Health

Reforming Birth One Baby at a Time 8
- Health, Family, Featured, MomThink
- December 5, 2024
This week, I had the opportunity to talk about my birth experiences at a local university. I was one member of a panel of three women representing ICAN, the International Cesarean Awareness Network, to speak to a women’s studies class about the issue of birth and women’s treatment by the medical community. About half of
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What Kind of Health Care Did American Women Really Want When They Deserted Kamala?9
- Culture, Featured, Health, MomThink, Politics
- November 26, 2024
Donald Trump’s stunning victory has everyone talking, especially about the surprising gains that he made with minority, youth, and women voters. As a woman, I was told that most of us would be voting for Harris because she was a champion of women’s health. It didn’t happen. In fact, Harris barely won the majority of the
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The Therapeutic Power of Stories 2
- Featured, Health, Literature
- November 8, 2024
Stories hold a powerful sway over the human spirit. They reach us on the deepest levels, moving, inspiring, instructing, and even healing us, as modern therapeutic practice has shown. Stories and poems consolidate and interpret random occurrences and emotional and sensory activity—the raw inputs of experience—into a meaningful whole. This allows us to understand reality
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Big Pharma and Media: Partners in Profit 8
- Health, Featured
- October 17, 2024
Seventy-five percent of the revenue from Fox News’ evening news is from pharmaceutical companies. This is according to an interview Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did with Valuetainment at the beginning of 2024. These pharma ads air during prime-time slots, and despite the decline in legacy media, as recently as April of this year, 1.9 million
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America Is Undergoing a Political Realignment 3
- Featured, Health, Politics
- October 16, 2024
When I was growing up, the left regularly criticized Big Pharma and its influence on American politics. As recently as 2015, progressive stalwart Elizabeth Warren had “Big Pharma in her sights.” The right, meanwhile, was slow to criticize pharmaceutical companies. That dynamic was even evident in lobbying, with about 55 percent of Big Pharma’s political
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Big Pharma’s Rap Sheet 7
- Health, MomThink, Science
- October 11, 2024
It was one of those conversations you never forget. We were discussing – of all things – the Covid injections, and I was questioning the early ‘safe and effective’ claims put forward by the pharmaceutical industry. I felt suspicious of how quickly we had arrived at that point of seeming consensus despite a lack of
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