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09/20/10

Honestly, health reform feels so last year. The effort to pass reform was epic, with so many near-death and nail-bitter moments, my political junky self was so ready to move on. A year ago, the town hall protests about health reform were all I could think about but today, I’m thinking more about...

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Ashley Boyd

Blog Carnivals

09/20/10

As we mark the six-month anniversary of the passage of health reform, families have much to celebrate today as several key provisions of the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act go into effect for children. While there are a wide array of opinions on both sides of the aisle on the new law...

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Lisa Shapiro

Health Care Blog Carnivals

09/20/10

September 23 is the day that an important part of the new health care law- a provision that allows young adults to stay on their parent's insurance until age 2- becomes law. It's the day that many young Americans will gain the security and peace of mind that comes with knowing you can get covered...

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Aaron Smith

Environmental Health Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

09/20/10

I am a mother. I am lots of other things but as society continues to discount and undervalue this role, it is easy to get frustrated and not claim it as loudly as I should. The world talks about how important mothers are. Yet often mothers are the last ones on the list to be asked for their opinion...

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Chrysula Winegar

09/19/10

My blog, by the way, is MotherTalkers . LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- On Saturday, I had the privilege to participate on a panel discussion at the Latino2 Conference , which took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Hosted by the non-profit group Latinos in Social Media , Latino2 is an event to...

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Elisa Batista

Environmental Health

09/17/10

It seems that sometimes I can’t turn around without hearing another story about lead popping up in some children’s PVC product. Plastics make it possible, right ? Last week, CNN reported that new testing by Consumer Reports magazine found elevated levels of lead in children’s vinyl rain coats...

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Mike Schade

Environmental Health Health Care

09/16/10

The following awesome letter to parents and grandparents was written by Nancy Myers, who works at the nonprofit organization, Science and Environmental Health Network , www.sehn.org . We are among the many people now trying to figure out how to stop the toxic assault on our children. If you, dear...

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Alice Shabecoff

Environmental Health Health Care

09/16/10

Moms know that the ads we see are often the front lines for whether a product gets bought or ignored. A large and increasing number of greener moms may read up on blogs, read reports and articles, and try to look up chemical names of material safety data sheets, but not everyone does this. Many...

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Cassidy Randall

Environmental Health Food!

09/16/10

It's hard enough to get my picky preschooler to eat healthy foods without also having to keep on top of the regular recalls of unsafe foods (like the recent salmonella tainted eggs debacle). It shouldn't be this hard to keep our families healthy! But it is. Each year in the U.S., more 76 million...

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Sarah Francis

Childcare & Early Education

09/16/10

Because the achievement gap is a theme I am passionate about and often pops up at my blog, MotherTalkers , I thought I would highlight a quick story on the racial disparity in school suspensions. From the New York Times : "In many of the nation’s middle schools, black boys were nearly three times...

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Elisa Batista