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AC TION ALERT: Protect Our Health: Stop Mercury and Other Toxics! PLEASE SIGN !
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, children, dangerous, chemicals, toxics, mercury, deaths, legalisation, protection )

Simone
- 166 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Mercury is poison and it's likely in you or your loved ones. Mercury and other air toxics contribute to a host of heinous health problems from birth defects to premature death.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Reform School Lunch By Banning Processed Foods
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, politics, school food, food, diet, Body-Mind-Spirit, protection, health, humans, society )

Cal
- 166 days ago - forcechange.com
In a society where an alarming number of adolescents are overweight or obese, schools must stop posturing and pretending. "Carbonated fruit juice" by any other name, is still soda. "Fruit chews" is still candy.
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Buy Safe, Eat Well
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, safety, protection, children, family, food, toys )

Nancy
- 167 days ago - secure.consumersunion.org
Want to see if a product or toy you're considering buying this holiday season has any reports of safety hazards? Or do you need to report an experience you or a loved one have had with an unsafe product?
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Get the Lead and Arsenic Out of Apple Juice ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, humans, children, apple juice, lead, arsenic, protection )

Cher
- 167 days ago - forcechange.com
Recent tests have exposed dangerous and unacceptable levels of arsenic and lead in the apple juice produced by some of the top selling juice manufactures. It is frightening to think that children, who have an even higher sensitivity to excessive levels
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Sebelius Overrules FDA Decision to Widen Access to Morning-After Pill
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, children, disease, drugs, family, healthcare, medicine, prevention, research, society, science, treatment )

Kit
- 170 days ago - truth-out.org
Interesting that men have virtually unlimited access to "stimulus" pills and condoms and yet women are stopped and blocked from decisions about their own bodies.
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ACTION ALERT: Tell President Obama: I Support Clean Air! PLEASE SIGN !
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, enivorment, children, . health care, clean air, legalisation )

Simone
- 171 days ago - change.org
The White House is being pressured by polluters to fundamentally weaken or add gaping loopholes to the EPA's urgently needed Mercury and Air Toxics rule--just as it is about to be posted. The Mercury and Air Toxic rule is one of the most important
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20 Facts About Child Hunger And Child Poverty That Will Break Your Heart
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, government, society, diet, food, health, nutrition, women )

Robert
- 174 days ago - theeconomiccollapseblog.com
#14 The poorest 50% of all Americans collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States. Statistically, there are more children in poor households than in wealthy ones.
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200,000 for Fukushima's Children ACTION
Health & Wellness  (tags: Fukushima, nuclear contamination, health, children )

Nancy
- 175 days ago - avaaz.org
Every day there is mounting evidence of the brutal levels of soil and food contamination. More than 300,000 children remain at risk across Fukushima Prefecture. These brave mothers are crying out for help, but, shockingly, our government is ignoring them
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Federal and State Governments of Australia: Stop Aus. Govt. Funds for Mental Health Screening of Our Children.PLEASE SIGN
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, family, government, healthcare, news, protection, warning )

Iona
- 176 days ago - change.org
Mandatory mental health screening of children in schools has proven to be a very dangerous road. Even their own stats show an alarming rate of false positives. Please sign this petition to stop Australian governments from being able to implement them.
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Hot-Spotting: It's How, Not How Much
Health & Wellness  (tags: americans, children, disease, dollars saved, drugs, healthcare, illness, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection, safety, society )

Kit
- 178 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Let's take a health care example. Imagine if you could identify a small number of patients who end up eating up most health care dollars. Let's say you could focus resources just on them, improve their health outcomes, while also cutting the overall-->
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Asthma for Profit?
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, children, drugs, ethics, family, government, healthcare, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, news, prevention, research, risks, safety, treatment, warning )

Sheldon
- 179 days ago - care2.com
... "My son was admitted into the care of Lehigh of Lehigh Valley Hospital on 11/1/11 for a severe asthma attack and was set to be release on 11/8/11 because he had a really good recovery. On November 7th, the night before his release I disagreed" ...
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ACTION ALERT: Stop Over-Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs for Foster Children! PLEASE SIGN !
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, wellness, psychotropic drugs, dangerous, laws, children, protection, prevention, illness )

Simone
- 185 days ago - forcechange.com
Recent studies show a disturbing over-prescription of antipsychotic drugs for children in foster care. Foster children often receive more than one prescription of powerful psychotropic drugs like Seroquel and Zyprexa, drugs used to treat severe bipolar
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America Conned: Psycho Pharma Drug Pushing Empire Under Fire
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, babies, Body-Mind-Spirit, children, death, drugs, ethics, government, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, investigation, medicine, news, nutrition, prevention, research, risks, study, treatment, warning )

Kenneth
- 187 days ago - naturalnews.com
Is America truly stricken with widespread mental illness? Do tens of millions need mind-altering drugs? A flurry of media articles lead readers to a realization that Big Pharma and the "mental health" industry have deceived Americans on a grand scale .
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Hotel Soap Fighting Disease Abroad
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, humans, world, society, protection, prevention, illness, children, Body-Mind-Spirit, safety, news )

Cal
- 189 days ago - cnn.com
Derreck Kayongo's Global Soap Project collects used hotel soap bars, reprocessing it to save lives in impoverished countries.
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Tear Drops May Rival Blood Drops in Testing Blood Sugar for Diabetes
Health & Wellness  (tags: diabetes, blood, tears, AlternativeMed, children, disease, ethics, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, news, protection, research, safety, science, study )

Lindsey
- 191 days ago - happynews.com
Scientists are reporting development and successful laboratory testing of an electrochemical sensor device that has the potential to measure blood sugar levels from tears instead of blood -- an advance that could save the world's 350 million diabetes patie
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