Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
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 [...]
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Filed under: Education, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Medical News, Opinion, Politics, Young Adult Issues, children, schools, teen pregnancy, teens
Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
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
Posted on January 1st, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
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
Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Brendon Schweers
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 [...]
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Filed under: Activism, Brendon Schweers, Democrats, Featured Stories, George W. Bush, Government, Medical News, Politics, health insurance, news
Posted on October 27th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
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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Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
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 [...]
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Filed under: Education, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Medical News, Religion, Video, schools, sex education
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
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 [...]
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Filed under: Activism, FrecklesCassie, George W. Bush, Government, Medical News, Opinion, Secondary Featured Stories, Young Adult Issues, poverty
Posted on August 1st, 2007 by Brendon Schweers
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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Filed under: Activism, Brendon Schweers, Congress, Constitution, Health, Medical News, Secondary Featured Stories, poverty
Posted on July 9th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
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 [...]
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Filed under: Animal Rights, FDA, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Government, Medical News, Politics, Uncategorized, vegetarianism
Posted on June 29th, 2007 by Brendon Schweers
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. [...]
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