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Bishops Step Over the Line

February 23, 2012
Over and over we see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops confuse the right to exercise their religion with a right to impose their religion on Americans who don’t share it. This is not a subtle difference. And, as Bill Moyers points out in the context of their intransigence on access to birth...
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Barbara Coombs Lee

What Can We Do To Increase Breastfeeding Rates in the African American Community?

February 23, 2012
Recently MedStar Georgetown University Hospital became the first maternity facility in the nation’s capital (in fact the entire Washington Metropolitan area) to achieve elite designation as a Baby Friendly Hospital . As president of the D.C. Breastfeeding Coalition, I applaud this achievement. I...
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Sahira Long, MD, FAAP, IBCLC
Health Care

Wellness Wednesday: Free Preventive Services

February 23, 2012
Photo credit: Photo by Flickr user timojazz Great news! Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced last week that the Affordable Care Act has provided approximately 54 million Americans with at least one new free preventive service in 2011 through their private health insurance...
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Claire Moshenberg
Environmental Health

Mercury spewing from power plants -- again!!?

February 22, 2012
This might be a face kids put on to make their friends laugh, but it's never a face parents want to see for real. Respiratory illness is rampant in this country, with more than 7 million kids suffering from asthma. Yet, last week, pediatricians, nurses and families across the country had to stop...
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Sarah Francis
Environmental Health

Tips Tuesday: Reduce Toxic Chemicals in Your Car

February 22, 2012
Photo credit: Photo by Flickr user epSos.de Trying to avoid toxic chemicals? Take a survey of the different spaces you occupy every day. We've covered ways to reduce toxic chemicals in your home and in your office . Today we're covering another common space: Your car. Try these tips to reduce toxic...
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Claire Moshenberg

Nipples and Ninny: An African-American Mom's Breastfeeding Journey

February 21, 2012
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared at MyBrownBaby . -E.B. It was a no-brainer for me: All the books said I should breastfeed my baby because it was best for her that she would be stronger, faster, smarter, better for it. And so I rushed out and bought myself a fancy Medella breast pump...
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Denene Millner

Bessie! Bessie! Bessie! Three Women to Know

February 21, 2012
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in Ebony magazine. Many thanks to Dream Hampton for permission to re-publish. -E.B. That the Latin definition of triumvirate translates literally into "of three men" hasn't stopped my favorite triumvirate from being three Bessies: three very special...
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Environmental Health

Is There Arsenic in My Baby Formula?

February 21, 2012
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Last week’s findings of arsenic in organic brown rice syrup may be even more frightening to parents than last year’s discovery of the cancer-causing substance in apple juice . That’s because organic...
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Rachel Sarnoff
Open Flexible Work Health Care Paid Family Leave

Heavy Lifting: Pregnant Women are Forced to Carry an Extra Load in the Workforce

February 21, 2012
In the 1970s, after it became illegal to discriminate based on race, some employers responded by imposing high school education requirements for blue-collar jobs. Today, employers who want to keep women out of “men’s jobs” do something similar: they wait until workers get pregnant, and then deny...
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Joan C. Williams

Sex, Contraception, Motherhood & The Current Madness

February 21, 2012
Sex, freedom, religion, women's rights, motherhood, birth control, and politics. It's a volatile mix. And right now there's a growing drumbeat of attacks on universal access to full coverage for crucial contraceptive health care that cannot be ignored: The Panel: You've likely seen the picture that...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

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