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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
- 36 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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WHAT'S IT GOING TO TAKE TO PASS HEALTH CARE- REFORM TAKE ACTION!!!!!!!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, discrimination, healthcare, risks, safety, government )

Tierney
- 36 days ago - ppaction.org
Despite hundreds of thousands of voters like you and me who called on members of the House of Representatives to include women's health care in health care reform, the bill that passed late Saturday night includes a ban on private abortion coverage for m
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Health Workers Urged to Fight Their Own Bias About Mental Illness
Health & Wellness  (tags: discrimination, mental health, health care workers, treatment, risks, science, prevention, humans, government, abuse, disease, drugs, ethics, illness, investigation, warning, protection )

Cheryl Su
- 482 days ago - theglobeandmail.com
Some of the worst discrimination and stigma faced by people suffering from mental illness comes from their health-care providers, the chairman of the Mental Health Commission of Canada says
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Medicaid Patient Dies. Who Gets the House?
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, disabilities, Elderly people, elderly, discrimination, abuse )

Jill
- 557 days ago - usatoday.com
A Federal law called the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program requires states to take homes and properties away from nursing home and home health care patients receiving assistance from Medicaid. Overriding their Wills it leaves theri families with nothing.
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A Guide Dog With Clout Calls It a Day
Health & Wellness  (tags: guide dog, service animals, blind, blindness, discrimination, americans with disabilities Act )

Mandy
- 604 days ago - nytimes.com
Ruger is a guide dog, and for the past nine years, he has guided Kevin Coughlin, a resident of Murray Hill, around the city. He has waged high-profile fights to require businesses to open their doors to guide dogs, as they are required to do by law.
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ZIMBABWE: Rural Women Struggle to Get Treatment for HIV
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, treatment, healthcare, aids, discrimination )

Julia
- 698 days ago - irinnews.org
HARARE, 15 January 2008 (IRIN) - HIV-infected women living in rural areas are finding it increasingly difficult to access life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs (ARVs)
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