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Gender (rating): A pre-existing condition?

As nails continue to be hammered into the public option coffin, I am baffled at the professed public’s willingness to trust the health insurance industry. After all, this is the group that brought us gender-rating. Gender rating is a practice where insurance companies charge women more than men for...

The Foxes Guarding the Chickens: BPA, EPA & the Chemical Makers

This week would have been a great occasion to have a camera crew at the National Institutes of Health, to capture EPA officials meeting with the densest gathering ever of the cream of America’s toxic chemical producers and users. They came together – with no sign that the new administration had...

Societal Barriers to Breastfeeding

When people think of breastfeeding difficulties, the things that probably come to mind are supply issues, bad latch, cracked nipples, constant feedings, and the like. Certainly, there are women who are afflicted by those difficulties and who cannot overcome them. But I believe the societal barriers to breastfeeding (propagated by the kyriarchy) have a much more significant impact on breastfeeding rates than the medical or technical issues.

Urgent -- CA Toxics Bill Needs Your Help Now!

The California State Assembly has until today to pass a bill, SB 797, that would ban the toxic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) from baby products like bottles and formula cans. As the Los Angeles Times noted today , the formula and packaging industry have launched a ferocious campaign against this bill...