Personal Health

The Supreme Court Scenarios on Health Care; The Odds Are Bad for a Good Result

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

There are a number of ways the justices can go, but it doesn't look good.

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Is It Hard for You to Say No to Sweets and Temptation? You May Be Suffering From "Ego Depletion"

By David McRaney / AlterNet

Baby Food Diet? Americans Are Spending $50 Billion a Year Dieting -- And We're Getting Crazier By the Minute

By Casey Lazonick / AlterNet

Manic Nation: Why Americans Are Anxious, Stressed, Depressed and Fat (And What We Can Do About It)

By Mary Fischer / Pacific Standard

Give the People What They Want: Real Universal Health Care

By Robert Scheer / Truthdig

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

Pharmageddon: The Drug Industry's Grip on Our Health and Lives

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Attention Latinas: Arizona May Be The Worst Place in U.S. to Live

Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas / Huffington Post

If the Supreme Court Rejects Health Care, I (And Millions Like Me) Am Screwed

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

5 Ways Email Can Completely Ruin Your Life

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Toxic Chemicals in Hair and Nail Salons Create Serious Suffering in the Name of Beauty

Michelle Chen / In These Times

Progressive Candidate Darcy Burner: How I Became the Target of a Right-Wing Smear Campaign

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

The History of Supersizing: How We've Become a Nation Hooked on Bigger Is Better

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Revealed: NY Governor Plans to Experiment with Fracking in Economically Struggling Areas

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

10 New Mind-Blowing Discoveries

Liz Langley / AlterNet

Even Military Rape Victims Aren't Safe from the GOP -- 3 Republican Moves Against Women We Have to Beat Back

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

3 Reasons Your Diet Isn't Working and How to Do It Better

Kathy Freston / AlterNet

Water Too Dangerous to Drink: What Life's Like in California's Farming Communities

Liza Gross / Environmental Health News

Fracking Los Angeles: What Life Is Like on the Country's Biggest Urban Oilfield

Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

America: Where It's Easier to Get a Gun Than Good Mental Health Care

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

5 Ways to Get High -- Without Drugs or Booze

Rachael Brownell / The Fix

Better Than Sugar? The Truth About 6 Alternative Natural Sweeteners

Anneli Rufus / AlterNet

Maria Gunnoe Testifies Before Congress: Mountaintop Removal Is Killing People

Jeff Biggers / AlterNet

Surrounded by Refineries, Chemical Plants and Toxic Waste: How One California Town Became So Forsaken

Jane Kay, Cheryl Katz / Environmental Health News

Health Dangers in Your Hose: Are You Watering Your Garden With Endocrine Disruptors and Toxic Chemicals?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Health Care System Leaves Patients Frustrated--Nurses Work for a Solution

Michelle Chen / In These Times

8 Surprising Things That May Be Making Americans Fat

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Former UK Adviser: Cannabis and Ecstasy Bans Prevent Scientific Research

Alok Jha / The Guardian

Right-Wing Terrorism: Arson, Bombs, and Break-Ins at Women's Clinics Seek to Instill Fear

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

How Psychiatry Mistreats People of Color

Jamilah King / ColorLines

Groundbreaking Study Shows Why Fixing Healthcare Costs Is Still a Top Priority

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

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