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11/12/10

Despite millions of dollars being poured into anti-health reform advertisements and mailings, the poll did not find a mandate for action one way or another. The poll also found that several key provisions of the Affordable Care Act remain very popular, even among those who support repeal of all or parts of the law.

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Say Ahhh!

Environmental Health

11/11/10

Crossposted from GenerationGreen.org Have you seen the Story of Stuff ? Millions of people have viewed Annie Leonard’s viral web video highlighting the health and environmental impacts of our consumer culture. Now, Annie returns with the Story of Electronics , a new video questioning the “designed...

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Charles Margulis

11/11/10

Recently I did a radio interview about working moms and talked about why I stopped working. My closest friends said I downplayed my nervous breakdown, making it sound like a really bad day (instead of a really bad year). It's true that I played it down. I was embarrassed. It's one thing to write...

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Katrina Alcorn

Health Care

11/11/10

Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., President of the Association of American Medical Colleges, called for American medical schools to lead a transformation of American medicine, during a speech given at the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine convention, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 in Marco Island, Florida. “This...

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Dora Wang, M.D.

11/11/10

A child with a pre-existing health condition is like a "burned down" house that shouldn't be insured?! [1] Opponents of health care reform are ramping up the rhetoric and working hard to roll back important new health care protections--like ending pre-existing condition exclusions. For example,...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

11/10/10

My 7-year-old son, Klaus, has been battling a rare cancer called sarcoma for over 3 years. And, as a MomsRising member from Boulder, Colorado, I fought for health care reform--and I'll keep fighting for it so all kids who need care, can get care. Our family sent letters to Congress and stayed up...

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Tracy Heiman

Immigration

11/10/10

by Marcia D. Greenberger , Co-President, National Women's Law Center We all recognize the stereotype of the unmarried father--absent, uninterested, and uninvolved in his kids' lives. But the cliché that unmarried fathers never have meaningful relationships with their children--just because they...

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Thao Nguyen

Childcare & Early Education

11/10/10

I recently talked with a mom whose seven-year-old son, Jacob, would become enamored with girls at school and wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. Once he fell for a girl (usually a year or two older) he’d transform into a little stalker, relentlessly wanting to play with them, constantly trying to...

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Joe Newman

Childcare & Early Education

11/09/10

While the election is still being pondered by political pundits, real life goes on... including the struggle of real life parents to get affordable access to quality early care and education for their kids so they can get to work. But that struggle may get a lot tougher. In the next few weeks,...

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Sarah Francis

Health Care Food!

11/08/10

Today, the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University released Fast Food FACTS , a comprehensive study of fast-food nutrition and marketing to youths. There are a couple of findings that are particularly striking to me—as a mom, as a doctor and as someone who’s working to improve...

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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA