Pelosi, Sebelius declare “a new day for women’s preventive care”
Posted by rheine on Aug 1, 2012 at 1:59 PMThe benefits of the 2010 health reform law continue to roll out. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius took to the pages of USA Today to celebrate women’s preventive care benefits…
Emphasizing healthy child development – from birth to adulthood
Posted by Matthew Wright on Feb 28, 2012 at 8:27 AMIt is encouraging that more children are now enrolled in health insurance programs. As health insurance costs have risen and employer-based family coverage declined, the two federal programs designed to provide health services for kids —Medicaid and the Children’s Health…
Washington, D.C., program addresses racial gap in breastfeeding
Posted by rheine on Jan 3, 2012 at 2:52 PMBreastfeeding is very important to ensuring that children get the best, healthiest start to life. Health experts recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a child’s life and continued breastfeeding for the child’s first year. Yet fewer than…
