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Health & Wellness News tagged with Government

Medical Marijuana Usage From Ancient Egypt to Obama's Medical Marijuana Statements
Health & Wellness  (tags: illness, treatment, study, science, society, health, humans, disease, drugs, ethics, AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, cancer, research, healthcare, interesting, government )

Faith
- 4 days ago - examiner.com
First recorded use of marijuana for medical purposes was in ancient Egypt. It was used to treat inflammation of the eye and used for some ailments of the uterus. In India medical marijuana was used as far back as 800 B.C. for congestion
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Patients Face Bitter Choice: Pay Up or Lose Care
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, medicine, humans, government )

Cal
- 4 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Premium-pay medical practices grow as doctors seek more control, cash
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USDA REPORT REVEALS HIGHEST RATE OF FOOD INSECURITY SINCE REPORT WAS INITIATED IN 1995
Health & Wellness  (tags: government, safety, risks, research, science, study, nutrition, diet, food )

Tierney
- 7 days ago - usda.gov
Economic Research Service Report Demonstrates Need for Action WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2009 - USDA's Economic Research Service's (ERS) today released its annual report on Household Food Security in the U.S., which revealed that in 2008, 17 million hou
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TAKE ACTION: Senate Vote Tomorrow Health Care
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, health, senate, prevention, government )

Tierney
- 8 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
The Senate is scheduled to vote on whether to open debate on its healthcare reform bill tomorrow night. Unlike the House, the Senate's bill protects the status quo for reproductive healthcare coverage for women. Not a single Republican is anticipate
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The Stupak-Pitts Controversy Is Based On--and Masks--A Deepset Fear of Women's Agency
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, health, government, abortion, stupak-pitts )

Tierney
- 11 days ago - rhrealitycheck.org
The Stupak-Pitts amendment to the House bill for health care reform grabbed most of the headlines after the health care reform vote. It makes sense---the media and socially conservative politicians love to bang the drum about abortion
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The Health Care America Refuses To Provide
Health & Wellness  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, healthcare, health, medicine, government, humans, politics, culture, society )

Kat
- 11 days ago - dissidentvoice.org
As you're reading this I'm sure your eyes are beginning to roll, indicating how peeved you're probably getting over yet another tirade on the subject of health-care-overhaul. Fear not. To prevent this article from joining the all-embracing tautology of...
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No Ban on Abortion Coverage-Please Take Action!!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, protection, healthcare, safety, prevention, government )

Tierney
- 11 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
When you need medical care, your insurance should pay for it. Yet some in Congress are trying to use healthcare reform to ban insurance coverage for abortion services, coverage that millions of women already have.
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Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic! - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: Petition, warning, protection, risks, humans, illness, health, food, government, environment, children, family, diet, ethics )

Daphna
- 13 days ago - change.org
Keep Nanotechnology Out of Organic! To tell the USDA that you want the National Organic Standards Board to take a strong stand against the use of nanotechnology in organic food.
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Did These Democrats Forget What Happens When Women Are Denied Access to Abortion?Please Take Action!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, safety, risks, healthcare, health, government )

Tierney
- 14 days ago - act.credoaction.com
Sign this petition and send a coat hanger to the 20 formerly pro-choice Democrats -- all men -- who voted to pass the Stupak Amendment.
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Anti-Choice "Egg-as-Person" Initiatives Threaten the Rights Of Women
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, government, protection, healthcare, news )

Tierney
- 16 days ago - rhrealitycheck.org
Eight months pregnant, confused and suffering psychological disorders, Jessica Clyburn jumped from a fifth story window in South Carolina. According to the media, she had attempted unsuccessfully to commit suicide.
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Another Doctor Mad As Hell
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, congress, government, prevention, family )

Tierney
- 16 days ago - rhrealitycheck.org
Congress has done it. They've thrown women's reproductive rights under the bus. They've catered to religious extremists rather than protect the health of our mothers, daughters, and sisters
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Big Insurance Kills - Please Take Action ! Get Free Bumper Sticker!
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, death, disease, government, big insurance co )

Tierney
- 17 days ago - biginsurancekills.com
Health insurance reform is about more than profits and deficits. It's about real people who need help. I demand the CEOs of the three largest insurance companies sit down with the people they've hurt, stop dropping our coverage, stop denying us care, and
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Call on Senate Leader Reid: Stop Abortion Coverage Ban-Petition!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, government, protection, prevention )

Tierney
- 18 days ago - secure.prochoiceamerica.org
The House of Representatives passed health-reform legislation that included an anti-choice amendment that will seriously jeopardize women's access to abortion
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Tell Senate Majority Leader Reid: Keep Stupak-Pitts Language OUT of the Senate Health Care Bill
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, humans, women, government, protection )

Tierney
- 18 days ago - site.pfaw.org
Entangling anti-choice politics with health care reform, an amendment was added at the last minute to the health care reform bill that passed the House of Representatives. The Stupak-Pitts amendment takes the incredibly audacious step of prohibiting priv
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Find Out How Your Representative Voted - Then Click "Take Action Now"
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, government, discrimination, healthcare, health, medicine )

Tierney
- 19 days ago - action.nwlc.org
Anti-choice Members of Congress rolled back the clock on coverage of abortion services that millions of women currently have.
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