Personal Health

Unexpected Ways That Bicycling Is Proving a Boon for Business

By Jay Walljasper / AlterNet

Cities across the U.S. are discovering that good biking attracts great jobs and top talent to their communities.

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Not Just Mourdock -- Meet 7 Other Republicans Trying to Block Abortion for Rape Victims

By Igor Volsky / Think Progress

Network Splits With Actress Over Gluten: Is Celiac a Real Malady or a Dietary Choice?

By Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

5 Reasons to End Our War on Germs Before it Kills Us All

By Katherine Butler / AlterNet

Corporations Cashing in Big Time on Breast Cancer -- 5 Shocking Hypocrisies

By Brittany Shoot / AlterNet

Caffeine-Related Fatalities? America's Love Affair With the Stimulant May Have Gone Too Far

Whistleblower: 6 Ways Romney's Healthcare Proposals Enrich Insurance Companies and Sicken Americans

5 Reasons to End Our War on Germs Before it Kills Us All

Personal Health

Too Big to Chug: How Our Sodas Got So Huge

Azeen Ghorayshi / Mother Jones

5 Weird and Frightening Effects of Fracking You May Not Know About

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Right-Winger's Weird Proposal to Ban the Sale of Food That Contains Aborted Fetuses Trips on Ancient History

Tina Dupuy / The Skeptic

Can the Local Food Movement Scale Up to Meet the Demand of Hospitals and Other Big Purchasers?

Kendra Klein / The Nation

Why the Right to Know What's in Our Food Has Become One of the Biggest Fights of the Election

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

Debunked: 6 Lies That Biotech and Big Food Are Telling Voters About Prop 37

Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Cell Phone Gave Man a Tumor, According to Major Court Ruling

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Will Fracking Sicken and Kill More New Yorkers Than it Employs?

Sandra Steingraber, Kathleen Nolan / New Yorkers Against Fracking

Amazing Medical Discovery: Transfusions of Young Blood Appear to Rejuvenate the Elderly

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

A Scary New Form of Depression Is Emerging That Doctors Don't Know How to Treat ... And Its Causes Are Economic

Charles Hugh Smith / Of Two Minds

14-Year Old Girl Faces Life In Prison for Killing Her Baby: Is She a Victim Of Florida's Insane Abstinence Education?

Claire Glass / xojane

How Kids Are Getting Hooked on Pills for Life

Evelyn Pringle, Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

How to Talk to Teenagers Who Don't Want to Talk to You

Janet Sasson Edgette / Psychotherapy Networker

Richmond: Looking to a New, Greener Future

Rachel Morello-Frosch , Manuel Pastor / AlterNet

Barely Mentioned In the Debates: Abortion Rights

Tracy Weitz / AlterNet

Transit Justice: Providing Service and Shipping Out Greenhouse Gases

Rachel Morello-Frosch , Manuel Pastor / AlterNet

Overprotective Parents Gone Over the Edge -- Vaccine Hysteria on the Rise, and Old Diseases Are Making a Comeback

Joan Retsinas / Progressive Populist

Skinny Minnie? Our Culture's Bizarre Obsession With Stick-Thin Women

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Communities Take Food Justice Into Their Own Hands, One Plot at a Time

Rachel Morello-Frosch , Manuel Pastor / AlterNet

Women Are the Key to the Presidential Debate and Election

Ruth Rosen / Open Democracy 50.50

Karuk Tribe: Learning from the First Californians for the Next California

Manuel Pastor / AlterNet

Obamacare Simulation's Dramatic Effect on Teen Pregnancy Really a Technology Tipping Point

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

4 Right-Wing Sex Panics Debunked by Reality

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Powerful Court Quietly Takes Marijuana Case That Could Shatter Federal Prohibition Laws

Steven Wishnia / AlterNet

Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate and Control?

Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet

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