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Got the flu? Got sick time to use?

January 30, 2013
Here at MomsRising, we work virtually--on the phone and on our computers. Somehow, that hasn't stopped us from passing around this mean winter bug that has made national news headlines the past two weeks. Every other day one of us was sending icky morning email updates about fevers and persistent...
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Health Care Gun Safety

Mental Health Care Must Trump Guns

January 30, 2013
The Newtown, Tucson and Virginia Tech “shooters” all chose guns over mental health care. So we debate gun control. But a true solution must involve a serious examination of our mental health system. Even if Adam Lanza, Jared Loughner and Seung-hui Cho had no access to guns, they still would have...
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Dora Wang, M.D.
Environmental Health Health Care

Victory for Moms! Tide Agrees to Reformulate!

January 29, 2013
You did it! Procter & Gamble has just agreed to reformulate Tide and Tide Free & Gentle to drastically reduce the levels of the cancer-causing chemical 1,4-dioxane! Learn more. In just one short year, you moved the biggest consumer product company on the planet to make this change. Together...
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Cassidy Randall

Groundhog's Day and Equal Pay

January 29, 2013
“Groundhog’s Day” is one of my absolute favorite movies. In the movie Bill Murray plays a TV weatherman who gets stuck in a time loop and is doomed to repeating the same day over and over again. Then he finally gets his act together and is able to move forward with his life. The movie is on my mind...
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Ruth Martin
Environmental Health Food!

Is Genetically Engineered Salmon Safe?

January 27, 2013
Frankenfish could be on your dinner plate by the end of the year. On December 21, at the very end of the last business day before Christmas week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly released its environmental assessment that found "no significant impact" from the controversial...
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Ocean Robbins
Health Care

How Big Food is targeting my toddler

January 27, 2013
"Dora, mama! Dora!" I'm walking with my 22-month-old daughter through Target, and I'm not surprised to hear her yell the name of her favorite cartoon character, Dora the Explorer. What does surprise me is that we're not in the toy aisle, or the book aisle, or even the clothing section -- we're in...
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Pamela Mejia
Gun Safety

Voices from the March on Washington for Gun Control

January 27, 2013
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Gloria Pan
Gun Safety

The Visible Groundswell: March on Washington for Gun Control

January 26, 2013
We all knew there was a toxic strain of gun culture in American society, a love of guns beyond reason and uncompromising in its advocacy of firearms for all. We all knew, but occupied by families and work, and distracted by other worries like healthcare or the economy, we could and did pretend that...
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Gloria Pan
Food!

Report from the Field: Creative Strategies Help Ensure School Meal Success

January 25, 2013
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, signed into law in December 2010, charged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) with updating school food nutrition standards to reflect the latest nutrition science. Updates to the nutrition standards for school meals went into effect at the beginning of the...
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Kate Uslan

Moms, Death Row and Maryland

January 24, 2013
Imagine if you were the mother of someone who was found innocent, by irrefutable new DNA evidence, after having been wrongly imprisoned and placed on death row for a crime he/she did not commit. For any mother, it would be horrifying. Shockingly, death sentences for innocent people are not rare...
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Monifa Bandele

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