June 14, 2008
· Filed under Health Insurance
Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) are fighting back against insurance companies that care more about profits than people.
CNA/NNOC members, nurses, doctors, patients and Americans of every stripe will join in a national day of protest against insurance companies June 19. In more than 15 cities from Baltimore to Pittsburgh to [...]
March 29, 2008
· Filed under Health Insurance
The ruling JLP seems committed to keeping a number of promises that were made on the campaign trail. Significantly, they have already held faith in removing the fees for tuition to students at the secondary level of education. The greatest test is yet to come now that the government has decided to go ahead with [...]
March 1, 2008
· Filed under Mental Health
Bod4God is one of a growing number of weight-loss programs that use faith as motivation to change unhealthy habits. Unlike Weight Watchers and other mainstream diet programs, religion-based plans such as Weigh Down and First Place use biblical teachings to show followers that their bodies are temples that belong to God [...]
February 24, 2008
· Filed under Care Health
Some players threatened to sit out the game as a protest. However, Athletic Director Rick Greenspan, who asked for Sampson’s resignation, said he expected the players to participate at Northwestern and the program to move forward after one of the darkest chapters in program history.
“I feel a significant disappointment, first and foremost, for [...]
February 16, 2008
· Filed under Care Health
Juro fidelidad to the flag?
Sandy Elementary leaders thought offering the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish and English would be a great way to celebrate diversity.
But, some parents chimed in that “I pledge allegiance” should not be “Juro fidelidad.” So, to avoid controversy, [...]
February 10, 2008
· Filed under Health Sexual
KEARNS February has been anything but a good month for Allison Baver.
Battling injuries, illness and having been forced to take nearly a year off training to deal with a heart problem, Baver one of the most experienced and familiar skaters on the U.S. [...]
February 9, 2008
· Filed under Health Sexual
LDS Church members gamely took it on the chin during Mitt Romney’s failed attempt to win the Republican presidential nomination.
National polls early in the campaign revealed Americans to have reservations about a Mormon as president. Anti-Mormon sentiment, especially among evangelical Christians, ran high. At least [...]
February 9, 2008
· Filed under Health News
In 1990, he went on holiday to California and never came back. Three months after he arrived on America’s west coast, his tourist visa expired and he became an illegal immigrant; four years later, his British passport ran out. As the years passed by, returning home seemed increasingly out of the question: legally, financially, physically, [...]
February 3, 2008
· Filed under Health Sexual
Lonnie Pursifull already was planning early Saturday morning, long before funeral services began for LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley, to meet with Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church leaders, specifically Westboro founder Fred Phelps Sr.
“So, when he gets here at 10 o’clock, I’m going to preach [...]
February 3, 2008
· Filed under Health Sexual
A Utah County woman convicted of fatally force-feeding her adopted 4-year-old daughter water will ask the Utah Supreme Court next week to set aside her sentence, claiming the jury should have given her consideration that as a parent, she knew what was best for her child.
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