Personal Health

Caffeine-Related Fatalities? America's Love Affair With the Stimulant May Have Gone Too Far

By Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

It's so ubiquitous it’s considered an essential part of our culture -- but is caffeine dangerous?

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Does Sugar Kill? How the Sugar Industry Hid the Toxic Truth

By Gary Taubes, Cristin Kearns Couzens / Mother Jones

Woman Dies After Being Denied Abortion: When Religious Rules Trump Science

By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

How I Became a Junkie

By Amy Dresner / The Fix

Drudge Goes All in With "Secession" Meme as the Republican War on the Constitution Escalates

By Joshua Holland / AlterNet

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Why Life in America Can Literally Drive You Insane

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Personal Health

Papa John's Only Insures One in Three Workers, But CEO Tries to Blame Obamacare If That Drops

Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

Why I Almost Drank Myself to Death

Nic Sheff / The Fix

GOP Sen. Candidate Todd Akin Arrested 8 Times for Anti-Abortion Extremism -- "Had to be Carried Out by Police"

Frederick Clarkson / Daily Kos

5 Disturbing Signs Romney Would Steer Us to Towards a Capitalist Dictatorship

Juan Cole / Informed Comment

I Was Addicted to Sugar

Laura Barcella / The Fix

Whistleblower: 6 Ways Romney's Healthcare Proposals Enrich Insurance Companies and Sicken Americans

Brad Jacobson, Wendell Potter / AlterNet

Vandana Shiva: Why Monsanto Is Fighting Tooth and Nail Against California's Prop 37

Sonali Kolhatkar / Uprising Radio

Number of States in Which Rapists Can Sue For Custody and Visitation Rights -- 31 -- and Other Shocking Rape Facts

Soraya Chemaly / Huffington Post

The Angry Brain: How to Help Men With Uncontrollable Tempers

Ron Potter-Efron / Psychotherapy Networker

Few Politicians Actually Understand What "Health of the Mother” Really Means

Suzanne Edwards / Salon.com

Unexpected Ways That Bicycling Is Proving a Boon for Business

Jay Walljasper / AlterNet

Not Just Mourdock -- Meet 7 Other Republicans Trying to Block Abortion for Rape Victims

Igor Volsky / Think Progress

Network Splits With Actress Over Gluten: Is Celiac a Real Malady or a Dietary Choice?

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

5 Reasons to End Our War on Germs Before it Kills Us All

Katherine Butler / AlterNet

Corporations Cashing in Big Time on Breast Cancer -- 5 Shocking Hypocrisies

Brittany Shoot / AlterNet

Too Big to Chug: How Our Sodas Got So Huge

Azeen Ghorayshi / Mother Jones

5 Weird and Frightening Effects of Fracking You May Not Know About

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Right-Winger's Weird Proposal to Ban the Sale of Food That Contains Aborted Fetuses Trips on Ancient History

Tina Dupuy / The Skeptic

Can the Local Food Movement Scale Up to Meet the Demand of Hospitals and Other Big Purchasers?

Kendra Klein / The Nation

Why the Right to Know What's in Our Food Has Become One of the Biggest Fights of the Election

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

Debunked: 6 Lies That Biotech and Big Food Are Telling Voters About Prop 37

Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

Cell Phone Gave Man a Tumor, According to Major Court Ruling

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Will Fracking Sicken and Kill More New Yorkers Than it Employs?

Sandra Steingraber, Kathleen Nolan / New Yorkers Against Fracking

Amazing Medical Discovery: Transfusions of Young Blood Appear to Rejuvenate the Elderly

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

A Scary New Form of Depression Is Emerging That Doctors Don't Know How to Treat ... And Its Causes Are Economic

Charles Hugh Smith / Of Two Minds

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