I'm Still Not Tired - Larkin Callaghan

Larkin Callaghan recently completed her doctorate in health behavior and public health education at Columbia, focusing on women's health and global health development. With research and program experience in HIV and sexual health, social network building, trauma and violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and how socioeconomic status and history of abuse contribute to health and social mobility, she specializes in women's and adolescent health, population health, communication and social marketing and the health of vulnerable populations - and how they relate to one another. She also works as a UN Correspondent for MediaGlobal, covering issues affecting the least developed countries, with a not-exclusive focus on global health. She posts about public health, sociology and social justice, human rights, research, and gender. She manages the Reproductive Health Daily Tumblr and is a fellow in Health Communication and Epidemiology at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, where she writes and uses social and new media to promote research that focuses on health disparities, access and rights. She’s an avid runner and a California loyalist, and also posts longer opinion pieces on I'm Not Tired Yet at https://larkincallaghan.wordpress.com/.
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Sandy Aftermath Highlights Need for Storm Surge Protection Design →

Great piece on the issues surrounding storm surge protection in the context of Sandy aftermath.

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pewresearch: A Bipartisan Nation of Beneficiaries As President Barack Obama negotiates with Republicans in Congress over federal entitlement spending, a new national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that a majority of Americans (55%) have received government benefits from at least one of the six best-known federal entitlement programs. Read more from the latest study by Pew Social and Demographic Trends.

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A Bipartisan Nation of Beneficiaries

As President Barack Obama negotiates with Republicans in Congress over federal entitlement spending, a new national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that a majority of Americans (55%) have received government benefits from at least one of the six best-known federal entitlement programs.

Read more from the latest study by Pew Social and Demographic Trends.

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RH Reality Check: Texas Abortion Drug Bill Could Mean More Side Effects and Higher Costs →

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Written by Mary Tuma for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.

Published in partnership with The American Independent.

A GOP lawmaker is looking to make Texas the latest state to…

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How The Tragic Death Of A Woman Denied An Abortion In Ireland Could Become The Norm In America →

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We have to constantly be on watch for the incremental steps being taken to chip away at reproductive rights.

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reprohealthdaily: NPR has a fantastic infographic that shows the spread of HIV from 1990 covering a range of countries, the charting of HIV and country wealth (this photo), and the spread by region - check out their post to see the highlighting features of the graph.

reprohealthdaily:

NPR has a fantastic infographic that shows the spread of HIV from 1990 covering a range of countries, the charting of HIV and country wealth (this photo), and the spread by region - check out their post to see the highlighting features of the graph.

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Competing interests? NO WAY! source2012: Overlapping interests? How often are lawmakers trading stocks of companies with a vested interest in the very legislation they over see? Pretty often, a new Washington Post analysis of OpenSecrets.org data and other records finds. Almost one in eight trades made by Congress between 2007 and 2010 intersected with legislation that could impact that company. wapo: One-hundred-thirty members of Congress or their families have traded stocks collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars in companies lobbying on bills that came before their committees, a practice that is permitted under current ethics rules, a Washington Post analysis has found. The lawmakers bought and sold a total of between $85 million and $218 million in 323 companies registered to lobby on legislation that appeared before them, according to an examination of all 45,000 individual congressional stock transactions contained in computerized financial disclosure data from 2007 to 2010.

Competing interests? NO WAY!

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Overlapping interests?

How often are lawmakers trading stocks of companies with a vested interest in the very legislation they over see? Pretty often, a new Washington Post analysis of OpenSecrets.org data and other records finds. Almost one in eight trades made by Congress between 2007 and 2010 intersected with legislation that could impact that company.

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One-hundred-thirty members of Congress or their families have traded stocks collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars in companies lobbying on bills that came before their committees, a practice that is permitted under current ethics rules, a Washington Post analysis has found.

The lawmakers bought and sold a total of between $85 million and $218 million in 323 companies registered to lobby on legislation that appeared before them, according to an examination of all 45,000 individual congressional stock transactions contained in computerized financial disclosure data from 2007 to 2010.

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