- Carlos Watson questions Pence's creative math (0) July 30, 2009 Deb Good on Carlos Watson this morning for pushing back against Rep. Mike Pence's attempt to score talking points with the low math-low-info crowd. In a conversation about the cost of health care reform, Pence asserted that the bill currently in committee wou...
- Rachel Does the Health Care Math (0) July 25, 2009 Deb I love Rachel Maddow. She has a way of putting things into sharp perspective. Take her short segment tonight on the new minimum wage, which went into effect in the U.S. today. Here's the math on how the new minimum wage affects the ability to purchase hea...
- Breastfeeding May Have Long Term Benefits for Mom (0) April 25, 2009 Deb
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You breastfed your baby because it was best for the baby, right? A new study suggests that you may have done yourself one heck of a favor at the same time. The New York Times reported that a new study, which wi...
- The Myth of Canadian Health Care Wait Times (4) April 24, 2009 Deb
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Yesterday, the Canadian Institute for Health Information released their report on wait times for several common health procedures across Canada. You can find the wait times table at the CIHI web site. The repor...
- M&Ms help prevent breast cancer (0) October 15, 2008 Deb No, really, it's true. M&Ms has guaranteed a minimum contribution of $650,000 to the Susan G. Komen Fund for the cure of breast cancer. You can help make it even more just by indulging in your need for chocolate. M&Ms is actually doing a great dea...
- A Free Press for a Free People... (0) September 18, 2008 Deb that's what this rag calls itself. What it really looks like is a shill site that panders to the gullibility and credulity of people in debt to rake up fat affiliate profits from barely legal advertisers. Case in point - the banner ad on every page is for...
- Cultural Support Needed for Breastfeeding Moms (0) July 27, 2008 Deb A post at Our Bodies Our Blog reminded me forcefully of my own experiences as a breastfeeding mom in the early 80s. Christine C. referenced this commentary by Aisha Qaasim at womensEnews. Qaasim talks about breastfeeding her two month old daughter and hea...
- Why Did I Have to Go to England to See a Vagina? (0) July 14, 2008 Deb So that means if a person hasn't seen a range of women's genitals in real life there's no way s/he is going to know what real women's genitals look like. Everyone then starts to think all genitals should look like the airbrushed ones - which are really ju...
- Health News You Can Use - Writing it Down Helps Take Weight Off (0) July 8, 2008 Deb If you're trying to take off weight, buy a diary. Researchers at Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research in Portland have found that dieters who write down everything they eat lose twice as much weight as those who don't. The study involved 1,685 m...
- A Woman's Body (0) June 19, 2008 Deb I don't spend a lot of time at the pediatrician's anymore - not since my kids stopped running into slides at the playground (five stitches in the chin), falling off of front porches (broken wrist), and rolling down hills (double arm fracture with splinter...
- It's The Sound of the Beast (1) June 19, 2008 caralisarebekah Not even two months since the Sean Bell verdict, young New Yorkers, the Hip Hop Generation, and hell... anyone who has the good sense to look around, has another reason not to trust the notorious NYPD. According to Rosa Clemente, on Defuse News:
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- Good News for Coffee Lovers (0) June 18, 2008 Deb I love me my coffee, so this article was happy news for me. According to a new study, drinking two to three cups of coffee a day may decrease my risk of dying of heart disease by up to 25%, and my risk of dying from a cause other than cancer or heart dise...
