Health Care

January 20, 2010

Last week the New York Times reported that the Food and Drug Administration is now willing to look into the health hazards of Bisphenol-A (BPA). Given that BPA is present in the lining of infant formula cans, the article tells us the FDA recommends that nursing mothers continue breastfeeding for...

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Mary Olivella

Health Care Food!

January 15, 2010

This week is the one year anniversary of the PCA outbreak when Salmonella - contaminated peanut products caused a major, multi-state foodborne-illness outbreak -- an outbreak that occurred as a result of outdated and ineffective regulation and oversight by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

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Donna Rosenbaum

Health Care

January 14, 2010

by Lisa Codispoti , Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center We are closer to adopting health reform than ever before in history. Now that the Senate passed their health reform legislation, the next step on the road to reform is for Senate and House leaders to work out differences between their...

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Thao Nguyen

Health Care Family Economic Security

January 13, 2010

Healthcare reform is now REALLY almost at the finish line, with a vote expected this week. Hundreds of thousands of families are waiting to find out if reform will actually: - help out their family budgets, - ensure that their health coverage is both accessible and affordable, - offer strong...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Health Care

January 13, 2010

For the first time in American history, adults do not believe that our nation's children will have the opportunities they had to live a happy, healthy, and prosperous life. And over the past five years, the response from our nation's leaders has been to decrease the share of our national investment...

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Bruce Lesley

Health Care

December 23, 2009

Thanks for standing up for Sophie and all the other children in need of healthcare reform. Over the weekend, a number of last minute improvements on children's health coverage were made to the Senate health bill because of the amazing efforts of MomsRising members and other great advocates for...

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Donna Norton

Health Care

December 21, 2009

Age discrimination in the form of age rating, the practice of allowing private insurers to charge people higher premiums solely based on age, is wrong. And Congress is buying the false argument from the insurance companies that without age rating, insurance will be too expensive for younger people...

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Natale Zimmer

Health Care

December 21, 2009

You asked, she answered! Last month, we collected your questions on health reform for Senator Patty Murray. Senator Murray responded personally to MomsRising members, creating her video response that you can see right here: We're grateful that Senator Murray took time out to speak directly with us...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Health Care Food!

December 21, 2009

Here is the round up for this week. A lot of interesting articles and concern for food safety, which is good. Remember, to receive articles and food safety information and recalls sign up for our S.T.O.P. E-alerts . Have a great weekend! 26,500 school cafeterias lack required inspections USA Today...

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Donna Rosenbaum

Environmental Health Health Care

December 14, 2009

There’s nothing quite like a fresh, juicy strawberry. What many people don’t know is that some of the nastiest pesticides are used in strawberry fields, and the powers-that-be in California are considering a pesticide that's such a "good" carcinogen it's often used in cancer experiments in the lab.

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