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Martha Rosenberg is the Investigative Health Correspondent for NewsBlaze. Martha illustrates many of her stories with relevant cartoons. She was staff cartoonist at Evanston Roundtable.

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Human Attention Span Now Equal to Goldfish

A recent report found that humans now have the attention span of goldfish; in just 15 years, thanks to the Internet and social media,...
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Will Biden Resurrect the Conflict-Ridden Robert Califf as FDA Commissioner?

In 2011, FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg, an Obama nominee, lamented that the government could not find enough experts who were not funded by drug...
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Prescription Drug Safety Risks Hidden, Hypochondria Created by Marketing

If you're like most people, you never heard of the prescription drug Humira until 2013. That's when Abbott Laboratories spun off AbbVie, to aggressively...
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Transgender Terms Push Transgender Agenda

Transgender terms have overtaken the language and are driving the transgender agenda. Normal people are "cis-gender"? Gender on birth certificates is "assigned" not ascertained...
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Lab Accidents From Animal Disease Research Raise Fears

A French laboratory worker has been diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) leading to an immediate moratorium on the prion research the worker and others...
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Speech and Reporting Censored as “Anti-Muslim”

For animal lovers Eid al-Adha is the saddest day of the year. To thank Allah for sparing Ibrahim's child from death, Muslim families sacrifice...
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Is Obesity The New Smoking? It Certainly Is In the U.S.

In the 1960s, 42 percent of Americans smoked. Ubiquitous cigarette ads, eventually banned in the US, promised that smoking made men more masculine and...
drug ads - 2 men in a bar. Cartoon by Martha Rosenberg, NewsBlaze

How Drug Ads Get This New Product in Your Medicine Cabinet

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug ads please almost everyone. Drug makers sell more product without having to pay reps,* TV, radio and print outlets clean up...
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Has Covid Increased Your “Housing Rage”?

Covid reduced tensions that existed at the office because people working from home don't complain about cube mates' noise or constant microwave popcorn. It...
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Liberal Magazine Reverses Its Crazy Positions to Remain Vaccine Woke

Liberal media, represented by Mother Jones, is out of its mind. The liberal magazine has thrown out all of its guiding principles to become...
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Will Brick and Mortar Shopping Survive Devastating Odds?

Brick and mortar stores and shopping malls hit the trifecta in 2020. Internet competition, Covid-19 and looting caused by social unrest. In Chicago, affluent...
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Was There Cancel Culture Before Social Media? Yes But It Was...

The cancel culture, rampant today, is defined as punishing public figures for their offensive behavior, whether boycotting their products and franchises or getting them...
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Don’t Use Mass Shootings For Woke Agenda!

It is a macabre fact. The easing of Covid shutdowns has brought back mass shootings in the U.S. With almost no packed schools, movie...
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America Choking on Wokism

In a leafy, affluent Chicago suburb of million dollar homes, the Christmas decorations are finally down but other adornments remain. "Hate Has No Home...
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Researchers Bristle at Monkey Shortage: Wildlife Markets vs Animal Labs

Animal research is seldom in the news, even during Covid-19 vaccine development. Why? Animal research is too expensive and sensitive to risk activists displaying...
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Humor: Tech Abuse – When Bots Attack

Phone Bots That Want a Conversation Do you remember when, a few years ago, voicemail bots would chat with you? They would say something useful...
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A Drug Maker Halo For a Covid Vaccine? Not With This...

No one who cares about humanity could oppose the creation of a Covid-19 vaccine to help end the pandemic. Yet, the vaccine "halo" drug...
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Suite of Humor Books in Time for the Holidays

Art Hartz, a former medical researcher, has launched four books of editorial cartoons about self-esteem, meaningful relationships and "the daily assaults on both."More information...
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The Karens People Don’t Remember

It's a new epithet. It stars in YouTube videos. Even Chicago's Mayor Lightfoot has used it as an insult. It's the name Karen.Karen is...
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Who’s Afraid of the Woke Generation Shame?

Sixteen months ago Chelsea Clinton had a surprise induction into woke shame. While attending a NYU vigil for the Muslims who were murdered in...

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