Personal Health

How the "Pro-Life" Movement Puts Women Behind Bars

By Lynn Paltrow, Emma S. Ketteringham / AlterNet

In Alabama, the claim that eggs, embryos and fetuses have separate legal rights has led to the jailing of 60 women.

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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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Personal Health

4 Ways to Protect Kids From the Prescription Pill Epidemic, Minus the Fear Tactics

Maia Szalavitz / The Fix

When Bullies Go To Work

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

How America Is Making the Whole World Fat and Unhealthy

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Students Eating "Pink Slime" for Lunch? Fast Foods Have Ditched the "Meat" But Schools Are Still Stuck With It

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

How Republicans Are Trying to Force You to Pay for Others' Religious Beliefs

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Is Gluten Ruining Your Health (Or Are We Way Too Paranoid?)

Anneli Rufus / AlterNet

The 8-Hour Sleep Myth: How I Learned That Everything I Knew About Sleep Was Wrong

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

BP to Pay $7.8 Billion to Settle Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Lawsuit -- Is the Company Getting Off Too Easy?

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

I Love Food, But Food Doesn't Love Me -- What's Behind Food Intolerance?

Casey Lazonick / AlterNet

Risking Peace at a Troubled School

David Markus / Edutopia

The Medium Chill: How to Have Enough Without Having More

David Roberts / Grist.org

15 'Near-Misses' at U.S. Nuclear Plants in 2011

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Moyers: How Fear of Science Can Destroy Us

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship / BillMoyers.com

How I Learned the Mainstream Myth About Eating Disorders Was Wrong

Autumn Whitefield-Madrano / Salon

A Bond Like No Other: The Ties Between Brothers and Sisters -- and What Happens When a Sibling Dies

Diane Cole / Psychotherapy Networker

The 11 Dumbest Things Conservatives Have Said About Women

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Is the Era of Nuclear Power Coming to an End in the US?

Steven Wishnia / AlterNet

Washington DC: Staging Ground for Ending Legal Access to Abortion?

Robin Marty, Jessica Mason Pieklo / AlterNet

Big Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat

Christopher D. Cook / AlterNet

7 Dangerous Lies About Plastic

Stiv Wilson / AlterNet

Kentucky and Oklahoma Reject "Anti-Meth" Bills Banning Over-the-Counter Cold Medicine

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France

Anthony Gucciardi / Natural Society

What Are We Really Eating? Reporter Goes Undercover to Reveal the Real Story of Our Broken Food System

Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

Santorum's Policies Would Have Killed My Daughter

Sarah Fister Gale / Salon

Would We Have Drugged Up Einstein? How Anti-Authoritarianism Is Deemed a Mental Health Problem

Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet

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