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Smog Increasing Risks Of Premature Births By 128%

treehugger.com | Posted 06.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Asthma, Premature Birth, California, Mother, Baby, High Blood Pressure, Cardiovascular Diseases, Los Angeles, Premature Baby, Moms, Babies, Green News

A comparison of medical records from 81,186 single child births to air pollution levels in the area revealed that high pollution exposure raised the r...

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Obama's Health Plan: What Matters the Most is Missing

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 06.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Psoriasis, Depression, Chronic Disease, Osteoarthiritis, Asthma, Health Care Reform, Adhd, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Chronic Illness, Obesity, Medicine, Functional Medicine, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Health, Wellness, Living News
Mark Hyman, MD

To effectively reform healthcare in the U.S., we must change not only the way we practice medicine, but also the type of medicine we practice.

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Seasonal Allergies Take One Mother's Breath Away

Susan Weissman | Posted 05.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Asthma, Parenting, Childhood Allergies, Food Allergies, Pollution and Asthma, Allergies, Living News
Susan Weissman

My son, Eden, was three years old before he revealed the limits of his lungs (read: allergic asthma.) It happened after what already seemed like a lifetime of severe food allergies.

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An Open Letter to Michelle Obama, Mother-In-Chief

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 05.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Adhd, Peanut Allergy, Michelle Obama, Children, Food Politics, Asthma, Food Safety, Food Regulation, Food Scare, Diabetes, Obesity, Children's Health, Allergies, Living News
Robyn O'Brien

As you crusade for the health of our children, please know that mothers around the country stand beside you. Our collective abilities can and will bring the change that our children deserve.

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A Toxic Lesson

Javier Sierra | Posted 04.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Juan Parras, Latinos, Lisa Jackson, Environmental Justice, Javier Sierra, Epa, Hispanic, Air Quality, Pollution, Lungs, Texas, Hispanics and the Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Education, Sierra Club, Cesar Chavez High School, Houston, Latinos and the Environment, Contamination, Toxic Schools, Asthma, Schools, Green News
Javier Sierra

In more than half of the investigated schools, students were in danger of contracting cancer and respiratory diseases because of the presence of toxic compounds.

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It's Not Just AIG, Friends

Paula Gordon | Posted 03.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Microparticulates, Southern Company, Bad Air, Sonny Perdue, Asthma, Toxicity, Johnny Isakson, Crony Capitalists, Saxby Chambliss, Heart Disease, Pollution, Air Pollution, Georgia Power, Green News
Paula Gordon

I don't think being outdoors should be life-threatening. Southern Company, a power company behemoth providing some 5% of the United States' electricity, acts on a very different premise.

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Will Obama's Food Safety Team Finally Regulate the Biggest Food Safety Hazard of Our Time

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Food Safety Working Group, Food Safety, Obama, White House Organic Garden., Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods, America’s Diet, Obesity, Organic, Genetically Modified Organisms, Margaret Hamburg, Monsanto, Regulations, Fda, Asthma, Gmos, Diabetes, Food and Drug Administration, Genetically Modified Foods, Allergies, Politics News
Jeffrey Smith

If President Obama's new Food Safety Working Group dedicates all their time and credentials to prevent future food recalls, they will have saved thous...

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On Vaccinations: Consider the Source and Follow the Money

Deirdre Imus | Posted 02.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Ms, Mercury, Asthma, Vaccine Court, Vaccine, Autism, Cdc, Greening Vaccines, New Vaccine Schedule, Allergies, Alternative Vaccine Schedule, Living News
Deirdre Imus

A vaccine profiteer personified (he is now a multimillionaire from his partnership with Merck) Dr. Offit continues to make intellectually and factually dishonest remarks regarding vaccine safety.

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The Promise of Public Health

Amy L. Fairchild, Ph.D. and Ronald Bayer, Ph.D. | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Bush SCHIP Veto, Global Economy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Children's Health Insurance, George W. Bush, President Obama, Barack Obama Health Care, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Global Economic Crisis, Chronic Disease, Chronic Diseases in Children, Asthma, Bush SCHIP, State Children's Health, Schip, Great Depression, New Deal, Michael Bloomberg, Public Health, Bush Veto SCHIP, Tuberculosis, State Children's Health Insurance Program, Barack Obama, New York City, HIV/AIDS, Health, Federal Government, Healthcare Reform, Children's Health, Healthcare, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Politics News
Amy L. Fairchild, Ph.D. and Ronald Bayer, Ph.D.

Like the provision of medical care to the ill, an effective health system -- which keeps children and adults from becoming sick in the first place -- depends on both vision and commitment.

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Don't Risk Going Unvaccinated

Paul A. Offit, MD | Posted 01.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Sickness, Measles, World, Children, Multiple Sclerosis, United States, Dehydration, Death, Vaccines, Polio, Us Measles Cases Rising, Pneumonia, Chemotherapy, Us Measles Cases, Health, Disease, Romania, Asthma, Autism, Epidemic, Vaccine, Cancer, Autism Vaccines, Diabetes, Children's Health, Allergies, Living News
Paul A. Offit, MD

If parents choose not to vaccinate their children, not only do they put their own children at risk, they put others at risk as well.

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What New Orleans Lost in Cayne

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Cayne Miceli, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, Dr. John, Asthma, Pollution and Asthma, Charity Hospital, Politics News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

Cayne went to Tulane Medical Center during asthmatic distress and was given a dose of prednisone, a drug which she had suffered a bad reaction to before.

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Peaceful Revolution: When Did It Get So Hard To Be A Mom?

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 01.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Causes of Autism, Genetically Engineered Foods, Asthma, Food Safety, Adhd, Autism, Parenting, Fda, Momsrising, Peanut Allergies, Food Dyes, Parenting and Food, Chemicals and Autism, Sick Children, Living News
Robyn O'Brien

Ten years ago, we didn't worry about sending a peanut butter and jelly sandwiches into school with our children, and we didn't medicate our eight year olds to get them through the school day.

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Momonomics 103: The Price Tag of Health Care

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Epa, Politics, Fda, Health Care Costs, Economy, Health, Asthma, Adhd, Food, Diabetes, Health Care, Allergies, Living News
Robyn O'Brien

Today it is estimated that 50 per cent of Hispanic and African-American children will develop diabetes, that 1 in 90 boys has autism, and that 1 in 4 children has asthma.

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Study: Autumn Babies At Greater Risk Of Asthma

Yahoo! News | Julie Steenhuysen | Posted 11.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Asthma, Babies, Personal Health, Study, Living News

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Day One: There Is a New Green in Town

Sloan Barnett | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Disease, Books, Green, Environment, Asthma, Green Living, Enviromentalism, Green News
Sloan Barnett

The cause of my son's asthma may have been me. I may have been poisoning my own son by using certain cleaning products.

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Environmental Racism Takes Hold In California

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Environmental Justice, Environmentalism, Los Angeles, Oil Refining, Racial Politics, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental, Environmental Racism, Los Angeles Pollution, Environment, Asthma, Racism, Air Pollution, Green News
Olivia Zaleski

Don't we all deserve clean air? The answer seems obvious, but in the predominantly Latino, Black and poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Southern Los An...

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How Close Is Too Close? Allergy And Asthma Rates 50% Higher Near Highways

TheDailyGreen.com | Dan Shapley | Posted 06.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Pollution and Asthma, Severe Allergies, Bronx Pollution, Asthma, Pollution, Air Pollution, Green News

A study of nearly 6,000 children in Munich has found that children are much more likely to develop asthma, allergies and skin rashes if they live near...

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It's Not Easy Breathing Green

Gregg Mitman | Posted 05.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Asthma, Asthma Inhalers, Glaxosmithkline, HFA Inhalers, Green Technology, Living News
Gregg Mitman

The unfolding tragedy is that those who can least afford the new inhaler technology for asthmatics are the ones most affected by the shift to the new green economy.

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Where Do They Come Up With All Those Goofy Names for Prescription Drugs Anyway?

Doug Bremner | Posted 04.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Asthma, Antipsychotics, Drugs, Medications, Eric Rudolph, Living News
Doug Bremner

I was spreading pine straw around the bushes in my yard in Atlanta, Georgia, when I started thinking about... you guessed it! The goofy names that drug companies come up with for their prescription drugs.

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Growing Up Green! - Fulfilling a Mission and Empowering Parents for a Healthier Next Generation

Deirdre Imus | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Toys, Pesticides, Depression, Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, Adhd, Learning Disorders, Toxic, Baby, Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids With Cancer, Healthy Kids, Heart Condition, Bipolar, Growing Up Green, Imus Ranch, Obesity, Vaccines, Toxins, Green This, Hackensack University Medical Center, Child, Severe Allergies, Asthma, Ocd, Pdd, Living News
Deirdre Imus

If most childhood diseases are preventable...why are so many on the rise? Because toxic chemicals are everywhere and not enough attention is being given to prevention.

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Blythe Danner Plus Natural Gas Garbage Trucks = Real Greening, Not "Green Washing"

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Greening, Environmental Justice, Sustainable South Bronx, Smithtown, Green Garbage Trucks, Green, Environmentalism, Union Square, Gwyneth Paltrow, New York City, Natural Gas Garbage Trucks, Blythe Danner, Haulers, Environment, Asthma, Natural Gas, Garbage Trucks, Business News
Linda Cronin-Gross

Today, as she has done countless times over the last 35 years, actor Blythe Danner stood up for the environment. Not the newly-sexy environment, but ...

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If Prescription Meds Don't Kill You They Might Drive You Crazy

Doug Bremner | Posted 04.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Depression, Zyflo, Montelukast, Accolate, Side Effects, Singulair, Asthma, Suicide, Zafirlukast, Anxiety, Living News
Doug Bremner

It's bad enough that it can drive you crazy trying to get your prescription medications filled, but now it looks like sometimes your prescription meds themselves can make you, well... nuts.

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Green For All (For Martin Luther King): The New Color Of The New Civil Rights Movement

Katie Halper | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environmental Racism, Martin Luther King, Green for All, Dream Reborn Martin Luther KIng, Martin Luther King Jr., Asthma, Katrina, 40th Anniversary, Martin Luther King Assassination, The Dream Reborn: A Gathering to Honor Dr. King, Poverty, Environment, Environmentalism, Politics News
Katie Halper

Although often presented as "single issues" poverty, racism, and environmental degradation are interlinked, as low-income people suffer disproportionately from cancer, asthma and other respiratory ailments.

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Pediatricians, ABC and Censorship: Facts Are Scarier Than Fiction

David Kirby | Posted 01.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Abc, Eli Stone, Asthma, Mercury, Autism, Censorship, Vaccines, Aap, Living News
David Kirby

Even if America's pediatricians manage to successfully censor fiction and crush artistic freedom, they will never be able to stifle the facts about autism.

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