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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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Kristin Schafer

Environmental Health Food!

04/04/12

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s motto, located right on their website homepage, is “protecting and promoting your health” however their recent decision not to ban the use of BPA in food products sends the message that they are more concerned with protecting the pockets of the chemical...

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Michelle Noehren

Health Care

04/04/12

Want to know how health reform helps women? Not sure what preventive services to ask for? Unclear on which women's health services will be available this August? We've got answers! A few weeks ago, the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative hosted an informative Facebook chat with MomsRising about the...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Food!

04/03/12

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org So many news stories that relate to children’s environmental health, it’s hard to keep up! The FDA Rejects BPA Ban in Packaging Late in the day last Friday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

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Rachel Sarnoff

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

04/03/12

Getting ready for Easter this weekend? Do it the nontoxic way! There are easy, affordable, nontoxic alternatives for everything from egg dyes to Easter sweets. And you'll be in good company: Last year, the White House started making the annual White House Easter Egg Roll greener by using...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Food!

04/03/12

I love Seder, and I would never want to give up any of the traditional pieces of the meal, or any of the traditions my family shares. Luckily, I can make Seder less toxic without losing any of the components that I love, and you can too! A few simple changes will drastically reduce toxic chemicals...

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Claire Moshenberg

Open Flexible Work

04/03/12

Cross-posted at Out of My Head An article on Salon.com made the rounds yesterday about returning to a 40 hour work week . Sound familiar? The new ideal was to unleash “internal entrepreneurs” — Randian übermenschen who would devote all their energies to the corporation’s success, in expectation of...

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Jennifer Spencer