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Critters are always ready to help hoomins feel better.
by strawbale
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is delivering disability compensation benefits to a record 702,557* women Veterans, an increase of 180,959 over the past five years. This is largely due to the PACT Act, which expanded health care and benefits to...
by C0RI0LANUS
on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 03:17 AM PDT
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Update: I was contacted by the ONA about this article after it posted yesterday, and they request I hold off for a day until they had a chance to make their strike notice official. I certainly don’t want to make their jobs harder, so I was happy to do...
by DoctorBeast68
on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 10:03 AM PST
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A short one today.
My wife has had four surgeries in the last three years (including yesterday), three of them lifesaving (one more and she gets the next one free), and my son one and a long stay ...
by angryea
on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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from CNN Oct 6 The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all,” ...the Norwegian Nobel Committee...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Oct 07, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Here in Floriduh, we keep hearing about the dire teacher shortage, and the nurse shortage and the shortage of child care workers and nursing home workers and …… What I never seem to see in these stories is the fact that professions that are...
by katepez
on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 06:55 AM PDT
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And what’s missing from your med recs can hurt you, too. Case study: a non-mainstream Medicaid patient with years of extensive musculoskeletal damage (among other ills), fully imaged and documented, including the surgeries involved. She struggles for...
by mettle fatigue
on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 02:55 PM PDT
with 87 Recommends
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via ACA Consumer Advocacy (disclosure: I’m on their advisory board, but no, I didn’t write the copy) Join us for an online update on what is going on in states around the country for health care reform from renowned ACA guru, Charles Gaba. Please...
by Brainwrap
on Tue Jun 27, 2023 at 07:45 AM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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via ACA Consumer Advocacy (disclosure: I’m on their advisory board, but no, I didn’t write the copy) Join us for an online update on what is going on in states around the country for health care reform from renowned ACA guru, Charles Gaba. Please...
by Brainwrap
on Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 12:29 PM PDT
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In one of the largest healthcare deals to date, Kaiser Permanente is acquiring Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health and investing $5 billion to fold it into a new nonprofit subsidiary called Risant Health, which is set to purchase additional medical...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat May 20, 2023 at 01:44 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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Since Ukraine has been in the news so much this week, on the 1-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, I thought I’d look into the history of women’s rights in Ukraine. This is necessarily brief, given that I don’t have a whole lot of...
by elenacarlena
on Sat Feb 25, 2023 at 05:16 PM PST
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fox9.com/video The Black 'Rosie the Riveters': The 600,000 women of color who broke barriers during WWII A six-minute video introducing Invisible Warriors: African American Women in WWII {separate website),which premiered TODAY at the...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Feb 11, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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Stalking has been referred to as murder in slow motion, which I can personally attest is true. January is National Stalking Awareness Month. According to The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 1:3 women and 1:6 men will experience...
by SusannaSGibson
on Thu Jan 26, 2023 at 09:51 AM PST
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1/9/23 Update: Well, here we go, just as I predicted when I posted this diary below in September, a year ago. (Not this exact strike, but the causes behind it.) Starting at 6 AM today, over 7,000 nurses walked out of 2 NYC hospitals according to the...
by Ashwa Girl
on Tue Jan 10, 2023 at 02:05 PM PST
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Thousands of nurses in New York went on strike Monday in an effort to demand better pay, working conditions, and address staffing needs. Amid the global pandemic, nurses across the country were in high demand, with health care workers struggling with...
by Aysha Qamar
on Mon Jan 09, 2023 at 04:25 PM PST
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by Angmar
on Sat Dec 17, 2022 at 05:00 PM PST
with 38 Recommends
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For months I’ve been hearing from male pundits and journalists that abortion wasn’t going to be an issue in this election. Despite an overwhelming victory in the Kansas referendum in August (...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
on Sat Nov 12, 2022 at 05:00 PM PST
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US NatlParkService How Native American Women Inspired the Women’s Rights Movement “Never was justice more perfect; never was civilization higher,” suffrage leader Matilda Joslyn Gage wrote of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy .... [For 20...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Nov 05, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Imagine having a friendly conversation with young medical and nursing students in a coffee shop. Out of the blue, one of them asks, “What advice would you give us as future doctors and nurses? What can we learn from you to help our own patients in the...
by babushka
on Thu Oct 13, 2022 at 08:35 AM PDT
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Mental healthcare workers in KaiserPerm/Hawaii last week joined the since-Aug.16 striking northern California KP clinicians, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, medical social workers, ...
by mettle fatigue
on Sun Sep 04, 2022 at 10:55 AM PDT
with 14 Recommends
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