Personal Health

Health Official: Resistance to Antibiotic Drugs Is a 'Catastrophic Threat'

By Alex Kane / AlterNet

A top British health official said bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a “catastrophic” health risk to patients.

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Johns Hopkins Gynecologist Secretly Videotaped Patients During Pelvic Exams for 20 years, Three Patients Claim

By Iulia Filip / Courthouse News

Your Brain on Love: The Fascinating Biochemical Reactions That Make Sparks Fly

By Barbara Fredrickson / The Penguin Press

Why Decriminalizing Smoking Heroin Would't Be as Crazy as It Might Sound

By Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Secretly Collected HIV Test Results Used in Criminal Prosecutions

By Todd Heywood / The American Independent

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Noise Isn't Just Annoying -- It's Bad for Your Health

Maureen Nandini Mitra / Earth Island Journal

Horror Care: How Private Health Care Is Shortening Our Lives

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

The 32 Dumbest and Most Devastating Sequester Cuts

Igor Volsky / Think Progress

How My Mom’s Death Changed My Thinking About End-of-Life Care

Charles Ornstein / ProPublica

Addiction Is a Mental Illness -- Treat It That Way

Scott Kellogg, Andrew Tatarsky / The Fix

Why America Has the Cheapest, Most Addictive and Most Nutritionally Inferior Food in the World

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

The Weaponizing of Salt, Sugar and Fat: The Secrets of How Big Food Got Us Hooked on Junk

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

Time to Stop White-Knuckling It -- America Opens Up on Anxiety and Panic Attacks

David Sirota / AlterNet

Scientists May Have Uncovered a Key to Understanding Why Many Women Get Breast Cancer

Lindsey Konkel / Environmental Health News

How Speed Bumps Help Predict Appendicitis

Kevin Charles Redmon / Pacific Standard

6 Ways to Achieve Eternal Happiness -- According to Science

Robert T. Gonzalez / i09

The 9 Weirdest Diets in History

Emine Saner / The Guardian

How CNN’s Wall-to-Wall ‘Poop Ship’ Coverage Failed To Highlight a Pressing Global Health Issue

Hayes Brown / Think Progress

The "Labia Pride" Movement Is on the March

Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon.com

Will We Ever Learn to Think in Moderation?

Maia Szalavitz / The Fix

Why You Can Thank Our War on Drugs For Roses Grown by Exploited Labor and Toxic Chemicals

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Heart Attack Grill Lives Up to Its Name

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

3 Reasons Even Right-Wing Republicans Should Like Unions

David Cohen / AlterNet

6 Secrets to Happiness (According to Science)

Robert T. Gonzalez / io9

Big Tobacco, Koch Brothers Planned Tea Parties a Decade Before They Hit American Politics

Brendan DeMelle / Huffington Post

Why 'Safe' Regulation of Fracking in New York Is a Fiction

Alison Rose Levy / AlterNet

Hearing Loss Is Reaching Epidemic Proportions -- How You Can Protect Your Ears

Nancy Kalish / Huffington Post

Radioactive Metal from Nuclear Weapons Facilities May End up in Your Shopping Bag

Karen Charman / WhoWhatWhy.com

Meet the Heartless Jerk Leading a Project to Eliminate Sick Leave

Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

Why the Newest Psychiatric Diagnostic Bible Will Be a Boon for Big Pharma

Bruce E. Levine / AlteNet

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