New York State's Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Goes Down the Drain: Lessons for Nutrition Advocates
The soda tax came and went this year in New York. Here, Corporations and Health Watch examines the campaign to pass a sugar-sweetened beverage tax, the likely factors that led to its failure, and also offers important lessons for future efforts.
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Off-label Marketing: Good for Business, Bad for Health
Off-label marketing has been illegal since 1938 but continues despite major lawsuits because expanding market share leads to hefty industry profits. And now, a last minute Bush administration policy push inside the FDA may be giving this practice of off-label marketing the official thumbs up.
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The Depression Epidemic: The Medication-alization
of Sadness
Is there really an epidemic of depression or is it, as some have suggested, forces of medicalization at work? This article looks at pharma's direct-to-consumer advertising practices of marketing antidepressants and the health insurance industry's influence on the perception of depression prevalence.
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Baby Carrots: Model Product for a New Economy?
Under what circumstances can the interests of companies and consumer health coincide? Can food companies make a profit promoting healthier food? To find answers to these questions, this month Corporations and Health Watch examines a single product—baby carrots. An analysis of the industry and consumer practices contributing to the rise in popularity of baby carrots offer an opportunity to examine how healthy food can mean big profits for food companies.
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News Updates: New Reports on the Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire Arms Industries
The gun industry's role in trafficking weapons to Mexico, the FDA set to regulate tobacco, and the new venues of alcohol advertising: the influence of corporations on population health is all over the news! Check out highlights from three new reports that focus on regulation.
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