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Interview with Psychiatryland Author Phillip Sinaikin, MD
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 10:43 am | 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 ... More >>
Do You Have Depression? Here's a New Reason to Be Scared
Thursday, 16 June 2011, 2:05 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The discovery that many people with life problem or occasional bad moods would willingly dose themselves with antidepressants sailed the drug industry through the 2000s. A good chunk of the $4.5 billion a year direct-to-consumer advertising has been devoted ... More >>
Are You Eating These Metals in Your Meat and Seafood?
Friday, 10 June 2011, 11:45 am | Martha Rosenberg
Over five years ago the Chicago Tribune reported that tuna was unequivocally contaminated with mercury. "The tuna industry has failed to adequately warn consumers about the risks of eating canned tuna, while federal regulators have been reluctant to include ... More >>
Are You Eating These Metals in Your Meat and Seafood?
Tuesday, 7 June 2011, 1:36 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Over five years ago the Chicago Tribune reported that tuna was unequivocally contaminated with mercury. "The tuna industry has failed to adequately warn consumers about the risks of eating canned tuna, while federal regulators have been reluctant to ... More >>
Is Your Sunscreen Doing More Harm Than Good?
Friday, 27 May 2011, 12:03 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Most people have enough fear of skin cancer and photo-aging to give tanning salons wide berth, pun intended. But how safe are sunscreens themselves? Weeks after the New York Times exposed the caprice in assignment of sun protection factors (SPF) ... More >>
Are You Addicted to Caffeine?
Friday, 13 May 2011, 11:43 am | Martha Rosenberg
The 90's had Cheers style bars where everyone knew your name; the 2000's have Starbucks where everyone knows your Venti No Foam No Whip Double Mocha Skim Frappuccino. How did Bucks convince America that Happy Hour should be wired not wasted and that they ... More >>
How Drug Advertising Has Changed Your Life
Monday, 18 April 2011, 12:44 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Can anyone remember life before Ask Your Doctor ads on TV? All you knew about prescription drugs were creepy ads in a JAMA at the doctor's office with a lot of fine print. Even if you knew the name of a drug, you'd never ask your doctor for it because that ... More >>
Owning firearms is supposed to make you safe
Monday, 14 March 2011, 3:08 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's ruling last week that the names of the 1.3 million people with Firearm Owners Identification cards (FOID) in the state is public information has gun owners up in arms, pun intended. More >>
Big Pharma Woos The Little Customer
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 10:27 am | Martha Rosenberg
The patient was overweight and had Type 2 diabetes. He was on Crestor for cholesterol, Atacand for hypertension; the proton pump inhibitor Protonix for GERD (gastro-esophageal reflux disease), Axert for migraines and Singulair for asthma. The patient was eight ... More >>
Tucson Shooter From Long Line of Legal Gun Owner/Murders
Tuesday, 18 January 2011, 2:34 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Some are calling the National Rifle Association's silence on last weekend's shooting of Arizona Representative Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson restraint or respect for the dead. But the NRA's silence after gun massacres is nothing new. More >>
Govt Investigates Blackbird Deaths While Poisoning Them
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 9:48 am | Martha Rosenberg
Do wildlife officials feel just a little hypocritical answering media questions about the New Year's Eve-timted blackbird deaths when they know they kill 200 times that amount a year as "pests"? More >>
Have You Been Fooled by These Pharma Dirty Tricks?
Wednesday, 5 January 2011, 12:27 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Martha Rosenberg Have You Been Fooled by These Pharma Dirty Tricks? How does the pharmaceutical industry get a product through development, testing and approval and onto your insurer's formulary, television set and bathroom shelf? (And Wall Street ... More >>
Martha Rosenberg: Sarah Palin's Snuff Films
Monday, 20 December 2010, 5:07 pm | Martha Rosenberg
On her new TLC live-action show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, Palin bludgeons a gigantic halibut to death and then displays its still-beating heart triumphantly for the at-home television audience writes New York Times' David Firestone. More >>
Are You Taking Any of These Dangerous Drugs?
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 12:46 pm | Martha Rosenberg
There was public outcry against Avandia, the heart attack-associated diabetes drug (and the conflicts of interest that kept it on the market) but some say Actos and Byetta, which will take up some of the slack, are no safer. More >>
Be Like Lindsay Lohan? Yes, When It Comes to Fashion
Friday, 26 November 2010, 11:20 am | Martha Rosenberg
Say what you want about Lindsay Lohan but her desire to sell a line of leggings is absolutely right on. Leggings are as liberating as the "divided skirt" was a hundred years ago that allowed women to first ride bicycles. More >>
Eid Slaughter Sacrifice Is Sad Day for Animals
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 10:26 am | Martha Rosenberg
The lamb having its throat slit didn't want to die. "The animal tried to stand up but couldn't as the ground was slippery," said Christine Hafner of the International Fund For Animals on the Today's Zaman website. More >>
Hugh Hefner: Trailblazer or Chauvinist Pig?
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 7:19 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Looking more like a seasoned Maurice Chevalier or elder statesman than Bathrobe Erectus, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner received a standing ovation at the Gene Siskel Film Center at the screening of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel last week. The movie, ... More >>
Is US Beef At Risk of Mad Cow Disease Again?
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 3:26 pm | Martha Rosenberg
It's been two years since rumors of mad cows in Texas sank cattle futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange when a woman with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), human mad cow disease, was admitted to an Amarillo hospital. More >>
Are Soldier Suicides Caused by Prescription Drugs?
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 3:54 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The suicide rate among US troops is astonishing. In 2009 there were 160 active duty suicides, 239 suicides within the total Army including the Reserves, 146 active duty deaths from drug overdoses and high risk behavior and 1,713 suicide attempts, says ... More >>
New Book Shows Why Alcoholic Self-Help Group Works
Monday, 11 October 2010, 11:07 am | Martha Rosenberg
Hazelden Publishing's new release, The Book That Started it All: The Original Working Manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous , a copy of the 1939 version of Alcoholics Anonymous, shows, through its original edits, that AA's simple steps were far from simple. More >>
