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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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Thursday, June 26, 2025Could The US Draft Return? To sell drugs, drugmakers floated the factoid more than ten years ago that one in four Americans is "mentally ill" and mass media, mainstream medicine and government agencies have picked up the lucrative cudgel
Wednesday, June 18, 2025Are You Eating These Food Chemicals? The breadth of livestock diseases and drugs routinely given to food animals could kill people's appetites, especially if the information were included on food labels or included in mainstream news reports.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025Making Money Off Women's Bodies Pharma's top revenue streams include kids with ADHD (remaining on drugs until adulthood), people "living with mental illness," the obese and diabetic, those "at risk" of cardiovascular disease who will take statins and women.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025SSRIs Antidepressants--Invaluable or Band-Aids? Two Doctors Disagree So many US doctors receive drugmaker funding for speeches and research, an FDA Commissioner once lamented the agency couldn't find unaffiliated doctors for drug approval committees.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025"Recommend 'Heaven@' To Your Followers?" How Social Media Devoured Itself Social media has devolved from its original promise of an online identity and the chance to find like-minded peers and express an opinion to what is sometimes an opportunist and capitalistic monster
Thursday, May 1, 2025The "Eating Disorder" That No One Talks About "The most common eating disorders are anorexia, bulimia and binge-eating disorder," says the Mayo Clinic. If you have an eating disorder, "you may count calories or limit how much and what types of foods you eat." You may "throw up after eating," echoes the Cleveland Clinic
Saturday, April 19, 2025Mink Farmers Snivel Over Possible Legislation A bill in the Illinois legislature has mink farmers as nervous as their minks. The law is meant to address the well documented role of minks in zoonotic pandemics like Covid and the ongoing bird flu (H5N1) and would disclose locations.
Thursday, April 10, 2025To Sell Drugs, Big Pharma Embraces Woke Euphemisms In the richest country in the world people want to be sick thanks to Pharma. Would-be activists now believe they are "living with"conditions barely acknowledged a few years ago
Wednesday, April 9, 2025Cartoons About Man's Best Friend Most of us love dogs even though they sometimes see us at our worst
Thursday, March 27, 2025Six Trends This Reporter Hates How many times have you begun to read an article about fatigue or high blood pressure or insomnia or obesity and suddenly it segues into the "surprising" fact that a supplement or diet is your answer?
Saturday, March 22, 2025Here The Right-To-Life and Animal Rights Movements Agree It has been said you cannot make someone see something when their paycheck depends on not seeing it. The corollary is you can't make someone see something when their appetite or lifestyle is dependent on it.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025If Obesity Is a Disease..So Is Smoking! There is so much money in the new fat drugs that compounding pharmacies are suing drugmakers and vice verse while bariatric surgeons fume over lost business.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025Thoughts and Warnings On Fat Tuesday from a Former Local First of all, Fat Tuesday revelry ends promptly at midnight not when the sun comes up on Ash Wednesday. It is a religious holiday preceding Lent. Many Yankees wish they knew this after police interventions.
Sunday, March 2, 2025Are State Departments of Natural Resources Next on the Cutting Block? Thanks to Trump administration budget cuts at the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of Education, the National Parks Service, proposed cuts at the National Institutes of Health and more, "Who will they come for next?" has become a refrain--especially from those with affected jobs.
Friday, February 14, 20258 Reasons to Fear the Revival of Bone Drugs: Fool Us Twice? Drugmakers are reviving the marketing of anti-fracture bone drugs for the same reason they are reviving the "disease" of menopause: A new generation of women is unaware of previous harms and can be tapped.
Thursday, February 6, 2025Humor--Going to Super Bowl or Mardi Gras? Take These Tips When a Yankee tries to fit in during a trip to New Orleans, the first bump you will encounter is the use of "yall." It is ubiquitous, obligatory and its absence quickly identifies you as a non-local.
Thursday, January 23, 2025Confessions of a Radio Producer Like podcasts and websites, radio would not exist without sponsors. Yet when ads become obnoxious, insulting or too frequent""who remembers "it slices, it dices:?--they can turn listeners against the content more than the content itself.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025Corporate Cannibalism: Giants Clash Over Their Profits Has anyone wondered what the GLP-1 agonist fat drugs are doing to Big Food profits? After all, the major reason Americans are gigantic is Big Food ingredients, marketing and availability. (Need proof? Look at photos of Americans 20 years ago""they had cheekbones, waistlines and could walk not waddle.)
Sunday, January 12, 2025Is a Conservative Just A Liberal Who Was Mugged Yesterday? Is a Conservative Just A Liberal Who Was Mugged Yesterday? Or liberal just a conservative who was discriminated against yesterday?
Thursday, January 9, 2025How Drugmakers Got a Quarter of US Women On Antidepressants A funny thing happened when drugmaker-funded "experts" began writing the "DSM." Your anxiety was "really" depression even though you felt fine. Your anxiety was a symptom of an underlying "depression" and you should replace your anxiety drug--which you took twice a year--with a drug you took every day
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