Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. April 15, 2008. In lieu of exercise or a healthy diet, Americans now have the option of losing weight with a drug that causes bowel incontinence.
Terry J. Allen, In These Times. March 29, 2008. Our federal agencies have been crippled by conflicts of interest, cronyism, poor leadership, and dispirited staffs.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. January 22, 2008. People are freaked out by the FDA's ruling that cloned meat is safe to eat, but we eat cloned plants all the time.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. January 8, 2008. Former FDA number two is doing what he did best on the FDA -- push for the sale of unsafe drugs on the market.
Frances Cerra Whittelsey, Women's eNews. September 11, 2007. A controversial testosterone patch, touted as a way to boost women's sex drives, is now on the market in Europe. Should the U.S. be next?
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. August 28, 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.
Jim Harkness, TomPaine.com. June 4, 2007. The recent discovery of an industrial chemical in animal feed and pet food imported from China exposes the inherent weakness of an industrial global food system designed to benefit multinational agribusiness companies.
Robert B. Reich, TomPaine.com. May 18, 2007. America's largest corporations' overseas subsidiaries are booming even as their American operations stagnate. General Electric expects more than half its revenue this year to come from outside the U.S. for the first time.
Will Durst, AlterNet. May 3, 2007. Hershey recently petitioned the FDA to legally redefine the term "chocolate" to include artificial sweeteners, milk substitutes and trans fat -- something more like "mockolate."
Richard Blair, AlterNet: PEEK. May 2, 2007. Richard Blair: The FDA is dealing with the potential enormity of the contaminated wheat gluten crisis about as effectively as FEMA dealt with Katrina.
Michelle Chen, The NewStandard. February 9, 2007. Fast-tracked pharmaceuticals are on the market for an average of almost two years without beginning required safety tests, and the FDA is letting it happen.
