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Animal Experimentation Funny? Researcher Says Yes
Friday, 8 October 2010, 7:15 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Animal researchers usually try to display some respect for the animals they experiment on. They may do things they don't want you to know about to animals and install elaborate security measures just to be sure, but they usually say they honor the animal's sacrifice ... More >>
US Govt Hearings Go Swimmingly for GM Salmon
Monday, 27 September 2010, 6:06 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Even though the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held hearings about how AquAdvantage Salmon should be labeled the day after hearings about if it should be approved this week, it said it has not decided yet about the genetically engineered fish. More >>
Is Female Sexual Dysfunction the Next Big Disease?
Friday, 24 September 2010, 9:11 pm | Martha Rosenberg
You write in your new book Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals that alongside Viagra, Sex and the City and the media sexualization of girl children is a paradoxical sexual insecurity and that Big Pharma exploits this anxiety, transforming common sexual ... More >>
Is Meat and Milk From Clones Really Safe?
Thursday, 2 September 2010, 2:37 pm | Martha Rosenberg
It's just a matter of time before the US is eating clones, if it is not eating them now. When Canadian agricultural leaders asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this month after a scandal about unlabeled clone products in Europe if "cloned cows or ... More >>
Quiting Drinking Without Quitting Drinking?
Saturday, 21 August 2010, 2:04 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Many adult drinkers after losing their jobs, marriages and drivers licenses are faced with the disturbing news: they will never drink again. They have an "allergy" to alcohol that makes them lose wallets and contact lenses, knee-walk (usually to the ... More >>
Martha Rosenberg: The Passing of John Callahan
Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 2:59 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The year was 1989. Millions of wheelchair-users were about to be recognized for the first time by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Millions of other Americans had come out of "family abuse" closets to join Adult Children of Alcoholics 12-step groups. ... More >>
Men's Sex Problems Growing - At Least on the Radio
Friday, 30 July 2010, 11:28 am | Martha Rosenberg
Men: do you want to be bigger and thicker where it counts ? Would you like a longer, more powerful sexual experience? And speaking of you know what, are you standing over the toilet waiting for your flow? Waking up in the middle of the night to urinate? ... More >>
Do You Have Pet Shame? Car Shame? Join the Crowd
Monday, 5 July 2010, 8:10 pm | Martha Rosenberg
They say the opposite of shame is pride or honor but most people -- and most countries -- have a lot more of the former than the latter. While a lot of personal shame centers around age, income and weight, especially when they're going in the wrong direction, ... More >>
Jack DeCoster Agrees to Cruelty Plea
Monday, 5 July 2010, 1:13 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The Iowa attorney general called him a "habitual violator" of state laws. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich called his farms "atrocious." A federal investigator said it was "inconceivable" he didn't know his farms' conditions. But appearances ... More >>
Book Review: Has Psychiatry Become Unhinged?
Thursday, 17 June 2010, 12:32 am | Martha Rosenberg
At a press briefing at the American Psychiatric Association meeting in May in which new research about olfactory reference syndrome (people who think they smell) and links between depression and allergens was presented, a reporter's pointed question ... More >>
Will You Take An Immune Drug To Prevent Fractures?
Friday, 11 June 2010, 6:27 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Monkeys developed tooth and jaw abscesses and two died of protozoal infections. Human subjects developed cervical, ovarian, pancreatic, gastric and thyroid cancers and breast cancer "was the most common adverse event that led to discontinuation" in ... More >>
No Free Pens But Pharma Influence Still Felt
Monday, 31 May 2010, 11:34 am | Martha Rosenberg
New Orleans It was 95 degrees with 99 percent humidity. The Gulf had the biggest oil spill in US history. And attendees to this week's American Psychiatric Convention (APA) annual meeting in New Orleans had to brave 200 protestors chanting "no drugging ... More >>
US Govt Report Finds Dangerous Residues in Meat
Thursday, 20 May 2010, 8:01 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Many food consumers worry about pathogens like E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria in their meat. But according to a new government report, they should worry more about veterinary drugs, pesticides and heavy metals in their food. A new Office of Inspector ... More >>
Do You Have Excessive Sleepiness? Pharma Hopes So
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 5:40 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Do you work in customer service? Health care? The restaurant industry? You might be suffering from shift work sleep disorder (SWSD) says a new ad campaign from Frazer, PA-based Cephalon who makes the Schedule IV stimulants Provigil and Nuvigil. One ... More >>
Too Guilty to Have a Cleaning Lady?
Saturday, 1 May 2010, 11:42 am | Martha Rosenberg
Even though cleaning is an early, almost sacred gender ritual we learn from Mom, like sons learn to throw, women hate it. We say we're too busy, our family's too sloppy and no one helps, cleaning products are toxic, the house just gets messy again ... More >>
Are You a Victim of Farming's Drug Problem?
Friday, 16 April 2010, 12:40 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The 2000s were go-go years for the microbe sector. E. coli, Campylobacter, Salmonella and Listeria flourished in the food supply; S. aureus, S. pneumoniae and C. difficile gained footholds in hospitals and the community and Acinetobacter got all the way ... More >>
Martha Rosenberg: Price of Cheap Easter Eggs?
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 4:27 pm | Martha Rosenberg
250,000 hens at Ohio Fresh Eggs in Harpster died when firefighters "cut power to the chicken barns and ventilation systems to keep the flames from spreading," say news reports. More >>
Ex Shark Hunter Turns to Animal Protection
Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 3:36 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Rosenberg: Here in Chicago, you are known as the "Wild Man" who staged alternative whale shows with inflatable orcas outside the Shedd Aquarium in the 1990s and who went to jail for disrupting a bird shoot with a powered paraglider. Now, both issues ... More >>
Rabbit--It's What's For Dinner
Monday, 15 March 2010, 1:13 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Not everyone cottoned to the rabbit-for-dinner piece in the New York Times' dining section this month, pun intended. More >>
Should Women Take Hormone Therapy?
Monday, 8 March 2010, 11:50 am | Martha Rosenberg
Rosenberg: The Women's Heath Initiative findings about hormone therapy (HT) were definitive enough that both the estrogen and estrogen plus progestin arms of the study were terminated. Yet claims of heart and memory benefits for women, if HT is ... More >>
