Stories by Heather Gehlert
Heather Gehlert is a managing editor at AlterNet.
Medical misdiagnosis is alarmingly common and potentially deadly. AlterNet readers discuss this and other pitfalls of America's broken health system.
Posted on Dec 27, 2008
Sarah Palin may be more of a threat to Obama than Democrats are recognizing. Dismissing her would be just as dangerous as dismissing women voters.
Posted on Aug 30, 2008
Author Stacy Malkan reveals the dangerous truth about everyday products we put in our hair and on our skin.
Posted on Oct 25, 2007
A conversation with human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro on the coastal city's violence and abuses -- and her lifelong mission to combat them.
Posted on May 3, 2007
Is this a legitimate issue or has feminism gone too far?
Posted on Feb 28, 2007
AlterNet readers sound off about risks young women face in bars and nightclubs, the "she-asked-for-it" mentality, and who, if anyone, is a victim.
Posted on Jan 4, 2007
In her new book,
Intervention, former NY Times technology columnist Denise Caruso talks about the risks of life on a genetically engineered planet.
Posted on Jan 3, 2007
