- Shaming fat people into losing weight is the only way to solve obesity epidemic, leading health academic claims
- Obese who refuse to exercise 'could face benefits cut' in the UK
- Male Jurors More Likely To Find Fat Women Guilty, According to Depressing Study
- Coca-Cola weighs in on obesity fight
- Tax Soda? How About Making Fruits And Veggies Cheaper, Too?
- ObamaCare in Plain English: What it Means for You
- Rick Scott Under Fire For Inflating Cost Of Health Law's Medicaid Expansion
- Whole Foods CEO: Obamacare Is 'Like Fascism'
- Bachmann can't find a co-sponsor for her 'repeal Obamcare' bill
- Public Option Resurfaced By House Democrats As Deficit Reduction Measure
- Health Care Spending Target Could Save U.S. $2 Trillion Over The Next Decade, Study Finds
- Papa John's PR firm targets bloggers—"Papa John’s public relations firm has been tracking down bloggers who write posts about the pizza mogul’s comments on Obamacare for months and asking them to correct or remove their posts."
- First Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Cases Detected in North America
- 700 cases of flu prompt Boston to declare emergency—In related news, a study says that flu shots are only 59% effective in healthy adults.
- World Economic Forum Warns That Patents Are Making Us Lose The Race Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- Dengue is fastest-spreading tropical disease, WHO says
- How India Fought Polio — and Won
- Houston councilman votes to reject federal money for childhood vaccines—"I'm going to vote against this. You don't die from the flu."
- Joe Lastinger, Father Whose Child Died From Flu: 'We Paid Horrible Price' For Not Vaccinating
- Anti-vaccine book tells kids to embrace measles Salon
- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed—"We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing."
- Manic Nation: Dr. Peter Whybrow Says We’re Addicted to Stress—"'The computer is electronic cocaine for many people. Our brains are wired for finding immediate reward.' Which is why we can’t stop."
- How Aggressive Narcissism Explains Lance Armstrong—"Given his persistent lying and bullying, his arrogance and apparent indifference to the feelings of others, and the pain he inflicted on so many people, it's difficult to feel much compassion for Armstrong -- to even care to understand why he behaves the way he does. But let's try."
- Teacher claims discrimination over her fear of kids—"Maria C. Waltherr-Willard, 61, of Greenhills says the district in which she worked for 35 years discriminated against her when it reassigned her in 2010 from its high school to its junior high and then pressured her to resign."
- Yes, lead poisoning could really be a cause of violent crime—"It seems crazy, but the evidence about lead is stacking up. Behind crimes that have destroyed so many lives, is there a much greater crime?"
- Dealing with Depression: All Blacks Don't Cry
- Brown eyes appear more trustworthy than blue
- Dr. Oz: The Operator—"Is the most trusted doctor in America doing more harm than good?"
- The antioxidant myth is too easy to swallow—"People are hooked on the fallacy that 'antioxidant' is a byword for 'healthy' – perhaps because the truth is less appealing."
- Dismissed cancer patient gets her Redlands Jo-Ann's job back—The company reinstated her "due to the unique circumstances involved in this case," most probably the amount of negative PR they got for dismissing her in the first place.
- Conservative Think Tank Ranks Countries With Government-Run Health Care As The Freest In World
- Canadian 'gitchhiker' completes cross-country charity trip in only his underwear
