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

How Corporations Use Global Investment Rules to Undermine a Sustainable Future

By Thomas Mc Donagh / AlterNet

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

By Jodie Gummow / AlterNet

Austerity Kills: Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis

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

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

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

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

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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

6 New Ways Big Pharma Is Scheming to Make Billions at the Expense of Your Health

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

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