Health Care

September 12, 2012

Keep the little artists in your life healthy and safe with a few simple art supply swaps and DIY fixes! Smocks: Smocks can help preserve clothes, and reduce skin contact with chemicals from art supplies. Make sure the smock you choose is the safest: CHEJ recommends using fabric smocks to avoid PVC...

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Claire Moshenberg

Food! Health Care Blog Carnivals

September 6, 2012

Are there vending machines lurking in the cafeteria or hallways of your children’s school? If so, you may want to learn as much about what is in those machines as you do about the books your child will be reading in the classroom this year. A study published in Pediatrics found children who live in...

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Margie Kelly

Podcast Health Care

September 5, 2012

Breastfeeding. By now, we all know that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg supports it due to his recent policy to make breastfeeding a priority in New York City hospitals. We also know that with his support, he ignited a firestorm of controversy that made headlines across the nation. What could...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Health Care

September 5, 2012

Imagine yourself the son or daughter of a grievously ill octogenarian. Your mom or dad suffered a catastrophic event and has been in an ICU, barely conscious, for two weeks. You understand organs are shutting down, but you struggle to understand the medical jargon or the purpose of tubes and...

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Barbara Coombs Lee

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

September 4, 2012

Moms made waves this summer for kids' health! Your hard work helped push the FDA to remove BPA from baby bottles and sippy cups. Help us keep up the MOMentum by demanding that the FDA also ban BPA from infant formula packaging! Why ban it from infant formula packaging? We know Bisphenol-A (BPA) is...

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Claire Moshenberg

Health Care Food!

September 1, 2012

My family loves to grill, and now that we live in temperate North Carolina, we’re grilling more than ever. Everything seems to taste better – even vegetables, my son Christopher says – when touched by our backyard grill. I’ve grilled peaches and slices of pineapple this year for a healthy dessert...

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Barbara Kowalcyk

Health Care

August 31, 2012

People say the third time is the charm. Imprisoned women and their allies in California certainly hope so . “Someday, people will look back and be shocked that California would routinely shackle pregnant women,” says Karen Shain, Policy Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC...

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Rachel Roth

Health Care Food!

August 29, 2012

The new school year is a great time to start new healthy habits. And those habits can have some pretty impressive academic rewards: Did you know that kids who are physically active get better grades? Not only that, but regular physical activity for kids is also linked to a lower risk of obesity and...

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Claire Moshenberg

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

August 24, 2012

It’s that time of year when parents are busy with school shopping and taking our kids to the doctor for back-to-school checkups. If you have an older teen, you may want to consider adding one more task to your to-do list: talking about sex and contraception and helping him or her get the...

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Leslie Kantor

Health Care

August 23, 2012

By Sabrina Corlette, Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reform When Joshua Lemacks of Richmond, Virginia takes the field for one of his Little League games, the other team may not be overly impressed with his batting average stats, but those who know him realize that he has beaten...

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