Health Care

Tired of Toxic Chemicals? We've Got a Solution.

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...

Getting Stronger Every Generation: Six Women’s Stories

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...

Experts answer MomsRising members' questions about health reform

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?...

The BPA Diet

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...