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Has Drug Industry Grip On Health Care Become a Pharmageddon?
Friday, 22 June 2012, 10:10 am | Martha Rosenberg
Your new book, Pharmageddon, gives a bleak picture of the doctored data, skewed drug trials and rigged treatment guidelines that characterize today's pharmaceutical industry. Many people will be shocked to learn the abuses are not limited to the US, where ... More >>
Diseases Grow at Psychiatry Meeting--Thanks to Big Pharma
Monday, 28 May 2012, 1:16 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The first week in May brought a new leader in France and new prospects for US same sex couples seeking marriage. But at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Philadelphia, attended by 11,000 psychiatrists, it was the same old same ... More >>
The U.S.' Fourth Mad Cow
Thursday, 26 April 2012, 1:08 pm | Martha Rosenberg
News of a new "mad cow" in the United States could not come at a worse time. The U.S. is in the process of trying to win back Japan and China's business, not fully restored since the first U.S. mad cow, discovered in 2003. More >>
Part II--Milk for PMS and Weight Loss--More Failed Marketing
Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 10:02 am | Martha Rosenberg
In 2005, milk marketers tried to widen the demographic by positioning milk as a cure for premenstrual syndrome, commonly called PMS. TV ads showing bumbling boyfriends and husbands rushing to the store for milk to detoxify their stricken women. More >>
U.S. "Got Milk" Ads Have History of False Claims
Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 10:41 am | Martha Rosenberg
Selling milk looks easy and even fun when you see the celebrity "milk mustache" ads in the United States. "Got Milk?" ads may be the most recognizable and spoofed of all ad campaigns but they are probably also the least successful: milk sales have ... More >>
Martha Rosenberg: The Big Pharma Bubble
Thursday, 22 March 2012, 9:14 am | Martha Rosenberg
After the Housing Bubble, Get Ready for the Big Pharma Bubble By Martha Rosenberg March 9, 2012 It is no consolation to the roughly one out of 600 families who lost their homes in the U.S. but Wall Street made a lot of money slicing and dicing mortgages ... More >>
Are Your Sleeping Pills Doing More Harm Than Good?
Monday, 12 March 2012, 11:37 am | Martha Rosenberg
As the industrialized world increasingly relies on sleeping pills, new information this week suggests they may not be as safe as thought. Drugs like Ambien, Lunesta and Sonata, older drugs like Valium and barbiturates and even sedative antihistamines ... More >>
Were Bone Scans Bone Scams?
Friday, 24 February 2012, 10:12 am | Martha Rosenberg
Women are in such danger of osteoporosis they need regular bone scans. That was conventional medical "wisdom" since the first lucrative bone drug surfaced over a decade ago. But a recent article in New England Journal of Medicine reveals that the warnings ... More >>
FDA Critic Stripped of Voting Rights
Thursday, 5 January 2012, 1:41 pm | Martha Rosenberg
It's said that it takes 22 FDA safety officers to change a light bulb: 12 to defend the decision to install it, 8 to call it another "lighting option," 6 to quote Big Pharma studies and one to say it doesn't need changing, it just needs a better label. ... More >>
Seven Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012
Monday, 12 December 2011, 11:02 am | Martha Rosenberg
How did Pharma get a good third of the US taking antidepressants, statins and Purple Pills, albeit at low prices? By selling the diseases of depression, high cholesterol and gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD! Supply-driven marketing, also known ... More >>
Seven Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012
Monday, 12 December 2011, 9:30 am | Martha Rosenberg
It used to be joked that a consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is. These days, the opportunist is Big Pharma which raises your insurance premiums and taxes while providing you "low priced" drugs that you paid ... More >>
Few in U.S. Realize Drugs Used in Thanksgiving Turkeys
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 10:25 am | Martha Rosenberg
So far, 2011 has not been a great year for US turkey producers. In May, an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that half of U.S. meat from major grocery chains--turkey, beef, chicken and pork--harbors antibiotic resistant staph germs ... More >>
Are You Taking These Asthma Drugs?
Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 1:39 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Big Pharma has been accused of selling drugs that are so dangerous they cause death and drugs that cause the exact conditions they're supposed to treat. The popular asthma drugs Symbicort, Advair Diskus, Serevent Diskus, Dulera and Foradil do both ... More >>
Blockbuster US Drug Causes Cancer, TB and Lethal Infections
Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 1:10 pm | Martha Rosenberg
How did Abbott Laboratories' Humira become an $8 billion a year drug, capable of anchoring an entirely new drug company as Abbott splits into two? How did it become a blockbuster even though such drugs (which include Remicade, Enbrel and Cimzia and ... More >>
Perry's N-gate Reminiscent of Cheney's RacismCharged Hunting
Monday, 10 October 2011, 1:13 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The flap over the racist name of the hunting lodge that Texas Governor Rick Perry's family leased is not the first time hunting and racism have conspired to tar a politician. More >>
Was Perry Wrong to Push HPV Vaccine?
Friday, 16 September 2011, 3:45 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Whether you are against politicians helping Pharma loot our health care dollars or mandatory medicine, Texas Governor Rick Perry's facilitation of Merck's Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, has angered Repubicans and Democrats alike. More >>
Worse Than a Low Paying Job, Low Paying Job with Dress Code
Thursday, 4 August 2011, 11:30 am | Martha Rosenberg
"They Pretend to Pay Us and We Pretend to Work" used to be attributed to the employment situation in the former Soviet Union. But in today's "jobless recovery," US workers are also performing low-wage jobs with no benefits, future and, sometimes, purpose. ... More >>
Your Brain on PMS
Thursday, 4 August 2011, 11:27 am | Martha Rosenberg
It is said that women's periods are a lot like airline meals. We hate them, we complain about them, we dread them--but just let the flight attendant try to skip you! Not all women have bad things to say about PMS but only the good thing anyone has to ... More >>
The 10 Worst Kinds of Employers to Work For
Thursday, 4 August 2011, 11:26 am | Martha Rosenberg
As that the economy is bounces back, there is good and bad news. The good news: Companies are hiring. The bad news: The same ones you didn't want to work for before, you still don't want to work for. And they are recruiting! Watch out for these 10 dead-end ... More >>
Interview with Psychiatryland Author Phillip Sinaikin, MD
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 2:24 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Phillip Sinaikin, MD, is a Florida psychiatrist who has been in practice for 25 years. Author of "Get Smart About Weight Control" and co-author of "Fat Madness: How to Stop the Diet Cycle and Achieve Permanent Well-Being," his new book focuses on excesses ... More >>
