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The Dangers of Hormone Therapy: Why Is It Still Prescribed? Martha Rosenberg and Rowan Chlebowski, a lead investigator of the Women’s Health Initiative, talk about why doctors still promote hormone therapy despite its health risks.READ MORE Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet Why Eating Meat-Shaped Vegetarian Food Is Like Having Sex with a Blow-up Doll We’re living in a time when you can eat fake meat that tastes so real you’d swear an animal had to die for it. READ MORE Anneli Rufus / AlterNet Are Veterans Being Given Deadly Cocktails to Treat PTSD? A potentially deadly drug manufactured by pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has been linked to the deaths of soldiers returning from war. Yet the FDA continues to approve it. READ MORE Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet Do Kinder People Have an Evolutionary Advantage? “Positive psychology” research indicates that the kinder you are, the more likely you are to survive — and evolve. READ MORE
By Yasmin Anwar / UC Berkeley Fish Oil Supplements — Want PCBs With That? A lawsuit filed in California claims many popular fish oil companies knowingly sell products contaminated with high levels of toxic PCBs. READ MORE
By Rachel Cernansky / Planet Green Too Much Sex? No Such Thing — Why Sex Addiction Is Total B.S. The idea of sexual pleasure as a harmful addiction parallels the most perverse aspects of Western religious history. READ MORE
By Raymond J. Lawrence / CounterPunch Rise of the Superbugs: Why We Are Increasingly at Risk From Antibiotic-Resistant Diseases The evidence is overwhelming that these new superbugs are at least partially a result of dosing farm animals with subtherapeutic doses of antibiotics added to their feed. READ MORE
By Vanessa Barrington / EcoSalon Obama Calls for the Senate to Make a Simple Majority Vote on Health-Care Reform In a speech from the White House, President Obama called for Congress to pass health-care reform via reconciliation. READ MORE
By Lindsay Beyerstein / The Media Consortium EPA Drastically Underestimates Coal Waste Pollution’s Threat to Human and Environmental Health The EPA’s tally of coal ash contamination locations last year did not include an additional 31 sites that should have been included in the totals, a new study contends. READ MORE
By Joshua Frank / AlterNet A psychotherapist says depression can be debilitating — but that it’s also been largely created by doctors and drug companies as a medical condition. READ MORE
By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now! The Ghastly, Anti-Woman Logic of Rep. Bart Stupak — The Dem Who Wants to Kill Health-Care Reform Conservadem Bart Stupak says he — and 11 others — won’t vote for the Senate health care bill because its anti-abortion language doesn’t go far enough. Will he kill the bill? READ MORE
By Jessica Arons / The Nation
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