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• In Memoriam with Love

  November 19th, 2009
  It is with great sorrow that we share the news of the passing of Karen Kisslinger. Karen believed that compassion is the only true source of power and was deeply committed ...

• Out Past the Breakers: Surviving and Thriving Beyond the Western Medical Approach to Cancer

  November 10th, 2008
  Karen L. Kisslinger. The first time I went to the beach was in Hawaii in 1967. I walked up to the edge of the water and almost immediately got washed away ...

Published on the Huffington Post

• The Fierce Urgency of Now: This is the Moment for Sane Health Care Policy

  September 9th, 2009
  Until the profit essence is taken off the table and progressive, prevention-based health care is understood to be a basic public service, there will b …   |more…|

• Real Health(y) Care Reform: It’s World Breastfeeding Awareness Week

  August 5th, 2009
  Far too little attention is given to the fact that it is well known that access to breast milk in infancy and beyond is protective against later chil …   |more…|

• Ba(ra)ck to the Word “Stupid”

  July 31st, 2009
  One meaning of the word stupid relates to being “stupefied.” By its definition, I think Crowley and Gates were probably both stupefied by the situatio …   |more…|

• Social Life, Social Animal, Social Studies, Social Skills…Why Not Social-ized Health Care?

  April 15th, 2009
  I’m ready to take care of myself and my community and help my community stay healthy. Maybe that’s what social-ism can mean if we rethink and redefin …   |more…|

• Caution America: Your Economy Needs You Sick; the Sicker the Better

  April 14th, 2009
  “It’s crazy to watch obese, diseased people line up to buy bags full of prescription drugs in the same shopping cart they are buying bags full of cand …   |more…|

• Change We Can Be Livin’ In: Health Democracy in America

  February 5th, 2009
  During the recent pre-inaugural concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Tom Hanks read the last words of…   |more…|

• People’s Field, Citizens’ Stadium; Taxpayers’ Park….Anything But CitiField

  December 4th, 2008
  Why should the Met’s new home be called Citi stadium if, without the work and tax revenues of the American working people, this bailout of the financi …   |more…|

• Middle Class McCain Supporters: Stupid or Ignorant?

  November 3rd, 2008
  The world can’t afford the American middle class to remain ignorant, and we certainly can’t afford any more years of hateful, lying nasty politics.   |more…|

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Published in the Poughkeepsie Journal

• Everyday choices can bring you lasting health

  October 5th, 2008
  What I'm also grateful for is how I feel at 60. Having gone on a macrobiotic healing program when I first found out about my illness, I have maintained my ...

• Replace kids’ TV, computer time with quality time

  September 7th, 2008
  But as summer winds down and children return to school, the sedentary nature of much of modern life becomes newly emphasized. Unfortunately, we sometimes need to be reminded to keep ...