Personal Health

5 Marijuana Compounds That Could Help Combat Cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinsons (If Only They Were Legal)

By Paul Armentano / AlterNet

They don't even get you high, so why are these natural, non-toxic substances illegal? Because they're derived from cannabis.

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Is Your Fish Safe to Eat? Why Warnings May Not Be Reaching the People Most at Risk

By Rae Tyson / Environmental Health News

Is Alzheimers Caused By Too Much Sugar? How the American Diet Is as Bad for Our Brains as Our Bodies

By Tom Philpott / Mother Jones

5 Diseases on the Move in North America, Thanks to Climate Change

By Katherine Butler / AlterNet

How Gambling Can Kill You Faster Than Drug Abuse or Alcoholism

By Chris Wright / The Fix

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

Sick Money: How Mitt Romney's Bain Investments Are Exploding the Deficit and Harming Our Health

Richard (RJ) Eskow / AlterNet

How Paul Ryan Flip-Flopped From 'Leave it Up to the States' to Anti-Legalization in One Weekend

Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story

How Margaret Sanger Led the Birth Control Movement - and Why the GOP Still Hates Her

Peter Drier / Nation Books

Whoa, Is Organic Food No Healthier Than Non-Organic? Controversy Erupts Over Study

Jason Mark / Earth Island Journal

A $2,167.02 Water Bill? How a Water Company Forced a 91-year-old Woman To Sell Her Home

Wenonah Hauter / Progressive Populist

Having Surgery? What You Need to Know About Post-Operative Depression

Carey Purcell / AlterNet

4 Ways Romney & Ryan Would Roll Back the 20th Century

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

5 Crazy Things the GOP Is Still Saying About Women, Rape and Abortion--Even While the Convention Tried to Ignore It

Lauren Kelley, Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Can Antibiotics Make You Gain Weight?

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

The Straight Dope: Marijuana's Miracle Compound Contains Weed's Medical Benefits Without the High

Melinda Misuraca / North Bay Bohemian

Farmer Debunks Corporate Propaganda Against Proposed Law to Label Genetically Modified Food

Will Allen / AlterNet

Home Care Workers: Still Waiting for Obama

Jennifer Klein, Eileen Boris / Labor Notes

5 Countries Where You Don't Have to Work Yourself to Death to Make Ends Meet

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

5 Weird -- and Terrifying -- Consequences of Climate Change You May Not Know About

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

A World of Hillbilly Heroin: The Hollowing Out of America, Up Close and Personal

Chris Hedges / TomDispatch

Not-For-Profit Hospitals Make Billions—and Provide Little Charity Care

Kari Lydersen / In These Times

The 8 Worst Things Republicans Have Said About Rape, Sex and Women's Bodies

Sarah Seltzer, Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

The Power of Being an Introvert in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Diane Cole / Psychotherapy Networker

Looking to Mexico for an Alternative to Abortion Clinics

Reynaldo Leal / New America Media

7 Reasons Why Romney-Ryan's Desperate Attempts to Spin Medicare Won't Work

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Where Are the Bad Guys? Crackdown on Medical Pot Attacks the Sick and Working

Amanda Reiman / AlterNet

The Shocking Second HIV Epidemic Among U.S. Gay Men That No One Is Talking About

Michael Bouldin / AlterNet

America's 12 Most Obese States (And What the Numbers Don't Tell Us)

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

It Has Come to This -- Close-to-Death Cash-Strapped Americans Selling Their Life Insurance Policies

John Gravois / Pacific Standard

Ryan Sponsored Abortion Bill That Would Make Romney's Kids Criminals

Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones

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