Personal Health

Eating Disorders Aren't Just for the Young: Anorexia Killed My Grandmother

By Claire Glass / xojane

My grandma's entire lifelong battle with anorexia upends the stereotype that eating disorders affect only the very young and impressionable.

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How Weed Can Protect Us From Cancer and Alzheimer's

By Clint Werner / AlterNet

4 Dangerous Myths About Government Spending

By Mattea Kramer / TomDispatch.com

An Age-Old Secret to Losing Weight

By Jill Suttie / Greater Good

How Big Pharma and Dr. Drew Made a Fortune Deceiving America

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

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

Mooney: Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?

Chris Mooney / Salon

Imagine Never Having to Have Your Period Again? The Truth About Menstruation

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

John Robbins: Life on the Frontlines of the Food Revolution

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

There's No Hiding It: Citizens United Wasn't About "Speech" -- It Was About Takeover of American Democracy

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship / BillMoyers.com

"Abuse-Deterrent" OxyContin Leads to Heroin Use -- So How Do We Curb the Pill Epidemic?

Meghan Ralston / AlterNet

We Had a Secret Nuclear Weapons Plant Near a Major American City? Yeah, One of the Most Contaminated Sites in America

Brad Jacobson / AlterNet

What's a Lota? Let Me Explain the Secrets of the Muslim Bathroom

Wajahat Ali / Salon

Exposing the Grave Dangers of Life in an Oil Refinery Zone

Stephanie Elizondo Griest / Earth Island Journal

GOP Peddling a Ridiculous "Alternative" to Obamacare

Taylor Lincoln / AlterNet

Take a Pill, Kill Your Sex Drive? 6 Reasons Antidepressants Are Misnamed

Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet

Black Lung Is Back: Easily Cheated Regulations and Little Oversight Lead to Severe Cases in Young Miners

Chris Hamby / IWatch News

5 Basics for Defending Obamacare

Bob Burnett / The Smirking Chimp

Shocking Health Effects of Commonly Used Pesticide: Brain Problems, Sexual Deformities and Paralysis

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Obesity in Asia: American Fast Food is Fare for the Rich

Andrew Lam / New America Media

What GIS Mapping Technology Can Tell You About the Health of Your Neighborhood and Your Risk for Illness

Christine MacDonald / AlterNet

10 Reasons Most People Like Obamacare Once They Know What's Really In It

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

The Ones We've Lost: The Student Loan Debt Suicides

Cryn Johannsen / Economic Hardship Reporting Project

We Have Happy Pills, Anxiety Drugs, and Therapists Galore: So Why Are We More Stressed and Depressed Than Ever?

Andrew Weil / Psychotherapy Networker

Let's Declare Independence From Religious Health-Care Restrictions

Frances Kissling / Religion Dispatches

Job Insecurity: It's the Disease of the 21st Century -- And It's Killing Us

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

4 Reasons Why Republicans Won't Be Able to Repeal Obamacare

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress

Bernie Sanders, Nurses: We Still Need 'Medicare for All'

John Nichols / The Nation

Why Justice Roberts' Opinion Could Set Alarming Precedents

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Supreme Court Finds Frivolous Lawsuit to Be Frivolous; Upholds “Obamacare”

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

How the Drug War Exacerbates the Global HIV Pandemic

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

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