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Milestones: Five Years Cancer-Free, Five Years of Congressional Women’s Softball

Posted May 13th, 2013 by

It was shortly after my 41st birthday, and only 6 months after a clean mammogram, that I felt a lump while doing a routine self-exam in the shower. I was familiar enough with my body to know that something felt wrong, and sure enough, my doctor confirmed it with those devastating words – I had [...]

Posted Under: H: Health Care

What Immigrant Moms Want for Mother’s Day

Posted May 10th, 2013 by

Like most moms, Mother’s Day for me is an opportunity to celebrate with my children and family, and reflect upon how deeply I cherish motherhood. While supporting our children as they grow and adapt to the world is joyful, we moms face so many challenges along the way — the pain of watching our child [...]

A Family Remains Torn Apart This Mother’s Day

Posted May 7th, 2013 by

Jennifer Martinez will not be celebrating this Mother’s Day because her family remains torn apart. Here is Jennifer’s story:   “A little over a year, my family was ripped apart when my husband of 16 years was suddenly taken away and forced to leave the country. My husband went to work one morning, as always, [...]

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Got Kids? Skip the Pesticides. Doctors’ orders!

Posted April 30th, 2013 by

If your pediatrician recommends eating more fruits and vegetables, what they really mean is to eat organic fruits and vegetables. Last fall the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) published a report on pesticides that can be summed up in just one sentence: “Children’s exposures to pesticides should be limited as much as possible.” The report, [...]

Posted Under: H: Environmental Health

Antimicrobial Drug Resistance is Something We Can Not Afford to Ignore

Posted April 12th, 2013 by

As a mother, I care deeply about the food that my family eats.  And as a lawmaker, I care deeply about New York’s farmers who work tirelessly to supply our country with a wholesome and safe food supply.  That’s why, as a member of the Agriculture Committee, I’ve devoted much of my time in the [...]

Posted Under: Nutrition & Food

The Power of You

Posted April 12th, 2013 by

Mountains of hard science demonstrate that it is critical to curb antibiotic overuse on industrial farms, but nothing is quite as convincing as the real-life stories of those living with the consequences of lax regulation. That’s what makes Supermoms Against Superbugs Advocacy Day so important. On Tuesday, April 16, more than 50 moms, dads, and other caregivers with personal [...]

Posted Under: Nutrition & Food

Reps. Waxman and Slaughter Introduce Legislation to Better Monitor Antibiotic Use in Animals

Posted April 12th, 2013 by

Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman and Rules Committee Ranking Member Louise M. Slaughter introduced legislation to provide better information on the amount and use of antibiotics and other antimicrobials given to animals raised for human consumption, H.R. 820, the Delivering Antimicrobial Transparency in Animals (DATA) Act. “The widespread use of [...]

Posted Under: Nutrition & Food

The Facts Are Clear: Animals and Superbugs

Posted April 12th, 2013 by

As a young student studying microbiology at the University of Kentucky, I immersed myself in the study of antibiotic-resistance.  When I wrote my Master’s thesis in 1954, I wrote at length about a danger that continues to be a growing threat today: antibiotics becoming ineffective against the evolution of modern disease. Even then, the laws [...]

Posted Under: Nutrition & Food

Immigration Policy Reform Can’t Ignore Women

Posted April 11th, 2013 by

Women comprise only 18 percent of Congress. Women comprise 0 percent of the “Gang of Eight” Senators who are drafting immigration reform policy right now. Yet, over 50 percent of all immigrants are women; and if you add children, then that group accounts for two-thirds of all immigrants to our country. Wonder who might be [...]

Posted Under: Immigration

A Head on Desk Moment: A MomsRising Blog Carnival on Equal Pay

Posted April 9th, 2013 by

I’m having a head/desk day. You know the kind; where you just want to bang your head on your desk because you’re so frustrated. Why? Because today is Equal Pay Day – the day that marks how far into 2013 women have to work to earn what men earned for the same work in 2012. And at the rate we’re going, left [...]

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