Personal Health

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

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

There’s no safe level of exposure to this dangerous toxin still lurking in millions of homes, but that truth is consistently under attack from industry-funded public relations excecutives.

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Hospitals Should be Care Providers not Loan Sharks

By Deborah Burger / AlterNet

Why You Can't Sleep: The Science of Insomnia

By Joseph Bennington-Castro / io9

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

By Irin Carmon / Salon

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

By Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

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

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

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Personal Health

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

The Fix

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

Denied a Liver Transplant for Using Medical Marijuana, and Dying for It -- The Heartlessness of Prohibition

Matthew Donigian / AlterNet

Organic Eden Foods’ Secretive Right-Wing Agenda

Irin Carmon / Salon

How America Breeds Mental Illness from Birth Until Death

Belén Fernández / Al Jazeera

7 Places Your Cell Phone Doesn’t Belong – And May Be Harming You

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Want to Get Americans Off Junk Food? Pay Them a Living Wage

Jill Richardson / Other Words

The Fascinating Ways Meditation Transforms Your Brain -- and Why It Makes You Feel Better

George Dvorsky / io9

Religion-Affiliated Institutions Try to Have It Both Ways With Your Taxes and Your Birth Control

Bridgette Dunlap / RH Reality Check

Is Juicing Raw Cannabis the Miracle Health Cure That Some of Its Proponents Believe It to Be?

Martin A. Lee / O'Shaughnessy's

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