impact of the Women's Movement

Posted on: Feb 28, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Martha Rosenberg and NYT columnist Gail Collins talk about why second wave feminism was necessary 50 years after women won the vote.

Why Has the FDA Allowed a Drug Marked 'Not Safe for Use in Humans' to Be Fed to Livestock Right Before Slaughter?

Posted on: Feb 2, 2010, Source: CounterPunch

There's a good chance you may be eating a livestock drug banned in 160 nations.

Undercover Footage Reveals Shocking Conditions at a NY Dairy

Posted on: Jan 27, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Undercover video shot at New York State's largest dairy depicts extensive abuse and horrific conditions for dairy cows.

The Overuse of Antibiotics in Livestock Feed Is Killing Us

Posted on: Jan 25, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Over 70,000 Americans die each year because of antibiotic resistance, thanks to the overuse of antibiotics in medical treatments, factory farming and soaps.

The Recession Is Taking a Bite Out of Meat Consumption

Posted on: Dec 1, 2009, Source: AlterNet

More than half of Americans have cut back on meat. Martha Stewart broadcasts a meatless Thanksgiving show. What gives?

What's So Scary About Michael Pollan? Why Corporate Agriculture Tried to Censor His University Speech

Posted on: Oct 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Agribusiness is trying to combat Pollan's message of sustainable, healthy eating.

Dog-Fighting Ring Allegedly Operated Out of Home that Doubles as a Day-Care Center

Posted on: Oct 18, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Reports of a dog-fighting ring operating out of a home that houses a day-care center were bad enough. Then, a cell-phone video showed a dog burned alive.

Video: Chicks Ground Up Alive to Bring You Cheap Eggs

Posted on: Sep 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet

What's an egg hatchery to do with useless male chicks? It grinds them up alive.

FDA Approved Drugs Despite Fraudlent Testing

Posted on: Jun 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet

A major allergy and respiratory management company knowingly produced flawed clinical trials of FDA approved drugs currently on the market.

What's Behind the Epidemic of Family-Killings? Could it Be Anti-Depressants?

Posted on: Apr 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Economic stress is usually blamed, but a bunch of government-approved psychoactive drugs have proven homicidal and suicidal side effects.

How Big Pharma Distorts Science to Get FDA Approval for Dangerous Drugs

Posted on: Apr 20, 2009, Source: AlterNet

How does Big Pharma keep getting dangerous drugs approved? Through the best articles and spokesmen money can buy.

The Gun Lobby Asks You to Please Lay Off the Mass Killings While It's Trying to Influence Legislation

Posted on: Mar 25, 2009, Source: AlterNet

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.

A Big Pharma Merger Made in Hell

Posted on: Mar 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet

This week's merger of Merck and Schering-Plough seems another example of throwing bad money after bad.

Vet School Defends Live Dog Labs

Posted on: Mar 4, 2009, Source: AlterNet

It's not often that vets are required to say "I love animals."

Big Pharma Is Spending Big Bucks Hoping That You Have Fibromyalgia

Posted on: Feb 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Pfizer is planting fake medical articles and issuing unbranded "PSAs" to push pills? Again? Say it ain't so.

Pharma Giant Looking for New Diseases to Treat with Drug Linked to Suicide

Posted on: Feb 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Finding new diseases to justify a drug's existence is the normal way pharma operates.

Free Antibiotics -- in U.S. Food and Water

Posted on: Feb 11, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The FDA has quietly revoked a ban on the routine dosing of farm animals with antibiotics.

Big Pharma Gone Wild

Posted on: Feb 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet

How Risperdal, a drug meant for treating rare psychiatric disorders, became the seventh best-selling medicine in the world.

Media Trumpet Dangerous Heart Drug

Posted on: Dec 17, 2008, Source: AlterNet

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.

Health Experts Make a Perverse Push for Fat-Rich, Red Meat Diets

Posted on: Dec 9, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Most dietitians say people already have too much protein in their diets. So why is increased meat consumption being promoted in medical journals?

How Sarah Palin Created a Whole New Generation of Vegetarians

Posted on: Nov 26, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Unlike Alaska's governor, most Americans don't want to see the transformations their turkey went through to get to their Thanksgiving dinner table.

States Taking Pharma to Court for Risky Antipsychotic-Prescribing Spree

Posted on: Oct 18, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Certain antipsychotics are leaving legions of children and elderly in chemical straightjackets for treatment of conditions they didn't even have.

Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Humira Linked to Psoriasis, Herpes, Possibly Cancer

Posted on: Sep 18, 2008, Source: AlterNet

In six years, Abbott Laboratories' Humira has gone from wonder drug to wonder-how-it-got-approved drug.

Can Exercise Come in a Pill?

Posted on: Aug 13, 2008, Source: AlterNet

A new drug works at the genetic level to change metabolism. But how effective is it? And is it safe?

Media Hyping Viagra for Women for Drug Company Greed

Posted on: Jul 30, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Drugmaker Pfizer is claiming a new use for Viagra, which would conveniently treat the side effects of one of its other drugs.

Big Pharma Pushes Drugs That Cause Conditions They Are Supposed to Prevent

Posted on: Jul 23, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Yet again, women are the industry's main targets.

Will Women Give Hormone Maker A Second Chance?

Posted on: Jun 24, 2008, Source: AlterNet

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.

Could New FDA Rules Curb Drug Profiteering?

Posted on: Jun 10, 2008, Source: AlterNet

A GAO investigation has one drug industry insider squirming.

South Koreans More Concerned About American Beef Safety Than Americans Are

Posted on: May 26, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Many in South Korea are saying, "You want us to import WHAT"?

Has Merck Learned Anything from Vioxx and Vytorin?

Posted on: May 22, 2008, Source: AlterNet

It's getting tough to find any Merck drug that can hold up to scrutiny.

The Suicide Drug

Posted on: Apr 28, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Drug company spin does not change the fact that Cymbalta has been linked to suicide -- even in otherwise mentally healthy people.

Cheney Hunting Adventures: If Someone Eats the Game, It Looks Less Like Killing

Posted on: Apr 23, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Cheney and members of "Sportsmen Against Hunger" are attaching themselves to charitable causes to put a positive spin on killing animals.

The Diarrhea Diet

Posted on: Apr 15, 2008, Source: AlterNet

In lieu of exercise or a healthy diet, Americans now have the option of losing weight with a drug that causes bowel incontinence.

Premarin and Prempro Heyday Finally Over

Posted on: Mar 16, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Juries and medical journals are making hormone replacement therapy-mongering increasingly difficult for drug giant Wyeth.

Beset by Regulatory Problems in U.S., Tyson Foods Eyes Market in China

Posted on: Mar 11, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Tyson's long history of health violations is catching up with it. Now the company intends to take its dirty practices overseas.

Who's to Blame for the Biggest Meat Recall in U.S. History?

Posted on: Mar 3, 2008, Source: AlterNet

The USDA is in endless denial.

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