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Flawed Logic: Your Pre-Existing Condition Is Your Fault

January 11, 2012
Imagine my shock, when I recently found out that not everyone reads our blog. I will give you a moment to recover from this astounding revelation (person who religiously reads our blog). For the very few of you that don’t always read our blog, let me give you some insight into one of the many...
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Thao Nguyen
Environmental Health

What The National Children’s Study Means To You

January 10, 2012
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Is there a link between the environment and illnesses such as pediatric cancer, asthma, allergies and behavioral problems? According to the s cientists and doctors who advise Healthy Child Healthy...
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Rachel Sarnoff
Health Care

Introducing the Equity and the ACA Webinar Series

January 5, 2012
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has the potential to greatly improve the health of communities of color in California. Following the excellent turnout at our convening series in November, Seizing the Opportunity: Achieving Equity in Health Reform , many participants said they...
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Ellen Wu
Environmental Health Health Care Food!

Mad Libs for Mad Moms

January 5, 2012
If there was a Hall of Fame for road trip games, Mad Libs would be number one. A word nerd from the get-go, I loved these books of swiss-cheesed sentences, blank spaces waiting to be filled with the comedic stylings of my easily amused backseat gang (“The Hippo ate a copy machine and walked into a...
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Claire Moshenberg
Health Care

Good News From Kentucky!

January 5, 2012
2011 closed with good news out of Kentucky. On Friday Governor Steve Beshear refused to approve a Louisville hospital merger that threatened patient choice . Compassion & Choices, MergerWatch, the National Women's Law Center and other national advocacy organizations joined local activists to...
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Barbara Coombs Lee
Health Care

A dog's gentle death

January 4, 2012
Our family will always remember this holiday season as the time Sugar died. Sugar was a mixed breed, mostly lab/border-collie type. She exhibited the best character traits of every gene she carried and seemed to bear none of any breed’s drawbacks. She was a real credit to her species. A member of...
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Barbara Coombs Lee
Environmental Health Health Care Food!

Top 5 Tools for a Non-toxic Year

January 3, 2012
Happy new year! How are your new years resolutions going? Last week, we talked about a few ideas for non-toxic New Years resolutions . If you're trying one of these resolutions, testing a non-toxic resolution of your own, or just recommitting yourself to detoxing your life in the new year, these...
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Claire Moshenberg

Less than 24 hours. The time is now.

December 31, 2011
There are less than 24 hours until the end of this year--and the first official 2012 Presidential election nominating process is happening this coming Tuesday. The time is now. We need to move quickly to launch MomsVote 2012 to bring forward the voices (and power!) of women and moms in the national...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Right Now: Double Your Impact & Get A Gift!

December 28, 2011
WOW! The outpouring from MomsRising members to help launch MomsVote 2012 has been jaw-dropping. But we haven't reached our goal of $30,000 yet. Turbo charge MomsVote 2012: Today, your donation will be matched dollar for dollar, so your impact will be doubled, and your donation will enable us to...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Environmental Health Health Care Food!

2011: A Year of Non-toxic Tips

December 28, 2011
It can feel like a toxic world out there, but MomsRising is here to help. Every Tuesday on the MomsRising blog , you can find new information on how to eliminate dangerous chemicals and toxins that are in every day products. Topics have ranged from choosing sunscreen and beauty products, to making...
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Claire Moshenberg

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