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It’s time to rewrite the nation’s chemical policy
By: BlueGirl Tuesday January 19, 2010 3:00 pm
(Promoted by jasonrosenbaum - Following up on Jill Richardson's post this weekend. )

If the average American knew just how unregulated the chemical industry is in this country, there would be an epidemic of adult-onset thumb-sucking as people crawled under their beds with an organic cotton blankie and refused to come out.

If I told you about a nation that, in an effort to cater to business interests, sacrifices common sense and consumer safety on the alter on the free market in the process of “regulating” an industry that can potentially kill their customers, you would think it insane. But that is precisely the way our country regulates the chemical industry: exactly backwards.

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We are not helpless
By: BlueGirl Thursday October 1, 2009 7:22 am

Risk factors and even a diagnosis of breast cancer are one thing. How we approach them, how we deal with them and other extraneous factors are vital and there are things we can do to be proactive and reduce our chances of occurrence and recurrence.

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Healthcare Reform is Coming, Whether the AMA Likes It or Not
By: BlueGirl Thursday June 11, 2009 12:56 pm

Healthcare reform is coming, and the AMA can’t do a damned thing about it. Join me in giving them a collective raspberry.

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