WHEN IN DOUBT, DANCE IT OUT! Evan Kharrazi’s Approach to Caring
Evan Kharrazi is a caregiver, a dancer, a wellness coach and an entrepreneur. Evan took his personal experience and built ChillTime TV – an app for caregivers seeking to embed…
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WHAT HAPPENED NEXT: WHEN A CAREGIVER GOT CANCER
Paid or unpaid, caregivers are never supposed to get sick, right? But sometimes we do. Sue Robins owns a health care communications company and she also happens to be the…
HOSPITALS NEED KINDNESS POLICE STAT!
This is my cyber friend and fellow disability Mom/activist, Sue Robins. Sue is a wonderful writer and regular blogger. I was so outraged by Sue’s hospital experience being treated for…
HOSPITALS NEED KINDNESS POLICE STAT!
This is my cyber friend and fellow disability Mom/activist, Sue Robins. Sue is a wonderful writer and regular blogger. I was so outraged by Sue’s hospital experience being treated for…
Person Of The Year
And now it’s time to make the long awaited announcement! Neath Turcot’s Person Of The Year *gnaws open envelope* And the winner is…for making something artful, for bringing sublime elegance…
P.INK takes heathcare to an unexpected place: the tattoo parlour
As a man with no tattoos, Noel Franus is an unlikely candidate as the founder of P.INK: an organization that connects breast cancer survivors with tattoo ideas and artists. But…
Interview with Dr. James Brophy about a groundbreaking study on the links between workplace pollutants and breast cancer
Download: james-brophy-edited.mp3 On Earthgauge Radio this week, I featured an interview with Dr. James Brophy who is an adjunct professor at the University of Windsor and the co-author of a…
Earthgauge Radio December 13 2012: Cancer in the workplace and the crisis of ocean acidification
Download: earthgauge-podcast-dec13-20122.mp3 This week on Earthgauge Radio, we’re talking about environmental health and ocean acidification. I have two interviews on the program today: Dr. James Brophy, co-author of a groundbreaking…
On Earthgauge Radio tomorrow: Getting cancer at work and the ticking timebomb of ocean acidification
Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio, I am pleased to present a feature interview with Dr. James Brophy, who is the co-author of a groundbreaking new study demonstrating that women working in…
Is Your Water Bottle Giving You Cancer? New Study Reveals Shocking BPA Dangers
BPA Image.jpg Bisphenol A, or BPA for short, has been in the spotlight for decades, with both the chemical industry and occasionally the federal government touting its safety, while independent,…
What Breast Cancer Is and Is Not
Susan G. Komen Run for the Cure doesn’t have much of a direct presence on this side of the border, so I could watch the recent public relations train wreck…
Fallout from the Komen disaster. New-found power for pro-choice voices.
Sitting back after the dust has settled on Susan G. Komen’s awkward about-face (which is actually no about-face at all but a bit of temporary cover), one thing has become…
The Komen Decision that was Totally Not Political
…but was secretly nurtured and guided by former Bush Press Secretary and Planned Parenthood critic Ari Fleisher: Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush and prominent right-wing pundit,…
The ever shifting winds at the Susan G. Komen foundation
You can usually tell a guilty person by the way that person shifts the excuses for a crime. The more the excuses change and evolve, the guiltier the person appears.…
The Personal gets Political
Nearly two dozen US Senators have signed onto a letter urging the Susan G Komen Foundation to reverse its despicable and sleazy Planned Parenthood decision: The pressure on the Susan…
Lizz Winstead knocks it out of the park re: Komen and Planned Parenthood
Of all the posts, tweets and articles on the Komen Cave, Winstead brings the fire and the facts together in the best summation of the whole bamboozle by Brinker and…
Planned Parenthood gains back the $ it lost to ideology-driven Susan G. Komen turnabout
From Dammit Janet! While the the big news, and the ultimately sad news, is that the Susan G. Komen foundation has allowed far-right evangelical ideology to interfere with its formerly…
Planned Parenthood gains back the $ it lost to ideology-driven Susan G. Komen turnabout
From Dammit Janet! While the the big news, and the ultimately sad news, is that the Susan G. Komen foundation has allowed far-right evangelical ideology to interfere with its formerly…
All About the Timing
The movie “Pink Ribbons“, which explores breast cancer fundraising by groups like Susan G Komen, is being released tomorrow. Komen’s decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood has been in…
#Occupy The Cure
I’ve either got the flu or I’m nauseated by the Susan G. Komen/Planned Parenthood fiasco. I’ll take Door #2, SGK/PP, for $200 — the donation that will now go fucking…