Autism Insurance Coverage Bill Introduced in Maryland House and Senate
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Annapolis, MD (January 29, 2009) – Today, Delegate Kirill Reznik and Senator Kathy Klausmeier, with the strong support of Attorney General Doug Gansler, introduced bills in the House and Senate to ensure that treatment for children with autism is covered by insurers.
The “Autism Insurance Coverage” bill [...]
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House Bill 273
February 6th, 2009 · No Comments
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Do you wear your CPAP machine like you are supposed to?
January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Earlier this week when I looked at PostSecret, beneath this particular secret there was an email note from a woman, but for some reason Frank took it down. I can’t remember exactly what it said, but it was about her boyfriend and his CPAP machine. She was very sad to read this particular secret because [...]
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4′8″ tall means failure in China
December 4th, 2008 · 9 Comments
On the National Geographic website I watched a video about a subject that fits in with my Body Politics; bone stretching. Apparently in China you will have a hard time being successful in business and even dating if you aren’t tall enough. The video shows a bone stretching clinic and some patients. It can take [...]
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Planned Parenthood Gift Certificates – The Gift of Healthcare
December 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Before I go on to the Planned Parenthood section of this post, is anybody aware of any clinics with real doctors and nurses for crisis pregnancy, pap tests, prenatal care etc. That does not do abortions as well? Is there a Christian clinic network or a “conservative clinic” network out there that I am unaware [...]
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Pro-Life, Pro-Obama
December 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Below the *** is some info from the Matthew25 Network. It was obviously written during the campaign – hence the McCain comments. However, all I am interested in is showing how some of Obama’s policies will help reduce abortion rates.
Some people say some pretty disgusting and ignorant things about Obama regarding babies.
In any case, I [...]
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Synthetic Viruses Could Explain Animal-to-Human Jumps
November 25th, 2008 · No Comments
In a technical tour de force with potentially profound implications for the study of emerging diseases, researchers have built the largest-ever self-replicating organism from scratch.
The organism is a virus based on genome sequences taken from a bat-borne version of SARS, a lethal respiratory disease that jumped from animals to humans in 2002. The synthetic virus [...]