Personal Health

Is the Idea of an Intelligent Self-Help Book a Paradox?

By Lisa Levy / Los Angeles Review of Books

Popular self-help book series from the 'School of Life' lacks depth and purpose.

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How MDMA Can Take You on the Healing Path ... Even for a Former Nun

By Ralph Metzner / AlterNet

Biblical Medicine? How Religious Corporations Are Gobbling Up Healthcare Facilities

By Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

How Corporations Are Subverting Attempts to Rein in Their Power

By Thomas Mc Donagh / AlterNet

In the Age of Social Media, People Say They Want More Real Friends

By Jodie Gummow / AlterNet

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Personal Health

Austerity Kills: Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis

Amy Goodman, David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu / Democracy Now!

How Coca-Cola's Ruthless Business Tactics Created a Despicable Global Powerhouse

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Bill Moyers: 12 Ways You Can Avoid Toxic Chemicals

Lauren Feeney / Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers: Our Media Is Polluted by Toxic Lies About the Risks Posed by Lead

Bill Moyers, David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz / BillMoyers.com

Hospitals Should be Care Providers not Loan Sharks

Deborah Burger / AlterNet

Why You Can't Sleep: The Science of Insomnia

Joseph Bennington-Castro / io9

Meet the Senate's Powerful and Progressive Policy Wonk, Ron Wyden

Joe Conason / AlterNet

One Company Has Enormous Power in the Breast Cancer 'Market'—and Their Pricey Test Could Be Costing Lives

Irin Carmon / Salon

Metal Shards and Much Worse In Your Food? What Happens When the Food Industry Regulates Itself

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Welcome to the Brave New World of Corporatized Medicine: Just Hope You Don't Get Sick!

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

Merchant of Death Steps Down: A Look at the Deadly Work of Philip Morris International's Outgoing CEO Louis Camilleri

Michele Simon, John Stewart / AlterNet

How the Economic Slowdown Has Drastically Affected How Much America Spends on Health Care

Laura Tyson / Al Jazeera English

My First Baby Was Born with a Rare Syndrome -- I'm Pregnant Again, and Worried About What Could Happen

Heather Kirn Lanier / Salon

Is Cutthroat Capitalism Pushing a Growing Number of Baby Boomers to Suicide?

Les Leopold / AlterNet

How a Legal Loophole Allows Untested Pesticides in Everything From Cosmetics to Clothing

Laura Fraser / OnEarth Magazine

Is Climate Change Fueling a Deadly Disease in California and Other Parched States?

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Did Make-Up Give My Wife Breast Cancer? The Ugly Truth Hidden by the Cosmetics Industry

John Wasik / The Washington Monthly

Zoloft Put the Pleasure in My Sobriety

Maia Szalavitz / The Fix

Over 5,000 Children's Products Contain Toxic Chemicals Linked to Cancer and Hormone Disruption

Kathleen Schuler / Think Forward Blog

My Job at the Abortion Hotline

Kerry Sheridan / Salon.com

Casinos Are Booming Thanks to State Governments' Need to Exploit Gambling Addicts for Revenue

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Would You Give Up Eating Hamburgers to Stop Climate Change?

David Sirota / AlterNet

NARAL's New Leader Ilyse Hogue Aims to Change the Way America Talks About Reproductive Rights

Anna Simonton / AlterNet

Prescription Drugmaker Bribed Doctors With Cash and Visits to Hooters

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The Enormous Promise of Psychedelics for Sustaining Health, Happiness and Sanity

April M. Short / AlterNet

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