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On AlterNet: disease

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "disease"

Blaming Your Genes for Your Health Problems? Not so Fast.

Blaming Your Genes for Your Health Problems? Not so Fast.

Jamie D. Brooks, Meredith L. King, Center for American Progress. January 18, 2008.
The media and medical community have grossly oversimplified links between genetics, race and disease.

Now Doctors Say It's Good to be Overweight

Now Doctors Say It's Good to be Overweight

David Usborne, The Independent UK. November 13, 2007.
After years of anti-obesity public health advice, a major new study causes an outcry by concluding that the moderately overweight live longer.

Our Assumptions About What Causes Chronic Diseases Could Be Wrong

Our Assumptions About What Causes Chronic Diseases Could Be Wrong

Laura Wright, OnEarth Magazine. August 9, 2007.
Discoveries about how chemicals and environmental toxins interact with our DNA and make us susceptible to disease could revolutionize our concept of illness.

What Causes Cancer: Probably Not You

What Causes Cancer: Probably Not You

Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. August 7, 2007.
The perennial temptation to blame disease on sin or at least some grave moral failing just took another hit.

The Worst Health Money Can Buy

The Worst Health Money Can Buy

Kim Ridley, Ode. July 7, 2007.
What ails the U.S. health care system and how to fix it.