Turn Purple on October 20 — and Show LGBT Youth It Does ‘Get Better’
Filed under: Woman Up"Awareness" campaigns often signify little and accomplish even less. But the "It Gets Better" effort to support the LGBT community might just instill hope in lives where that's a missing ingredient. Permalink | Emai...
Time to Get Out of the Pool? Contaminants May Lead to Bladder Cancer, Study Says
Filed under: Environment, PD InvestigationsA researcher says "nobody should stop swimming because of our study," but calls for greater regulation of contaminants in indoor pools. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs ...
My Own Private 9/11
Filed under: Terror, Woman UpOn September 11, 2001, the world as we knew it was shattered. For oncologists and their patients, it's just another terrible day, and then some. I know from experience. Permalink | Email this | Link...
War Casualties and the Emptiness Left Behind
Filed under: Woman Up, Military, Memorial Day
Memorial Day essay on those who grieve for the fallen triggers an outpouring of pain and remembrance, even for those lost long, long ago.
National Enquirer Submits for Pulitzer Prize After John Edwards Admits Paternity of Rielle Hunter’s Daughter
Filed under: Emily's Post
Barry Levine, editor of the National Enquirer, is nominating his reporters for a Pulitzer Prize for their work in uncovering the John Edwards affair.
Levine told me that Edwards' admission Thursday that he fathered a daughter with a campaign videographer...
Levine told me that Edwards' admission Thursday that he fathered a daughter with a campaign videographer...
Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread: Not-So-Green China
At Reuters, Tan Ee Lyn writes:
China's ‘cancer villages’ bear witness to economic boom
Cancer casts a shadow over the villages in this region of China in southern Guangdong province, nestled among farmland contaminated by heavy metals used to make batteries, computer parts and...
Kenneth Bacon’s Life and Death Struggle: A Lesson in Health Care Bureaucracy
Filed under: Media, Health Care, Obama Administration
With Obama administration trial-ballooners declaring that the president might be willing to drop the public option from health care reform, an opinion piece that appeared less than a month ago should be required reading. It was written by Kenneth Bacon.
Everything Will Kill You
Filed under: Health Care, Woman Up, Culture
Cigarettes, dry-cleaning solvent, radon, lead paint, asbestos, DDT, mercury fillings, tuna - that's all old news.
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