Personal Health

Reading the News Is Fun and Patriotic, But It Sure Can Make You Anxious

By Marty Kaplan / AlterNet

Keeping up with the news can give you something the American Psychiatric Association ought to call "Informed Citizen Disorder."

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What Angelina Jolie Didn't Tell You About Breast Cancer and That Gene

By Jane McAlevey / AlterNet

Meet the Doctor Big Pharma Can't Shut Up

By Tamara Straus / AlterNet

Ending Bikelash: Bicycling Surges Nationwide As Urbanites Support Bike Lanes and Bike-Sharing Programs

By Jay Walljasper / AlterNet

10 Most Absurd Lies Told By McDonald's CEO

By Michele Simon / AlterNet

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Personal Health

USDA Inspector General: Food Safety and Humane Slaughter Laws Ignored With Impunity

Bruce Friedrich / Huffington Post

My Alcoholic Husband Has Relapsed into Extreme Drinking -- Again, and Again, and Again

Sadie Long / The Fix

Sick Patients Are Pumped Full of Feed-Tube Formula of Corn Syrup That's Produced by ... Nestle?

April M. Short / AlterNet

Obese From the Womb? The Shocking New Trend in America’s Weight Epidemic

Casey Lazonick / AlterNet

Is the Idea of an Intelligent Self-Help Book a Paradox?

Lisa Levy / Los Angeles Review of Books

How Ecstasy Can Take You on the Healing Path ... Even for a Former Nun

Ralph Metzner / AlterNet

Inside Mind-Tripping, Soul-Changing, Ground-Shifting, 21st Century Psychedelic Therapy

Don Lattin / Spirituality and Health

Paranoia About Fats Is Driven by Junk Science

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Biblical Medicine? How Religious Corporations Are Gobbling Up Healthcare Facilities

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

How Corporations Are Subverting Attempts to Rein in Their Power

Thomas Mc Donagh / AlterNet

In the Age of Social Media, People Say They Want More Real Friends

Jodie Gummow / AlterNet

Austerity Kills: Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis

Amy Goodman, David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu / Democracy Now!

How Coca-Cola's Ruthless Business Tactics Created a Despicable Global Powerhouse

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Bill Moyers: 12 Ways You Can Avoid Toxic Chemicals

Lauren Feeney / Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers: Our Media Is Polluted by Toxic Lies About the Risks Posed by Lead

Bill Moyers, David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz / BillMoyers.com

Hospitals Should be Care Providers not Loan Sharks

Deborah Burger / AlterNet

Why You Can't Sleep: The Science of Insomnia

Joseph Bennington-Castro / io9

Meet the Senate's Powerful and Progressive Policy Wonk, Ron Wyden

Joe Conason / AlterNet

One Company Has Enormous Power in the Breast Cancer 'Market'—and Their Pricey Test Could Be Costing Lives

Irin Carmon / Salon

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

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Welcome to the Brave New World of Corporatized Medicine: Just Hope You Don't Get Sick!

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

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

Michele Simon, John Stewart / AlterNet

How the Economic Slowdown Has Drastically Affected How Much America Spends on Health Care

Laura Tyson / Al Jazeera English

My First Baby Was Born with a Rare Syndrome -- I'm Pregnant Again, and Worried About What Could Happen

Heather Kirn Lanier / Salon

Is Cutthroat Capitalism Pushing a Growing Number of Baby Boomers to Suicide?

Les Leopold / AlterNet

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