Health Care

February 21, 2013

Lately, I’ve been getting the feeling that too much is being asked of mothers. Yes, we are notorious multi-taskers and play into the Supermom archetype, but when you look at the political, social and economic landscape, the expectations upon mothers, I fear, is reaching tipping point status. What’s...

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Kimberly Seals Allers

Health Care

February 21, 2013

It’s amazing how much technology has advanced in just 15 years. Back in the mid-1990s, the internet was new and everyone was still learning how to use it. Flash forward to today, and you might be reading this blog on your phone! While enormous medical and technological advancements have been made...

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Ellen Wu

Environmental Health Health Care

February 20, 2013

A new report from Women's Voices for the Earth, Secret Scents: How Hidden Fragrance Allergens Harm Public Health , finds that millions of people are affected by skin allergies caused by chemicals in fragrance. In fact, allergic reactions to fragrance chemicals are common, and have increased...

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Cassidy Randall

Health Care

February 15, 2013

February marks American Heart Month, a nationwide initiative to raise awareness in the effort to combat heart disease and educate communities on prevention and treatment options. Heart-related illness is still the leading cause of death in the United States, with one in every three deaths resulting...

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Donna Edwards

Environmental Health Health Care

February 14, 2013

The Smart on Pesticides Maryland coalition recently commissioned a poll to learn what Maryland voters’ attitudes towards pesticides are. Guess what? It found that a whopping eight out of 10 voters said they are concerned about the risk of pesticides to their families’ health. (I want to meet the two out of 10 who are not concerned!) When informed about the links to chronic illnesses and environmental problems, that number rose to 92 percent.

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Ruth Berlin

Health Care

February 13, 2013

[Cross-posted from the Rio Arriba Community Health Council Blog. ] Recently, after months of silence, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez became one of several Republicans to blur the Right's anti-socialist line in the sand by adopting Medicaid expansion. As New Mexico is surpassed only by Texas in...

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Lauren Reichelt

Environmental Health Health Care

February 13, 2013

Photo Credit: Jacqueline Argote – Zach Behar Films WATCH THE VIDEO Uh oh…. The nonprofit corporate watchdog As You Sow just found nanoparticles in the Dunkin Donuts they tested! How they got in there and why they're in there is not well understood. But what is known is that the tiny titanium...

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Andy Behar

Health Care

February 5, 2013

“Where do babies come from?” That perfectly normal question from children has been striking fear in the hearts of some parents since our culture started allowing children to be seen AND heard. The question sometimes seems to come too soon ( why are you thinking about that already? ) and almost...

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Leslie Kantor

Environmental Health Health Care

February 4, 2013

In 1990, when I lived in Los Angeles, my 4-year old son and I were both poisoned by the aerial spraying of malathion. The state had sprayed vast residential areas in an attempt to eradicate the Mediterranean fruit fly—a devastating pest that threatened California’s multi-billion dollar agriculture...

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Ruth Berlin

Health Care Childcare & Early Education

January 31, 2013

Yesterday a friend posted a link to a Facebook group I'm in about Jaielyn, a high school sophomore in Delaware whose school won't let her pump or store breast milk at school. I read the article and my head spun. I've been here before. I got pregnant at the end of my sophomore year of high school...

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