Personal Health

Occupy AIDS: ACT UP Celebrates 25 Years by Marching On Wall Street

By Michael Bouldin / AlterNet

ACT UP developed a model of direct action that is in many ways a template for Occupy--so it's not surprising that they're joining OWS for a march on Wall Street.

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Why Is Autism So Drastically on the Rise? An Environmental Horror Story

By Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet

Why Women (and Men) Get "Baby Fever"

By Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon

How Psychiatric Drugs Made America Mad

By Gary G. Kohls / Consortium News

Billions in Fines Don't Matter -- Here's How BP Should Be Punished for the Gulf Disaster

By Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica

Metal Shards and Much Worse In Your Food? What Happens When the Food Industry Regulates Itself

Merchant of Death Steps Down: A Look at the Deadly Work of Philip Morris International's Outgoing CEO Louis Camilleri

6 New Ways Big Pharma Is Scheming to Make Billions at the Expense of Your Health

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Personal Health

EPA's First Fracking Rules Seen as Limited and Delayed

Lena Groeger / ProPublica

Eyeless Shrimp and Fish With Tumors: The Horrific Consequences of BP's Spill

Lisa Kaas Boyle / AlterNet

2012 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Risk Their Lives

Environment News Service

Conservatives' Losing Bet on Birth Control: History Suggests They Might've Woken a Sleeping Giant

Patti Miller / RH Reality Check

Inside the Growing Prescription Pill Epidemic That's Ravaging Communities

Evelyn Nieves / AlterNet and Salon

How Psychiatry Stigmatizes Depression Sufferers

Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet

10 Cool Things the World Learned This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

My 14 Year Old Son Has Brain Cancer -- Without Obamacare, We May Have Been Dropped By Our Insurance Company

Janine Urbaniak / Salon

The Politics of Fat: We Have to Keep Struggling to Liberate Ourselves from Self-Hatred

Allison McCarthy / AlterNet

The Bicycling Community Is Becoming a Political Force to Be Reckoned With -- And That's Great News

Jay Walljasper / Shareable

A Photographer's Mission to Show That Breast Cancer Is More Than Pink Ribbons

Amy DePaul / AlterNet

Rx for U.S. Health (and Healthcare): A Politics of Solidarity and Equality

David Moberg / In These Times

Why Are People Dying to Bring You Dinner? The Shocking Facts About Our Food System

Christopher D. Cook / AlterNet

5 Ways Virginia May Be the Worst State in the Nation

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

What Happens to Health Care if the Court's Conservative Activists Just Strike Down the Mandate?

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Whatever the Supreme Court Decides on Healthcare, Nurses See the Real Crisis Continuing

Karen Higgins / AlterNet

Red State or Blue State America? What's at Stake Over Healthcare at the Supreme Court

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

What Happened When I Lost 40 Pounds

Sarah Hepola / Salon

Why the Right to Water Is Under Attack

Shiney Varghese / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

The Right-Wing Plot to Control Your Health Care

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

What to Make of EPA Test Results: Is Water in Dimock, PA Really Safe to Drink After Fracking Contamination?

Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica

5 Reasons the GOP's Attack on Birth Control Screws Men

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

The Fascinating Buddhist Approach to Low Self-Esteem

Tim Desmond / Psychotherapy Networker

Women Have Been Fighting Misinformation and Oppression of Their Bodies for Decades

Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet

If We Let Health Care Workers Lose Their Jobs and Homes, Who's Left to Care for Us?

Eileen Boris, Jennifer Klein / Dissent Magazine

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