Personal Health

A Fetus Is Not a Person if it Costs us Money, Says Catholic Church

By Kaili Joy Gray / Daily Kos

Forced to put its money where its mouth is, the Catholic Church backs off on the idea that the fetus is a person.

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New Sensitivity Gene Discovered

By Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. / AlterNet

Business Owners Who Oppose Obamacare's Birth Control Mandate Want Employees Just Like Them

By Howard M. Friedman / Religion Dispatches

Va. Bill Would Remove Abortion Funding for Women With Severely Deformed Fetuses

By Reilly Moore / The American Independent

U.S. Health Worse Than Nearly All Other Industrialized Countries

By Carey L. Biron / Inter Press Service

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Personal Health

Is Genetically Engineered Salmon Safe?

Ocean Robbins / AlterNet

Where We're at, 40 Years After Roe v. Wade: Many More Right Wingers Have Abortion as Single Issue, Than Do Liberals

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Say It Ain't So -- A Can of Soda a Day Can Increase the Risk of Cancer for Men by 40 Percent?

Scott Thill / AlterNet

Why a Town of 9/11 Survivors Is Fearful Their Community Will Be a Natural Gas Sacrifice Zone

Alison Rose Levy / AlterNet

What's Behind New Findings That It's Healthy to Be Overweight?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Coca-Cola's New Ad Campaign Claims the Company Is Fighting Obesity? Oh, Please

Marion Nestle / Food Politics

Your Brain Is Flawed -- 12 Scientific Reasons Human Beings Are Wildly Irrational

George Dvorsky / io9

'Sandy Hook Truthers' Crank Their Gun-Nuttery Up to the Max

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Is Sitting Worse Than Smoking?

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

An Astonishing Argument for Why Violent Crime Rates Have Dropped

George Monbiot / Monbiot.com

The Danger of Secret Alcoholism

Susan Cheever / The Fix

Abortion in America: Here Are the Facts, 40 Years After Roe

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Are Detox Diets and Cleanses Dangerous?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

The 4 Most Disgusting Energy Drinks Sold in America

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

The Deadly Secret About the Fiscal Cliff Charade

Richard (RJ) Eskow / Campaign for America's Future

What Happens When Fracking Hits the Suburbs

Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian

Marijuana Smoothie, Anyone?

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

My Heroin-Addicted Friend Was Determined to Detox with the Hallucinogen Ibogaine ... I Scored It for Him and Supervised His Trip

Matt Harvey / The Fix

A Personal Glimpse into Our Woefully Inadequate Mental Health System

Mary Ann Swissler / Women's Media Center

How I Survived Breaking Up With My Car

Erin L. McCoy / YES! Magazine

13 Ways to Change the Food System in 2013

Danielle Nierenberg / Food Tank

5 Reasons Our Changing Climate Is More Dangerous Than You Think

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Does Having a Gun in the Home Put Your Life at Risk?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother

Liza Long / The Blue Review

In the Wake of Another Mass Shooting, Let's Talk About America's Dangerously Gutted Mental Healthcare System

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

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