Martha Rosenberg
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.
JAMA Why Did You Publish This Drug Maker Funded “Research”
It is no secret that drug maker ads have gravitated to TV leaving medical journals, who used to rely on them for income, high...
Rapid Weight Loss Drugs Give Junk Food Sellers a Pass
The U.S. love affair with the new semaglutide-based rapid weight loss drugs like Ozempic gives junk food advertising and availability a huge pass.
Migrant Related Measles Outbreak Challenges Chicago Officials
By the first two weeks in March, Chicago was experiencing 10 cases of measles, a highly contagious viral disease not seen in the city since 2019.
The Fonz Is Pimping For Big Pharma
The Fonz, aloof, ever-cynical, and cool, played by actor Henry Winkler) is now an uber earnest drug pitchman, pimping for Big Pharma.
Vicious Backlashes Against Child Protection Laws Are Occurring
Initiated state laws to protect children from dangerous gender medical interventions are under attack. There is a frenzied backlash against these laws.
Operation Warp Speed-Dangerous Liaisons and Precedents
With the COVID-19 pandemic in our rearview mirror, not everyone remembers Operation Warp Speed (OWS), a program to fast track development and distribution of...
“Soap War” Ads Resume With New, Invented Problems: Smells Sell!
Are you old enough to remember the Madison Avenue fabrications (pun intended) of "Ring Around the Collar" and "Visible Panty Line"? If not, ask...
Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: Are You Sure You’re Not Sick?
The term "bipolar" has been vaulted into the public domain by drug makers seeking to enlarge the diagnosis to sell more meds. But is...
The Fall and Rise of Pink Slime and Faster Meat Packing...
Many people have forgotten about the 2012 "pink slime" scandal in which beef scraped from animals' skeletal muscle at processing plants was extruded through...
Why Is This Crisis Being Ignored? Interview with Border Reporter Todd...
The immigration crisis on the U.S. southern border is being ignored, says border reporter Todd Bensman, in this interview.Almost everyone wants to help downtrodden...
Don’t Fall For This Sleazy and Deceptive Marketing
It's no secret that milk sales have fallen for decades. A wealth of nondairy milks are now available without dairy milk's cholesterol, calories, antibiotics...
New and Improved “Diseases” Launched by Drugmakers to Sell Drugs
Are drugmakers running out of familiar diseases to float to the public to sell drugs? (See: Have Drug; Need Patients!) Apparently so because Pfizer...
Drag Is Blackface Against Women
Drag shows - which are especially prominent during "Pride" month (nee "Gay Pride" month) - are nothing but blackface against women.
Ask Your Doctor Ads – Ubiquitous and Seriously Dangerous
One night in 1997, as Americans were parked on the couch in front of an episode of Touched by an Angel, they were touched...
Where Have All the Herons Gone, New Orleanians Wonder
Herons and Egrets Disappeared
In 2004, bird watchers, golfers, and just those passing by in Audubon Park New Orleans were treated to an amazing rookery....
Can the CDC Be Trusted With Our Health?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a lot of new focus on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a U.S. government agency with about 11,000 employees.
Can The FDA Be Trusted?
Thanks to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) management of the COVID-19 pandemic, trust in the agency has never been lower.
Fool Women Twice? Drug Makers Revive Menopause as a Disease
In the words of the late soccer great Pelé spoofed on Saturday Night Live, women's health has been "very, very good" for drug makers....
A Big Win For Animal Abusers As Student Paper Censors Cruelty...
Animal Abusers win by using censorship in a free-speech North Carolina student newspaper. Apparently, lobbyist requests and the almighty dollar are more powerful than...
As Many as 1,000 Healthy Pigs Die After Vaccine
As many as 1,000 pigs died in Vietnam this past summer after receiving the first commercial vaccine to prevent African Swine Fever (ASF).