more on sex education

Some teenagers are stupid!  And some are just uninformed.  They NEED to start giving us the real facts or kids will be killing themselves trying to stay healthy.  I wrote about teen pregnancy and sex education previously here and here and here.

Nobody Could Have Predicted…
from Eschaton by Atrios
And on and on…

ORLANDO, Fla. — A recent [...]

Click to help give mammograms to women

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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discrimination at hospitals

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 [...]

Bush to veto kids health insurance bill

Uh oh. This just kinda makes me mad.
For one, I know, as well as you know and your neighbor knows that the Heath Care system in the United States just isn’t cutting it.
Talk of Universal Heath Care has been in the air for quite some time now. Yet, a UHC bill has not been passed.
It [...]

HS kids’ protest makes a difference

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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REAL Sex Ed

Daisy, in the post below, seems surprised at how religiously biased and anti-scientific sex education has become. I live in Texas and I am still in HS, so it doesn’t surprise me at all. “Say no until you are married” is about half of what they tell us in school. But —– neither school nor [...]

Call to Action on CHIP program

I just got this email. But it sounds like people in other states can call their governor too.

—Freckles
Dear Cassie,

George Bush has done it again. He has sided with insurance and drug company profits over the health and well-being of our nation’s children. Late Friday
night, the Bush administration released a letter to state health [...]

Diving into issues

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 [...]

Avian Flu?

Why isn’t this story being publicized everywhere? And do we really need even more reasons to start eating vegetarian?

Avian flu at Va. farm prompts more testing

By the Associated Press HARRISONBURG –
More than 50,000 turkeys on a farm west of Mount Jackson tested positive for avian flu antibodies, prompting additional testing and surveillance at area poultry [...]

Former Marine Claims Illness From Mystery Vaccine

Military source believes experimental shots may have been given.
This, my friends, is a PERFECT example of political corruption.
These people SERVE our country, they lay down their lives for us. Yet, our government, doesn’t think that is good enough to keep them from being lab rats. That’s exactly what our troops are being in this situation. [...]