Health Care

August 1, 2012

Shade your eyes, stretch high-up on your tippy-toes, and look west… A bit farther…past your back yard… Up and over the Rocky Mountains... Past Las Vegas glimmer… Over to the massive, distant, piece of land geographically sandwiched between the Sierra Nevada Mountain range and the Pacific Ocean...

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Kristi Marsh

Health Care

August 1, 2012

By Ashley Mayo, Strategic Engagement Fellow at the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, being a woman just got easier. Today, a new provision of the law requiring insurers to provide women's preventive services without a copay takes effect. For a quick look at what...

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Ashley Wheeland

Health Care Blog Carnivals

August 1, 2012

It's almost too good to believe, but it's true! And all the better because we fought hard for it -- first through the Affordable Care Act's passage, and then when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops objected to free coverage of contraceptives through women's employer-provided health insurance...

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Cynthia Liu

Health Care

July 27, 2012

On July 29, 2012, I’m shaving my head – BALD – with an incredible group of courageous moms to fund life-saving childhood cancer research through the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. I’m shaving my head for my hero and son, Max, and to stand in solidarity with all of the incredibly courageous kids who...

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Audra Dipadova

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

July 26, 2012

When I was in college during the first years of the AIDS epidemic, I assumed that by the time I had a child, all kids would be taught about HIV in school. In the past 20 years, lots of evidence shows how HIV education helps young people make healthy decisions including delaying sex and using...

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Leslie Kantor

Health Care

July 10, 2012

Ah, the call of the ice cream truck. The minute he hears the music from a distance, my four year-old begins begging, “Can I have an ice cream?!” He tries every possible approach – when I say no, he corners his father, and has even resorted to asking a neighbor to buy one for him. Lessons from the...

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Ashley Boyd

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

July 3, 2012

Fireworks. Barbeques. Antibiotics? When it comes to Fourth of July traditions, one of these things is not like the others. Unfortunately, antibiotics can crash your summer barbeque depending on the kind of meat you purchase. Antibiotics have become so rampant in meat that we're starting to see a...

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Claire Moshenberg

Health Care

July 3, 2012

We are still excited about the Supreme Court Ruling last week that upholds the Affordable Care Act! And we're still laughing about the great celebration images that have been circulating since the announcement. Here are a few of our favorites--what are we missing? THESE FIVE PEOPLE just saved...

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Claire Moshenberg

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

July 2, 2012

By Dawn Averitt Bridge Founder and Chair, The Well Project June 28 is a day I’ll never forget: the anniversary of my HIV diagnosis. It was 1988. I was only 19, and didn’t know a single other HIV-positive woman. Misinformation and fear dominated the public conversation on AIDS; everyone knew AIDS...

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Dawn Averitt

Health Care

June 28, 2012

I sat on the edge of my seat, with butterflies in my stomach, waiting this morning for the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. Why? I, like millions of other moms, have family members with pre-existing conditions who've already been helped by the consumer protections in the...

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