Health Care

August 20, 2015

“The health and economic security of more than 120,000 low-wage parents is at risk in the insurance coverage gap due to politics surrounding Medicaid expansion.” ~ Laila A. Bell, Director of Research and Data at NC Child It’s common sense: When families have parents who are insured, the entire...

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care Politics & Policy

August 14, 2015

Your top questions on marijuana--answered! 1. Tell me about the marijuana landscape The legalization of marijuana is growing. It is legal in some form (medical or recreation use) in 23 states and that number is expected to grow. With it come pot shops, ads for cannabis products in the newspaper,...

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Julie Weed

Health Care

August 12, 2015

When my son Aaron was just 28 months old, he started to stutter. Not the easy disfluency that most children will have for short periods. This was forced speech that came with a stomach-flex and neck strain. When most kids are bouncing along with bumpy speech, they don’t know they’re doing it, they...

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Nancy Hogshead-Makar

Health Care

August 12, 2015

Location, location, location. It’s one of the biggest concerns for nursing moms who plan to pump at work. The good news is that whether you work in a retail store, a restaurant, or an airplane hangar, there are ways of making space for you to pump. In some cases, it just requires a bit of...

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Nancy C. Lee

Health Care

August 11, 2015

Let’s see: Shop for school supplies…check. Make sure immunizations are up-to-date…check. Sign up for sports and music lessons…check. Talk about sexual abuse prevention…wait. What? I feel like such a grownup when I say it, but the summer has really flown by. We’re starting to make sure all the books...

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Allison Wedell Schumacher

Health Care

August 6, 2015

And we are off to a great start to National Breastfeeding Month! Anayah kicked things off on the blog by chatting with us about breastfeeding and paid leave . On Wednesday, we had a very informative chat about breastfeeding and work. Here's the Storify with all of the great tweets that were shared...

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Sili Recio

Health Care

August 3, 2015

Las Enfermedades del Corazón son la primera causa de muerte en la mujer en Estados Unidos, unas 6 veces mayor que el cáncer de seno y mayor que todos los tipos de cáncer combinados. Esto es particularmente importante en las mujeres latinas, ya que sólo una de cada tres está consciente que las...

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Nidia Sangines

Family Economic Security Health Care Paid Family Leave

August 1, 2015

And we’re off with National Breastfeeding Month 2015! Where conversations about breastfeeding normally start with infant feeding choices, this year’s events begin with attention to a critical factor affecting that choice: paid family leave. Convention suggests that by providing parents with...

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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka

Health Care

July 30, 2015

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Medicaid , the program that provides health coverage for low-income kids and families, as well as seniors and people with disabilities. Medicaid is funded jointly by the federal government and the states and provides cost-efficient and effective coverage for its...

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Judith Solomon

Health Care Politics & Policy

July 28, 2015

Why does my inbox have messages saying that Maine’s new law against shackling pregnant women is an “accidental win”? True, the governor of Maine let this and a number of other progressive bills become law without his signature, and then claimed to have vetoed them . But if activists hadn’t run such...

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