Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register Martha Rosenberg for InfoPages here.
Martha Rosenberg - Latest News [Page 6]
Interview with NYT columnist Gail Collins
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 1:36 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Q: Your new book, When Everything Changed (Little, Brown) covers the cascade of rights women won between 1964 and 1972 from equal pay and the right to their own credit rating to the right to wear pants and to be called by the honorific "MS." ... More >>
Pfizer's Ghostiwritten Journal Articles
Monday, 22 February 2010, 12:59 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Plagiarism, "unethical research" and unreliable findings from "fabricated data" are grounds for retraction of medical journal articles says the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). More >>
Valentine Tips: Drill Bits Are Not Romantic
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 1:54 pm | Martha Rosenberg
A recent poll revealed that while women plan their holiday gifts in advance, men often buy them at the gas station on the way to a family gathering. Other men who resist the gas station, consider the hardware store fertile gift buying territory ... More >>
New York: Dairy Atrocities Provoke New Laws
Monday, 8 February 2010, 12:32 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The video viralled from ABC's World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer, Nightline and CNN to YouTube and social networks. A worker at Willet Dairy, New York's largest dairy repeatedly forces his finger deeply into the eye sockets of calves to hold ... More >>
Bovine Growth Hormone? You'll love Beta Agonists
Monday, 1 February 2010, 1:33 pm | Martha Rosenberg
While researchers and scientists investigate the cause of our diabetes, obesity, asthma and ADHD epidemics, they should ask why the FDA approved a livestock drug banned in 160 nations and responsible for hyperactivity, muscle breakdown and 10 ... More >>
Martha Rosenberg: Holiday Dieting--An Oxymoron
Friday, 22 January 2010, 1:41 pm | Martha Rosenberg
If you over imbibe during the holidays you can fall back on Winston Churchill's famous riposte, "Ah, but tomorrow, I shall be sober." (And you, who accuse me of being drunk, will still look the way you look.) More >>
Before You Take That Antidepressant, Visit Site
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 1:36 pm | Martha Rosenberg
With our national love of drugs, sex, celebrities and violence you'd think SSRIstories.com would be more popular. The 12-year-old web site lists 3,500 crime related news reports linked to the use of SSRI antidepressants with celebrities like Wynona Ryder, Heath ... More >>
"Naughty" Pharma Still Got Xmas Presents From FDA
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 10:56 am | Martha Rosenberg
New Year's Resolutions for the Drug Industry
Sunday, 27 December 2009, 12:05 pm | Martha Rosenberg
There was only one thing worse than being unemployed in 2009: working for the drug sector. Not only did the two biggest drug settlements in US history occur in 2009--Eli Lilly's $1.42 billion for mismarketing Zyprexa and Pfizer's $2.3 billion for Bextra, ... More >>
The Sex Scandal No One Wants To Talk About
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 11:08 am | Martha Rosenberg
Residents from Chicago' s New City neighborhood can be forgiven for not being too relieved that convicted killer/rapist Andrew Crawford is eligible for the death penalty. More >>
Fish Killed, Waterways Poisoned by State Agency
Monday, 7 December 2009, 11:07 am | Martha Rosenberg
It's been a year since the Illinois Department of Natural Resources poisoned all the fish in Lincoln Park's South Pond to "restore" the water body into a "model Illinois freshwater habitat." Most of the world was watching the events a mile away in Grant ... More >>
Brochures Embarrass British Health Service
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 4:22 pm | Martha Rosenberg
"Your medicine is called Olanzapine. Pronounced 'o-lan-za-peen,'" says the lime green kids' brochure for the antipsychotic Zyprexa, published by Britain's National Health Service (NHS). "Many children, teenagers and young people need to take medicines ... More >>
"Pig Hell" at Wal-Mart Pork Supplier
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 11:06 am | Martha Rosenberg
"When he bolted her the first time, she didn't die. She just stood there looking stunned as blood trickled from her forehead. She then got her bearings and tried to turn and run." More >>
Agribusiness Attacks "Omnivore" Michael Pollan
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 12:56 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Even if agribusiness could shut Michael Pollan up, the outspoken author of Omnivore's Dilemma and a journalism professor at University of California, Berkeley, it still has the Los Angeles Times to contend with. Last month, the Times blasted California ... More >>
Think Disease Mongering Started with Consumer Ads?
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 1:31 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The photo looks like John Travolta or Divine playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. Under the bangs of a Dynel doll wig a "floozy" with nasolabial folds, male facial features and leathery skin mugs for the camera--coquettish hair bow, mod sunglasses ... More >>
Dog Fighting Among Toddlers At Day Care Center
Friday, 16 October 2009, 12:04 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Fans on their way to the Eagles/Buccaneers game on Sunday were not happy to see Michael Vick protestors with "Power to the Puppies" and "Stop. Think. Boycott." signs outside Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. More >>
Technician Causes Two Problems for Animal Research
Monday, 5 October 2009, 1:41 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Scratch that $11.2 million underground animal research facility the University of Iowa's interim vice president for research, Jordan Cohen is probably saying to his Board of Regents right about now. A 35,000-square-foot underground vivarium where ... More >>
Fashion Atrocities Not Explained in Vogue Movie
Friday, 25 September 2009, 3:14 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The September Issue, R.J. Cutler's documentary about Vogue editor Anna Wintour, has a lot in common with Martin Scorsese's documentary, Shine a Light, about the Rolling Stones last year--and not just the Byronic visage of Wintour's "Keith Richards," ... More >>
Martha Rosenberg: Eat, Pray, Dine on Veal
Friday, 25 September 2009, 3:08 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Price of Cheap Eggs: Chicks Ground Up Alive
Friday, 4 September 2009, 12:43 pm | Martha Rosenberg
The "food units" cascading down the conveyor in the video are sorted like apples, fine grade, rejects. www.mercyforanimals.org/hatchery Except that the kinetic yellow balls--an undulating fuzzy mass-- are not pears or peppers but newborn chicks. More >>
