Personal Health

10 Amazing Things You'll Want to Know About This Week

By Liz Langley / AlterNet

Scientists have done it again...this week there's robot fish, inflatable bike helmets, invisibility cloaks, the first prank call and so much more.

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Can't Afford A Summer Vacation? Share Your Way To An Eco-Friendly Getaway

By Beth Buczynski / Shareable

Can Taking Public Transit Be Joyful?

By Scott Carlson / Grist.org

I Have Cancer -- And I'm More Stressed By America's Healthcare System Than My Disease

By Kelly Cuvar / AlterNet

Why We Have Emotions (And Why We Should Not Fight Them)

By Susan Johnson / Psychotherapy Networker

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

Addiction and America's Fat Problem

Susan Cheever / The Fix

Does Eating Organic Food Make You Selfish?

Tom Jacobs / Pacific Standard

Oregon Activists Pick Up "Health Care as a Human Right" Campaign for Real Universal Care

Peter Shapiro / Labor Notes

New York Nurses Take Back Their Union, Push for Safe Staffing

Mark Brenner / Labor Notes

Why We Cry: The Fascinating Psychology of Emotional Release

Jay Efran, Mitchell Greene / Psychotherapy Networker

How Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Establishment Drugged Up Our Kids

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

The Terrifying Truth About America's Obesity Epidemic

Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

'Last Call at the Oasis': Why Time Is Running Out to Save Our Drinking Water

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Top 5 Plastic Surgeries Men Get: The Pressure to be Physically Perfect Now for Men, Too

Craig Morgan / Rebel Magazine

Everything You Need to Know About Breasts

Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon

Why We Fall In Love With Bicycles: 7 Reasons to Get On And Ride

Christine M. Grant / Sightline Institute

Big Agriculture's Big Secrets: 9 Things You Need to Know About the Food You Eat

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Ask Your Doctor if This Big Pharma Scam Is Right for You: The Dangers of a Drugged Up America

Jim Hightower / Hightower Lowdown

Silencing Communities: How the Fracking Industry Keeps Its Secrets

Mike Ludwig / TruthOut.org

US Regulators Propose Companies Disclose Fracking Contaminants After Drilling

AFP

The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb

Brad Jacobson / AlterNet

The Attack on Obamacare is Another Front in the GOP War on Woman

Jessica Arons / Center for American Progress

Are Olive Oil and Canola Oil Interchangeable?

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

Is Your Hip Implant Safe? 4 Risky Medical Devices That Do Not Get Clinically Tested

Lena Groeger / ProPublica

The New Depression: Waves of Suicide in the Age of Austerity

Michelle Chen / In These Times

Independent Test Results Show Fracking Flowback Emissions Are Dangerous Toxic Chemicals

Earthworks

KFC Ordered to Pay $8.3 Million to Australian Girl Paralyzed After Eating a Twister Wrap

AFP

Gulf Coast Waters Closed to Shrimping

Joieau / Daily Kos

6 Kinds of Pills Big Pharma Tries to Get You Hooked on for Life

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

10 Amazing Discoveries You Missed This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

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