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05/18/12

Since 2009, we have seen millions of Americans benefit from Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act). Obamacare is lowering the cost of care, expanding access to care and improving the quality of care. There are many things we are thankful for, like the fact that insurance companies can't kick sick kids...

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Serena Woods

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

05/18/12

Detoxing your home shouldn't be a chore. Make it a party instead! As a busy parent, you have a lot on your mind, and the last thing you want to worry about is exposing your baby to harmful chemicals in your own home. But it’s not always easy to figure out where those toxic chemicals might be...

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Cassidy Randall

Immigration

05/18/12

Cross-Posted at America's Voice : “Russian Women are no longer the best kept secret of the cold war” notes the website of Encounters International , the mail-order bride company that is lobbying hard for the passage of the scary Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) -- the...

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Tramonte Lynn

05/18/12

Sara, the mother of seven-year-old Aiden told me her son was complaining that his friend of several years, Noah, a boy a year or two older, had been bullying him. Apparently, Noah had pushed him into a closet where he and another boy hit him. This had happened a few times and always out of view of...

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Joe Newman

Health Care

05/17/12

Hitting theaters this week: What to Expect When You’re Expecting , Hollywood’s humorous take on the trials and travails of pregnancy and parenting. According to the trailer, the big screen comedy features five couples whose “lives are turned upside down by the challenges of impending parenthood.”...

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A Better Balance

Environmental Health

05/16/12

Part of my job at Pesticide Action Network is keeping track of the latest research about how pesticides are harming children’s health . This has kept me too busy of late, as studies seem to be coming fast and furious linking pesticides with childhood asthma, autism , birth defects, cancer and more...

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Kristin Schafer

05/16/12

Re-posted with author permission from the Huffington Post . Americans, or at least the chattering class, have gotten all riled up about motherhood twice in the past few weeks. First, there was the kerfuffle between Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen and Ann Romney about whether Mrs. Romney, a stay-...

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Ann O'Leary

Health Care

05/16/12

Happy National Women's Health Week! This is a whole week dedicated to the health concerns of women and the new opportunities for better health that the Affordable Care Act offers women. Here's a brief description from Womenshealth.gov: "Women often serve as caregivers for their families, putting...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Health Care

05/16/12

Like many women of her generation, Sue was careful to get prenatal care and watch her weight gain as her doctor advised. In the early 1960s there were no warnings to avoid smoking or alcohol during pregnancy and no information about the potential hazards of environmental chemicals, either for Sue’s...

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Mary Pittman

05/15/12

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org TIME raised a ruckus recently with a profile of “attachment parenting” guru Dr. Bill Sears, highlighted by a cover photo of a mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son, according to the...

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Rachel Sarnoff