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5 DIY Nontoxic Baby Care Products

February 29, 2012
Photo credit: Photo by Flickr user Will Nickelson Great news: Nontoxic baby care products don't have to be expensive! Organic, nontoxic, or even fragrance free items for our little ones can veer towards the pricey side. Luckily, there are easy, affordable DIY solutions for many commonly used baby...
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Claire Moshenberg
Health Care

Welcoming Children to the World with Health Care Coverage

February 28, 2012
Cathy Hope edits Say Ahhh! A Children's Health Policy Blog by Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families By Cathy Hope, Georgetown University Center for Children and Families NPR reporter Nina Totenberg tells the story of how Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan briefly met her...
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Blunt Attack on Health Reform

February 28, 2012
You've got to be kidding us! The attacks on full access to birth control for everyone continue in Congress--and, in fact, the attacks are escalating beyond birth control to all women's health care, and to all health care really. It's ridiculous. What's going on, anyway? U.S. Senator Roy Blunt...
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Ashley Boyd
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Blog Carnival- Connecting Kids to Coverage and Text4Baby: A New Partnership that Clicks!

February 28, 2012
They say that timing is everything. If that’s true, doesn’t it make sense to tell someone about how to sign up for health insurance when she needs it the most? And, when we’re enrolling a family in a health insurance program, shouldn’t we help them understand how to use those benefits to ensure...
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Cindy Mann
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The National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition: Partnering to Provide Health Information and Coverage

February 28, 2012
Having a baby is a health journey like no other and it’s not easy. The National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB) has been working for the past 30 years to bring together organizations and individuals committed to making this journey as healthy and happy as it can be for mothers,...
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Sarah Ingersoll
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Text4Baby and Johnson & Johnson: A public-private partnership for public health

February 28, 2012
The National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition is grateful to Johnson & Johnson for its ongoing support of the text4baby program. As the founding sponsor and a key driving force behind the program, Johnson & Johnson provided and continues to provide critical support, allowing us to...
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Sarah Ingersoll
Blog Carnivals

Using Technology to Connect in New Ways in Illinois

February 28, 2012
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project , 85% of all Americans 18 years and older own a cell phone; of these users, nearly a quarter (72%) of them “text”. A July 2011 report shows that nearly one-third of all adults are “smart phone” users. Given that these statistics are only...
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Kathy Chan
Health Care Blog Carnivals

Building Blocks for Healthy Babies!

February 28, 2012
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that over 11,000 babies are born every day in the US, and the Massachusetts Health Care For All (HCFA) wants to do its part and help these babies grow up healthy. Our goal is to provide some of the building blocks to help as many Massachusetts babies as possible to...
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Dayanne Leal
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Enrolling more children into health coverage gets them one step closer to better, life-long development

February 28, 2012
Today, America’s children face the prospect of growing up less healthy, having more debilitating and costly chronic health conditions as adults and living shorter lives than their parents. While current health care costs for children are small in relation of those for adults, the future costs for...
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Amy Swanson
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Making the Online Connection For Children's Health

February 28, 2012
Think about all the things we do online in our personal and professional lives – banking, buying, registering, applying, shopping, shipping, tracking, blogging – all without leaving the same chair. In spite of these advances in efficiency and customer service, we don’t make it efficient or easy for...
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