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Resistant Microbes Disclosed at Science Meeting
Monday, 2 March 2009, 8:28 am | Martha Rosenberg
Chicago, IL Global warming and our "absurd over-dependence on carbon-based fuels" is interconnected with the looming economic and national security crises said former US Vice President Al Gore to an overflow audience at the American Association for ... More >>
Suicide-Linked Pain Drug May Be Right For You!
Monday, 23 February 2009, 12:17 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Many are outraged that Eli Lilly gave nonprofits $3.9 million in grants last year for medical courses to "educate" doctors about the pain-and-fatigue ailment fibromyalgia--more than it spent for diabetes and Alzheimer's which people already know they have. More >>
Do You Have Fibromyalgia? Drug Company Hopes So.
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 10:56 am | Martha Rosenberg
Even as new reports surface about fake medical articles Pfizer planted to sell seizure drug Neurontin for unapproved uses from 1995 to 2002, it looks like deja vu all over again. More >>
M. Rosenberg: Drug Dealing Furrier Is No Surprise
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 10:53 am | Martha Rosenberg
Chicago, IL: The news that top Chicago furrier Sohrab Tebyanian, 62, was laundering drug money through his stores and ghost paying employees who did no real work does not surprise Chicago animal advocates. More >>
Single Mums GUILTY of Raising Kids like Clinton
Saturday, 24 January 2009, 4:55 pm | Martha Rosenberg
In 1992 they told the joke that if the world ended the New York Times would say World to End, the Wall Street Journal would say World to End; Markets Close Early and the Washington Post would say World to End; Women and Children Hurt Worst. More >>
Mysterious Pork Disease Persists in Plant Workers
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 9:48 am | Martha Rosenberg
The head tables are gone at Quality Pork Producers (QPP) in Austin, MN, Indiana Packers Corp. in Delphi, IN, and Hormel Foods Corp. in Fremont, NE. More >>
Will Fosamax be Vioxx all over again?
Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 11:23 am | Martha Rosenberg
1999 was a good year for Merck. In its 64 page annual report it predicted arthritis medicine Vioxx--Our Biggest, Fastest and Best Launch Ever!--would prevent Alzheimer's disease and colon cancer. More >>
Condi Rice's Legacy and the "Creep" Factor
Sunday, 28 December 2008, 1:29 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Condoleezza Rice finally lost her temper. When Michele Keleman from National Public Radio asked the outgoing Secretary of State if Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe's discussion of human rights at the UN made it more difficult for her to talk about human rights, ... More >>
Can Department Store Santas Get Any Respect?
Tuesday, 23 December 2008, 12:02 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Whitney Houston is singing, "Hark! Are the Bells; Sweet Silver Bells," on the boom box. Two Christmas trees bow with oversized red globes, pyramids of beckoning but empty gifts on their skirts. Wreaths, snowflakes and Peace on Earth plaques line ... More >>
Sinking Ad Pages Take Tribune Co. Into Chapter 11
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 10:39 am | Martha Rosenberg
You know the newspaper industry is hurting when free copies of the Chicago Tribune are replaced with a pay machine outside the Tribune's own Medill School of Journalism building on the Northwestern University campus. More >>
Bill Richardson's History of Canned Hunting
Monday, 15 December 2008, 12:24 pm | Martha Rosenberg
New Mexico governor Bill Richardson will do fine as US Secretary of Commerce. Unless he has to deal with animals. Richardson is among the one half of one percent of the public who is pro the sacred tradition of cockfighting which was legal in New Mexico ... More >>
Born With A Statin Deficiency?
Monday, 8 December 2008, 9:49 am | Martha Rosenberg
When Dr. Paul Ridker of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA presented the results of the AstraZeneca-funded JUPITER study at the American Heart Association conference in November--JUPITER standing for The Justification for the Use of Statins ... More >>
Looking for Service With Your Holiday Shopping?
Monday, 24 November 2008, 9:28 am | Martha Rosenberg
"No service?" ask two irate customers in a New Yorker-style cartoon as they pitch articles of clothing across the bar. "No shirt! No shoes!" More >>
What Do Men KnowAbout PMS? Except To Duck?
Thursday, 13 November 2008, 11:54 am | Martha Rosenberg
When the Pill debuted in the1960's feminist critics said it produced 51 changes in women's bodies--only one of which was cessation of ovulation. More >>
If You Liked Enron And Cheney, You'll Love AIG
Saturday, 8 November 2008, 2:32 pm | Martha Rosenberg
It sounded like an Enron deal all over again. In 2000, Gen Re agreed to buy $600 million in reinsurance coverage from insurance giant American International Group (AIG) creating the appearance of a $100 million risk. But secretly it was no risk ... More >>
Disgraced Psychiatrist Pushed New Wyeth Antidepres
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 1:52 pm | Martha Rosenberg
How did the credit derivatives that made quick money and then sacked the economy get approved? The same way pharma gets drugs approved; Hire doctors to happy talk them and lawyers to clean up the mess--once the profit's been made. More >>
Why does California need Prop 2?
Thursday, 16 October 2008, 1:30 pm | Martha Rosenberg
When Nancy Reimers, a veterinarian working for the United Egg Producers-supported Californians for Safe Food told California newspapers that, "Modern chicken houses are heated, cooled and monitored in every possible area," she didn't mean monitored ... More >>
Gun Lobby's Alarmism Fails
Saturday, 11 October 2008, 8:37 pm | Martha Rosenberg
You'd think the National Rifle Association (NRA) would be taking bows. In June, the Supreme Court put its Gun Confiscation Phobia (GCP) to rest by finding the District of Columbia's gun ban unconstitutional and affirming the Second Amendment. More >>
Martha Rosenberg: Posing for Playboy? Yawn
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 1:38 pm | Martha Rosenberg
Pamela Anderson may have given Hugh Hefner a personal nude lap dance for his 82nd birthday at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles in April--in front of his three girlfriends, no less--but actress Lindsay Lohan is less enamored with the patriarch of porn. More >>
Pharma Attacks Drug Warnings as Sales Fall
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 11:21 am | Martha Rosenberg
In April, Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), wrote that pharma's influence on medicine "is so blatant now you'd have to be deaf, blind and dumb not to see it," adding, "We should all get ... More >>
