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Report from Taiwan: Friends Return to the USA to Compare and Contrast

March 28, 2020 By gmoke

My friends and former co-workers, Marc and Sally, love to travel the world and this year spent some of February and March in Taiwan. This is their account of the response of Taiwan to COVID19, the letter they sent to friends after they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: COVID19, pandemic, public-health, social distancing, Taiwan

Hacking COVID19: Open Source Global Brainstorms and Mutual Aid

March 26, 2020 By gmoke

MIT COVID19 Challenge - Beat the Pandemic Friday, April 3 at 6:00pm - Sunday, April 5 Online RSVP at https://covid19challenge.mit.edu We invite you to attend the MIT COVID-19 Challenge event, Beat the Pandemic, a series of virtual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: COVID19, disaster, economics, emergency, gandhi, Gandhian economics, health, mutual aid, nonviolence, pandemic, preparedness, public-health, r-buckminster-fuller, Rebecca Solnit

I’m Running For Congress To Take On The Medical-Industrial Complex

April 3, 2018 By Patrick Littlefield

Everyone in America should be able to access the healthcare they need, regardless of their financial situation. No one should have to choose between going without care or going broke because they got sick or suffered an injury. This … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: affordable care act, congress, healthcare, healthcare costs, MA3, medical industrial complex, Patrick Littlefield, public-health, single-payer healthcare, third congressional, universal single-payer healthcare, universal-healthcare

The Commonwealth Wellness Fund: Paying for Prevention

January 28, 2009 By john-auerbach

And, while Massachusetts has done a good job addressing the problem of underage drinking, the Commonwealth still ranks as one of the states with the highest rates of underage drinking and adult binge drinking.  Youth, in particular, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: governor-patrick, public-health, state-budget

AIDS Lobby Day Thursday January 29 10-12 State House Nurses Hall

January 27, 2009 By aids-action-committee

Continuing FY09 9C budget cuts and the FY10 budget may result in significant budget cuts to public health systems, including HIV/AIDS.  It is vital that the HIV/AIDS community makes its voice heard at the State House to protect the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-cuts, hiv/aids, public-health

United We Stand for Public Health Press Conference today at 1pm

January 22, 2009 By united-we-stand

United We Stand for Public Health is a coalition of public health consumer and provider organizations committed to protecting the public health investment and infrastructure of the Commonwealth that prevents disease and injury and protects … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-cuts, health-care, press-conference, public-health

Off Topic: Neurogenesis and Aerobic Exercise

July 8, 2008 By tblade

Lobes of Steel from The New York Times Magazine: Other recent studies support this theory. At the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, a group of elderly sedentary people were assigned to either an aerobic exercise program or a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: health, public-health, science

Conservatism: Spreading The Disease

March 12, 2008 By joeltpatterson

It's not just that the conservatives made a mistake about Ab-Only--it is that the conservatives' goal was never to reduce disease, never to fight the viruses and bacteria that parasitically destroy people's health. The goal was pork for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abstinence, conservatism, mccain, national, pork, public-health

Deval — what happened to “more than one bottom line?”

January 18, 2008 By margot

AHT, a coalition of over 160 groups around the state including such mainstream organizations as the League of Women Voters, the Massachusetts Public Health Association, and the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition, has  proposed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deval-patrick, public-health, safe-alternatives, toxic-chemicals

Last to Die for Bush’s and His Pals’ @#&*%$#^ Lies

December 9, 2006 By annem

...Darwin Judge.Darwin Judge was a recently deployed 19-year-old when he was killed. Born and raised in Marshalltown, Iowa, he was active in his church and Boy Scouts, pitched for his All-Star team in Little League games, got his first … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: courage, death, health-care, impeachment, iraq, politics, public-health, truth

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