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Taking Care of Mind and Body is Critical to U.S. Health Care Reform

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This post is a part of our series of contributions for Social Good Day.

Type “health challenges facing the U.S.” into your favorite search engine. I imagine that the results won’t be all too surprising. You’ll find stories about what’s coming next as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is implemented. You’ll read about the burden that preventable chronic [...]

Family Farmers Can Help Diminish U.S. Health and Environment Crises

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This post is a part of our series of contributions for Social Good Day.

While Americans struggle to heed advice to eat less, move more and stay out of their cars, most pundits have overlooked one of the key approaches to addressing our country’s health and environmental problems–supporting and promoting fresh, non-processed food from family [...]

InSites to Participate in Social Good Day on September 23

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Tomorrow, InSites bloggers will be celebrating Social Good Day by contributing blog posts about the issues central to our work at Vanguard Communications.  According to Mashable and (RED), Social Good Day is an opportunity to provide solutions to the challenges facing our world:

We’re interested in unleashing fresh thinking about how social media can raise [...]

AP Creates an Oil Spill Editor — New Trend in Covering the Gulf Coast Disaster

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On Wednesday, the Associated Press (AP) announced the appointment of former Jerusalem bureau chief Steve Gutkin as their new “Oil Spill Editor.” According to a memo sent to AP staff and released to the Poynter Institute:

The Gulf Oil spill has been an enormous journalistic challenge. A sprawling story, much of it occurring literally out [...]

Live Blog: Department of Health and Human Services' Community Health Forum

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Good morning!  Today we will be live blogging the Community Health Forum: Harnessing the Power of Information to Improve Health, put on by the Department of Health and Human Services.  The event runs from 9:00 until 10:30, and will feature a number of fantastic speakers.  We are waiting for everything to get started, and [...]