How Psychiatric Drugs Made America Mad
By Gary G. Kohls / Consortium News
Many casually prescribed drugs are fully capable of disabling – often permanently – bodies, brains and spirits.
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Why Women (and Men) Get "Baby Fever"
By Tracy Clark-Flory
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Billions in Fines Don't Matter -- Here's How BP Should Be Punished for the Gulf Disaster
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EPA's First Fracking Rules Seen as Limited and Delayed
By Lena Groeger
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Eyeless Shrimp and Fish With Tumors: The Horrific Consequences of BP's Spill
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Conservatives' Losing Bet on Birth Control: History Suggests They Might've Woken a Sleeping Giant
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Inside the Growing Prescription Pill Epidemic That's Ravaging Communities
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10 Cool Things the World Learned This Week
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My 14 Year Old Son Has Brain Cancer -- Without Obamacare, We May Have Been Dropped By Our Insurance Company
By Janine Urbaniak / Salon
The Politics of Fat: We Have to Keep Struggling to Liberate Ourselves from Self-Hatred
By Allison McCarthy / AlterNet

The Bicycling Community Is Becoming a Political Force to Be Reckoned With -- And That's Great News
By Jay Walljasper / Shareable
A Photographer's Mission to Show That Breast Cancer Is More Than Pink Ribbons
By Amy DePaul / AlterNet
Rx for U.S. Health (and Healthcare): A Politics of Solidarity and Equality
By David Moberg / In These Times
Why Are People Dying to Bring You Dinner? The Shocking Facts About Our Food System
By Christopher D. Cook / AlterNet
5 Ways Virginia May Be the Worst State in the Nation
By Tara Lohan / AlterNet
What Happens to Health Care if the Court's Conservative Activists Just Strike Down the Mandate?
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Whatever the Supreme Court Decides on Healthcare, Nurses See the Real Crisis Continuing
By Karen Higgins / AlterNet

Red State or Blue State America? What's at Stake Over Healthcare at the Supreme Court
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Why the Right to Water Is Under Attack
By Shiney Varghese / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
What to Make of EPA Test Results: Is Water in Dimock, PA Really Safe to Drink After Fracking Contamination?
By Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica
5 Reasons the GOP's Attack on Birth Control Screws Men
By Joshua Holland / AlterNet
The Fascinating Buddhist Approach to Low Self-Esteem
By Tim Desmond / Psychotherapy Networker

Women Have Been Fighting Misinformation and Oppression of Their Bodies for Decades
By Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet
If We Let Health Care Workers Lose Their Jobs and Homes, Who's Left to Care for Us?
By Eileen Boris, Jennifer Klein / Dissent Magazine
Why Hot Dogs, Chicken Nuggets and Some Other "Meats" Are Way Grosser Than 'Pink Slime'
By Ari LeVaux / AlterNet
5 Right-Wing Violations Against Women That We Must Crush
By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet
Does Meat Kill More Americans Than Cigarettes Do?
By Kathy Freston / AlterNet
Got Propaganda? Why All of the Milk Industry's Health Claims Have Been Proven Wrong
By Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

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