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

Posted on: Feb 26, 2008, Source: AlterNet

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 19, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Buyouts, incompetent leadership, and a lack of reader support have all but destroyed Chicago's newspaper industry.

Posted on: Jan 29, 2008, Source: AlterNet

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 15, 2008, Source: AlterNet

The NRA is reviving its campaign to prohibit businesses from forbidding employees from keeping firearms in their cars.

Posted on: Jan 8, 2008, Source: AlterNet

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: Dec 7, 2007, Source: AlterNet

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: Nov 13, 2007, Source: AlterNet

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: Aug 28, 2007, Source: AlterNet

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: Jun 4, 2007, Source: AlterNet

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: Dec 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet

This year's follies by the famous can be blamed on a host of evil twins.

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