Health Care

April 28, 2011

Over this past year, we've learned more and more about the problem of toxic chemicals. In 2010, the President's Cancer Panel showed a link between exposures to toxic chemicals and rising cancer rates. (1) Six months later, new research from the Journal of Pediatrics showed that a recent rise in...

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Claire Moshenberg

Health Care

April 27, 2011

This year’s annual LGBT Health Awareness Week, sponsored by the National Coalition for LGBT Health, was full of exciting news. The Department of Health and Human Services released a directive outlining a wide array of new and existing initiatives focused on the health of LGBT people and their...

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Jeff Krehely

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

April 25, 2011

When Mother’s Day was first celebrated, it was a call for women to unite against war. It was a day of activism founded upon the belief that change must come from work built across generations. As we celebrate Mother’s Day and honor our mothers, we are reminded that sustained social change depends...

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Yifat Susskind

Environmental Health Health Care

April 21, 2011

20 people. 5 families. Fresh food intervention. How low can their BPA levels go? It sounds like the premise for a reality show. But there are no over-the-top TV antics here. Last week, the Breast Cancer Fund and Silent Spring Institute released a study which tested the levels of the toxic chemical...

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Claire Moshenberg

Health Care

April 21, 2011

We receive lots of great questions from our members across the nation asking about how health reform will impact children, moms, dads, and families. So we resolved to get the answers from our country's experts. Want the lowdown on healthcare reform and how it impacts you directly from the source?...

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Donna Norton

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Health Care

April 15, 2011

So my daughter-in-law stopped by the office yesterday to pick up a Screen-Free Week Organizer’s Kit. National Screen-Free Week, April 18-24, is hosted by Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which I direct. She, her husband, and the two best little girls in the world—okay, in my world—are...

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Susan Linn

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

April 11, 2011

According to magazines and TV commercials, I will be spending the next three months in a swimsuit. To someone who has worked full time every summer since I was fourteen, and had the Bay Area pleasure of having a sultry summer day cap out around 65 degrees, I say hooray! (Although I’m still not sure...

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Claire Moshenberg

Health Care

April 7, 2011

California WIC Association (CWA) hosts an educational forum to discuss how low-to-no-cost policy reforms can dramatically increase health equity in California. Policy briefing sponsored by the Senate Health Committee. WHEN: Friday, April 8, 2011, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. WHERE: State Capitol, Room...

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Laurie True

Health Care

April 5, 2011

The controversy over the Berjuan nursing doll underscores that Americans still have a long way to go to accept breastfeeding as normal. If little Maggie wants to play with her baby doll, she will want to feed it somehow, won't she? Traditionally, baby dolls come with little toy baby bottles. But...

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Melissa Bartick

Health Care

March 24, 2011

Now that I am the mother of two children, sons aged 2 ½ and 11 months, I am grateful for a law like the Affordable Care Act. When I was 21, I “aged out” of my parents’ insurance because I was no longer in school full-time. My first job after graduating from college provided me with insurance but...

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