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Category Archives: Health
5 Countries That Do It Better: How Sexual Prudery Makes America a Less Healthy and Happy Place
To extreme social conservatives of the far right, the word “prude” is not an insult — it’s a badge of honor. “Prudes,” they would argue, should be upheld as exemplary role models because a sexually repressive society is also a … Continue reading
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Paul Ryan’s Healthcare Plan: Die Quickly
As a favor to struggling Americans, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., proposed a federal budget last week ravaging programs for the poor, elderly, disabled, young, veterans, jobless, students and other vulnerable people. Ryan did it, he said, because these programs, … Continue reading
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What’s in a Label? Why the Package Insert for Plan B is Wrong… and Why It Matters.
So why does it matter? The standard legal and medical definition of the beginning of pregnancy in the US is the implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus. By that definition, even if LNG EC did interfere with implantation, … Continue reading
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Culture Warriors vs. Sex for Pleasure: Why the Right Wing is Wrong When it Comes to Sex
If prescribing to dogmatic absolutes worked, then the most conservative Christian red states wouldn’t have the highest rates of teen pregnancy, divorce and porn consumption. The fallen Colorado megachurch Pastor Ted Haggard, former head of the National Association of Evangelicals, … Continue reading
Obama Picks Sides on Keystone XL: TransCanada Wins. Earth, Everyone Else Loses
Despite the President’s rhetoric on clean energy, it really is business as usual and dirty fossil fuels will continue to receive support and preference. A lesson in how not to reduce gas prices: the White House is backing TransCanada’s bid to build … Continue reading
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Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Trying to Pass off to Kids as Science
In a blatant attempt at brainwashing, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has widely circulated what it calls a Biotechnology Basics Activity Book for kids, to be used by “Agriculture and Science Teachers.” The book — called Look Closer at … Continue reading
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Baffling Illness Strikes Africa, Turns Children Into Violent “Zombies”
The illness brings on seizures, violent behavior, personality changes, and a host of other unusual symptoms. I. Violent and Mindless: Child Victims Have no Cure, no Future Grace Lagat, a northern Uganda native, is mother of two children – Pauline … Continue reading
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Moyers: Why Religion Should Not Dictate Our Politics | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet
But here’s what Republicans don’t get, or won’t tell you. And what Obama manifestly does get. First, the war’s already lost: 98 percent of Catholic women of child-bearing age have used contraceptives. Second, on many major issues, the bishops are … Continue reading
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DNA Nanorobot Halts Growth of Cancer Cells
DNA origami, a technique for making structures from DNA, has been used to build devices that can seek out and potentially destroy cancer cells. The nanorobots use a similar system to cells in the immune system to engage with receptors … Continue reading
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Preschooler’s Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria ‘Nuggets’
One problem: the story is a load of bunk at worst, a non-story at best, standing for little more than the proposition that low-income children in NC’s low-income pre-K program whose parents don’t send them to school with enough healthy … Continue reading