Opinions: Clean Water; Oversight Of U.N. Bookkeeping; Obama's Global Health Goals; Maternal Mortality

Clean Water Needs To Be Priority For Haiti “Long before the earthquake, Haiti was mired in a crisis that only a few experts noticed – a severe lack of clean drinking water,” writes Joseph Treaster, editor of the University of Miami’s Internet magazine on global water issues and the environment, in a Miami Herald opinion piece that examines the interconnectedness…

Blogs Comment On Antiabortion Super Bowl Ad, Health Reform Prospects, Other Topics

The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “CBS To Air First Super Bowl Abortion Ad,” Elizabeth Gettelman, Mother Jones’ “Mojo”: Former University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow “is taking televangelism to a whole new level” by appearing with his mother in a Super Bowl commercial sponsored by the antiabortion-rights group Focus on the Family, Gettelman writes…

12 Days of a Menopausal Christmas

Original lyrics to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” as sung the way only a woman in menopause can sing it!

Canada To 'Champion' Major G8 Initiative To Tackle Maternal, Child Mortality

As president of the G8 in 2010, “Canada will champion a new G8 identity focused on ending child mortality and other health woes in poorer countries when it hosts the club of industrialized nations in June, the government said Tuesday,” Agence France-Presse reports…

Bayh Urges Dems To Move To The Center; Nelson Says He Cannot Support National Exchange

The Wall Street Journal: “Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, the very embodiment of calm understatement, seems an unlikely character to play the role of scold. But in recent weeks – particularly after last week’s Massachusetts mauling – he has been scolding his Democratic Party, and sternly…

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