Health Care

February 27, 2011

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org The new Congress has immediately taken up several pieces of legislation which will restrict women's ability to obtain safe abortions in certain circumstances and change the current law in...

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Valerie Young

Health Care Blog Carnivals

February 24, 2011

As a pediatrician, mother, and an African American woman, I celebrated as both First Lady Michelle Obama and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin recently lent their voices to encourage strong support for breastfeeding. It’s inspiring to have prominent, influential African American women issuing a call...

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Sahira Long, MD, FAAP, IBCLC

Health Care

February 24, 2011

Last year, on September 23, a vital part of President Obama's health care reform package went into effect, changing drastically a key aspect of health care in America. Before this date, insurers could, under cover of the law, deny health coverage to our sickest children. Common preexisting...

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Dave Jones, CA Insurance Commissioner

Paid Family Leave Health Care Open Flexible Work

February 24, 2011

By Galen Sherwin, Staff Attorney, ACLU Women's Rights Project Returning to work after having a new baby can pose real barriers for women who are breastfeeding. Consider the following real-life examples: When one employee returned from maternity leave, her employer criticized her for needing to...

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Roger Baldwin

Paid Family Leave Health Care

February 23, 2011

Millions of US workers – including parents of infants – are harmed by weak or nonexistent laws on paid leave, breastfeeding accommodation, and discrimination against workers with family responsibilities, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Workers face grave health, financial, and...

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Janet Walsh

Health Care

February 22, 2011

Gracias a la reforma de salud, las compañias de seguro médico no pueden negar cobertura a ningún niño, incluso a aquellos con “condiciones preexistentes” como el asma, el diabetes, el cáncer, u otras enfermedades. En California a estos niños se les asegura con tarifas más económicas si sus familias...

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Elisa Batista

Environmental Health Health Care

February 22, 2011

Cancer may seem like a huge monster that we can’t do anything about. This year, we have a way to get that monster out from the under bed. In its annual report to the President last year, the President’s Cancer Panel confirmed that exposure to toxic chemicals is an important but under-recognized...

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Claire Moshenberg

Health Care

February 22, 2011

A veces cuando uno no tiene seguro médico, parece imposible encontrar cobertura económica. Yo sé porque cuando mi marido cambió de trabajo hace tres años atrás, perdimos nuestro seguro médico. Supimos de “Healthy Families” por una clínica en Berkeley. El proceso para aplicar fue muy fácil...

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Guillermina Ruiz

Health Care

February 21, 2011

There's not a lot of love between right and left these days, but one thing politicians of every stripe agree about is breastfeeding, at least when it comes to their own families. Michelle Obama says she breastfed her daughters, bringing her younger one to work at eight months so she could keep...

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Melissa Bartick

Health Care

February 19, 2011

In case you missed it (and you might wish that you had), breastfeeding is now being used as a ploy for political rants. That’s right. Our political culture has sunk so low as to transform something previously non-controversial, almost entirely free and certifiably healthy into a political hot...

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