- Social Media Sites Fight "Thinspo"—"Instagram and other websites take aim at content that triggers or promotes eating disorders."
- Modelling scouts target anorexia patients
- Goodbye To The King Size: Mars To Downsize Candy Bars In 2013
- Airbus Is Installing Special Big Seats For Fat People — And Shrinking All Other Seats
- People in the South are not so fat after all -- and they lie less
- Vietnam bans short, fat Hanoi traffic police
- Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss?
- Big Pharma Company Jacks Up Price of Overdose Life Saver by 1100%: Now, More People Will Die
- Big Pharma made $711 bln overcharging seniors and disabled
- FDA Let Drugs Approved on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market
- Why Chemotherapy That Costs $70,000 in the U.S. Costs $2,500 in India—"By rejecting patent applications, developing countries have kept down the costs of much-needed medications. Can they continue to do so without harming efforts to develop new drugs?"
- U.S. consumers pay more for drugs
- About the Obamacare 'train wreck'
- The Reason Health Care Is So Expensive: Insurance Companies
- Inside India's 'No-Frills' Hospitals, Where Heart Surgery Costs Just $800
- Checks Find Unsafe Practices at Compounding Pharmacies—"Federal regulators said they had found problems like black particles floating in vials, rust and mold in clean rooms and improper air flow at about 30 compounding pharmacies." NYT
- Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story—"The dead babies. The exploited women. The racism. The numerous governmental failures. It is thoroughly newsworthy."
- Man dies after pea trapped in lung diagnosed as cancer—"An English family grieving over a man's death has lashed out at doctors after they confused a pea in his lung for a cancerous tumour."
- Obama budget includes $235 million in new mental health spending
- Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country
- Mentally ill patients in Indonesia held in chains
- News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier—"News is bad for your health. It leads to fear and aggression, and hinders your creativity and ability to think deeply. The solution? Stop consuming it altogether." In related... news: Breaking News is Broken.
- TV Is Heroin Crossed With Hypnosis
- Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression Can Be Contagious—Misery loves company.
- Patient people mull over future rewards
- Sleep: Everything You Need To Know
- The end of sleep?—"New technologies are emerging that could radically reduce our need to sleep - if we can bear to use them."
- Is sleep the new sex?—"When we we aren't doing it, we're talking about it. But we also love to boast about how little we need." Salon
- Can you train yourself to get by on less sleep?
- Why teenagers really do need an extra hour in bed
- Less sleep leads to more eating and more weight gain, according to new CU-Boulder study
- Study: Listening to Certain Sounds Seems to Improve Sleep—"Participants played 'pink noise' that was synchronized to their brain rhythms slept more deeply and had increased memory retention."
- Clicky noises may help you memorize during sleep
- What Is Paradoxical Intention?
- Rural risk for sleep disorder Scots
- Spain Holds First Annual Siesta Championship
- The Privatization of Water: Nestlé Denies that Water is a Fundamental Human Right
- How Monsanto Went From Selling Aspirin to Controlling Our Food Supply—"Monsanto controls our food, poisons our land, and influences all three branches of government."
- Judge: Iowa State U. Must Shield 'Pink Slime' Data—"A judge has blocked Iowa State University from releasing documents about food safety research conducted for the beef-processing company that makes the product dubbed 'pink slime' by critics." NYT
- What government tests found in your meat—"When you shop for turkey burgers for dinner tonight, you may be buying more than meat for your dinner. A federal investigation found 'Superbugs' in meat test."
- The Curse of Fertilizer—"If we don't watch out, agriculture could destroy our planet. Here's how to grow all the food we need with fewer chemicals."
- Horsemeat scandal: Minister urged to reveal Sodexo supplier
- Mislabelled fish slip into Europe's menus
