I am sure that the legislators in Texas know that needle exchanges are much safer for drug addicts and for the public, but they’d rather act all judgmental towards addicts and the people who live near them. Sometimes I hate Texas! What is it like to live in a state that cares about the people?
Texas’ […]
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Filed under: Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Health, Opinion, Politics, Texas, addiction
How many times a day do you click something on the computer? These clicks make a difference!
help women to get a mammogram
By Texas Betsy | January 15, 2008 - 4:15 pm -
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Filed under: Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Health, Medical News, breast cancer
I wrote about this issue once before. I am very glad that I got the vaccine and I hope that other states will do what Texas has done. Health care is more important than scaring girls into being celibate.
Here’s the update:
After controversy, more HPV vaccinations, doctors say
from Star-Telegram
Some pediatricians say last year’s controversy over […]
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Filed under: Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Health, Politics, sex education, teen pregnancy, teens
Well THIS is hardly fair!
ER docs give whites narcotics more often
from Yahoo! News
AP - Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed […]
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Filed under: FrecklesCassie, Health, Medical News, Secondary Featured Stories, discrimination, equality, news
According to CNN, the man who took hostages at Hillary Clinton did so because of his “inability to get mental health treatment.” People in his town say that this has been a problem for a long time.
This country does not do enough for people with mental illness. There are not enough clinics, not […]
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Filed under: Election 2008, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Government, Health, Mental Illness
These kids care about their health and the health of all their classmates. They protested, got suspended, got press, and MADE A DIFFERENCE! Now their school will be cleaned and even the other schools in their district. Good for them! (The part about their protest is at the end of the article in bold.)
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Filed under: Activism, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Health, Medical News, Opinion, Politics, news, protest
I have heard a lot of liberal and progressive adults say that is is indecent and wrong to criticize 12-year-old boys. I disagree. There are a lot of reasons why you might criticize 12 year-old boys. Some of them don’t shower often enough and they have terrible table manners and their […]
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Filed under: Chip, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Freedom of the Press, Graeme Frost, Health, Moral Issues, Republicans, SCHIP, children, freedom of speech, health insurance, poverty
It seems that George W is concerned about his legacy, and he is talking to a biographer named Robert Draper:
In book, Bush peeks ahead to his legacy
from Americas - International Herald Tribune
In an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, President George W. Bush daydreamed about the next […]
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Universal Health Care - Part 2
Well…where to start? I guess I’ll share with you how I can relate to why I support Universal Health Care.
My little brother is four. He was diagnosed with asthma at the age of two, I believe. My Mom immediately applied for Medicaid and the government now pays for his asthma […]
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Universal Health Care - Part 1
Okay, so I’m just going to tell you upfront that this is going to be a series, I’ll be posting one every day or so for about a week.
Universal health care is a state in which all residents of a geographic or political entity have access to some type of […]
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