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04/11/12

Concerned about junk food in schools? Want to get the inside scoop on upcoming USDA action to improve the nutritional quality of foods sold in schools? Or want to participate in our upcoming blog carnival on school foods and not sure what to write? Bring your questions, comments and concerns to: No...

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Monifa Bandele

04/11/12

As I was preparing to write this post about the upcoming We Belong Together delegation to Birmingham, Alabama, I came across a horrifying and upsetting story from Wyoming about a mother who killed herself and her daughter after being targeted in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. “...

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Miriam Yeung

Immigration

04/11/12

This article originally appeared at RH Reality Check . Araceli doesn’t go out alone anymore. She is frightened of ongoing harassment by local police, whom she used to trust to protect her. Trini drops her two children off at school every morning unsure if she will be there at pickup time. Other...

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Mallika Dutt

Environmental Health Health Care

04/11/12

Getting ready to set up a nursery? Make it as safe and nontoxic as possible with a few important green swaps when it comes to decor, furniture, bedding, and toys! Photo credit: Photo by Flickr user courosa Paint: Avoid VOCs (volatile organic compounds) by using low or no VOC paints. After the room...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health

04/10/12

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org There was a time when doctors told pregnant mothers it was okay to smoke and drink alcohol because their babies were protected. Obviously, now we know otherwise—but many women are still misinformed...

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Rachel Sarnoff

Environmental Health

04/10/12

From ages one to seven, my daughter Cole had severe asthma. There were long periods when she and I would be out of commission one week out of four -- she too sick to go to daycare and I at home to take care of her. At the time, we lived in Tokyo, Japan, and I have vivid memories of hunkering down...

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Gloria Pan

04/09/12

By Sonji Wilkes, Mother Originally published by the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative My son Thomas was born in 2003. After his circumcision, he continued to bleed. Within a day, my husband Nathan and I were told that our newborn son had severe hemophilia, a genetic blood clotting disorder. A...

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Ashley Wheeland

04/06/12

This, in a nutshell, is Facebook’s problem : In a few weeks, when Facebook goes public, it will not have a single woman on its board. It’s not as if this problem will be solved by adding a single woman to the board. But it’s an important step, and one Mark Zuckerberg should take now. Mark...

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Nita Chaudhary

Environmental Health

04/06/12

Take the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (Collaborative) consumer survey , and enter the raffle for a $50 gift certificate! The Collaborative knows that consumers consider a variety of factors when making purchasing choices, especially when those choices can impact their or their...

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Catherine Porter

Environmental Health

04/05/12

It's been the official mantra of pesticide companies for decades: "The dose makes the poison." While it makes intuitive sense — you'd think that the more of chemical you're exposed to, the sicker you'll get — the science has, in fact, been saying otherwise for years. A team of 12 scientists...

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