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Critical Food Safety Vote This Week!
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, food, safety, protection, risks, health, humans, nutrition )

Tierney
- 2 days ago - secure.consumersunion.org
And not a moment too soon! On Wednesday, a key Senate committee is slated to vote on a bill that will encourage food producers to clean up their acts and prevent deadly contamination in the foods we buy each day. With the holidays just around the corner,
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Conjoined Twins Separated in Historic 25-Hour Surgery
Health & Wellness  (tags: twin babies, seperation, surgery, head, risks, babies )

Lone
- 2 days ago - foxnews.com
MELBOURNE, Australia -- A team of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery Tuesday to separate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain tissue.
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Say "NO" to Pesticide Applications Near Kern County's Schools-Please Take Action!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, risks, safety, insecticides, protection, environment )

Tierney
- 3 days ago - ufwaction.org
"I know that pesticides are very dangerous for my son. Not only to his health, but they can also can affect my son's capacity to learn. In Kern county we have a lot of schools near agricultural operations.
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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
- 4 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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WHO Report Highlights Gender Disparities, Cites AIDS as Leading Cause of Women's Deaths
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, disease, health, risks, WHO, HIV, healthcare )

Tierney
- 5 days ago - nationalpartnership.org
November 11, 2009 -- Women around the world are "denied a chance to develop their full human potential" because of a lack of essential health care throughout their lives, according to a World Health Organization report released Monday, Reuters report
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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
- 5 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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Swine Flu: With No Paid Sick Leave, Workers Won't Stay Home
Health & Wellness  (tags: H1N1 flu, no sickdays, .work, health, warning, risks )

Lone
- 5 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Atlanta -- Nearly half of all American workers do not have paid sick leave, and half of these are more likely to go to work feeling unwell -- or send an ill child to school -- rather than take an unpaid day off.
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Sign the Petition, Send a Coat Hanger
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, prevention, protection, risks, treatment, reproductive health care )

Kelli
- 5 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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FINLAND'S HEALTH MINISTER BLASTS SWINE FLU
Health & Wellness  (tags: risks, safety, children, vaccine, flu )

Dandelion
- 8 days ago - masslpa.org
Two key memorandums from WHO, discovered by Patrick Jordan, prove WHO has intentionally created the three-shot killer vaccine that people in the USA and other countries could soon be forced to take.
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Best Balsamic Vinegars - Vinegars Laced With Lead
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, food, health, humans, illness, nutrition, protection, risks, warning )

Daphna
- 10 days ago - thedailygreen.com
In a tradition dating back to medieval times, growers in Modena, Italy, are deep into the grape harvest, the first step in making their famed balsamic vinegar.Cooking the trebianno and lambrusco grapes releases rich juice that is then stored in vintage
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Pedestrian Deaths Are Preventable. Demand Safer Streets! -Please Take Action !
Health & Wellness  (tags: safety, risks, protection, government, accidents, Obam, prevention )

Tierney
- 11 days ago - action.smartgrowthamerica.org
Thousands of Americans of all ages have been struck down in the simple act of walking. These "accidents" overwhelmingly occur on roads that are dangerous by design, with little or no provision for people on foot, in wheelchairs, or on a bicycle.
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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
- 11 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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Take Action-Tell the RBGH Profiteers Why You Buy Organic to Avoid Genetically Modified Bovine Growth Hormone
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, children, diet, drugs, family, food, government, health, humans, nutrition, prevention, risks )

Daphna
- 14 days ago - organicconsumers.org
Following up on our successful campaign against Yoplait and Dannon, the Organic Consumers Association is now asking our members to write to ice cream companies that still allow the use of genetically modified bovine growth hormone (Dreyer's, Edy's
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Food Industry Dictates Nutrition Policy
Health & Wellness  (tags: illness, health, Factory Farms, diet, disease, risks, safety )

Tierney
- 15 days ago - organicconsumers.org
New York (CNN) -- Beyond the unhealthy influence that our demand for factory-farmed meat has in the area of food-borne illness and communicable diseases, we could cite many other influences on public health, most obviously the now-widely recognized relat
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Health Ills Abound as Farm Animal Runoff Fouls Wells, Laws Neither Applied or Enforced
Health & Wellness  (tags: environment, safety, health, disease, risks, treatment, food )

Tierney
- 15 days ago - organicconsumers.org
MORRISON, Wis. - All it took was an early thaw for the drinking water here to become unsafe. There are 41,000 dairy cows in Brown County, which includes Morrison, and they produce more than 260 million gallons of manure each year, much of which is spr
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