Tag Archives: health

combating the stigma of cervical cancer

Since last month, Tamika Felder has been putting in a lot of overtime hours. The 34-year-old TV producer and on-air talent spends her days prepping guests, handling contracts and overseeing shoots, but after hours is when she begins the job … Continue reading

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how do heroin addicts do it?

After more than a year of chemotherapy, my precious veins are shot. Those inch-long needles have done some serious damage to my once-healthy blood vessels, and the oncology nurses have informed me that they probably won’t recover. Great. Stupid cancer … Continue reading

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how roland burris punked the democrats & saved the public option

This is a piece that I wrote for TheRoot.com. Considering the events of the last week, though, I thought it was important to re-post it here. When Illinois Sen. Roland Burris took office almost a year ago, he already appeared … Continue reading

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Filed under health care, healthy and wise, the uninsured and underinsured