From the Susan G. Komen Foundation: Did you know that cancer will soon be the leading killer of women and men worldwide? Already, cancer kills more people annually than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDs combined. Last year, 7.6 million people died from cancer. By 2020 that number will double, and by 2030 cancer will account for…
President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress tonight to talk about health care reform (transcript here). I’m not afraid to admit that I cheered at times and I cried when he talked about the late Sen. Kennedy and the “character of our country.” I know the conservative chorus is already spinning. I like Obama’s…
So people have been bugging me for weeks to do a post on health care. And since I am a benevolent dictator here at The Siren, your pleas have not fallen on deaf ears. But sometimes the dictator part cancels out the benevolent part. I resent the health care debate because — as I keep…
Sorry for the delay. We were having computer/internet issues here at Siren headquarters.
I’m formulating a post about all this health care reform stuff. But it’s not ready and I do not have time right now to get into all of it. (The short take is that I grew up poor and had very limited access to health care. I’m for all Americans having access to reliable, affordable…
Today, we have guest contributor Annette Magnus, from Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada: Saturday is National HIV Testing Day and Planned Parenthood encourages you to take the first and most important step and get yourself tested. Here are some facts to make sure you are informed about HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). HIV is transmitted in…
I was contacted by Magnolia Pictures about this movie, Food Inc, a documentary about the food industry in America. I watched the trailer and I am very interested. Perhaps you are, too. It opens at Village Square on July 3. If the movie is anything like the website and trailer, this movie really follows my…
I’ve been thinking about Broadsheet’s Plus-size state of the union post all day. The gist of the post is that at the same time that our society is starting to at least acknowledge non-stick-figure models of feminine beauty the recession is causing some retailers — such as Old Navy and Anne Taylor — to do…
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