Opinion: When voting rights are weakened, health suffers - AOL

Communities facing voting barriers are often living with higher rates of chronic disease, shorter life expectancy, and reduced access to care.

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The Relentless School Nurse: The Stories Only Grandparents Can Tell

Something extraordinary happened this past week. My granddaughter Nora and I were interviewed by NBC News’ Valerie Castro to talk about something deeply personal, and something urgently impor…

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Grandparents advocate for vaccination by sharing childhood illness stories amid skepticism

Grandparents are sharing their stories of what it was like to endure diseases like polio and measles before vaccines. NBC News' Valerie Castro spoke to a member of 'Grandparents for Vaccines' who hope...

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The Relentless School Nurse: Another School Year is Coming to an End

May 2026 Dear School Nurses, As another school year draws to a close, I find myself thinking about you — all of you. The ones in sprawling health suites and the ones in converted storage rooms. The…

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The Need for Heard Immunity (No, That’s Not a Typo)

Stories have the power to immunize against false ideas.

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The Relentless School Nurse: The Department of Education’s Final Rule Undermines Nursing, And We Will Not Be Silent

The decision is final, and I want to be direct about what it means: the Department of Education has chosen to devalue nursing. The RISE rule is now official, effective July 1, 2026, and advanced nu…

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The Relentless School Nurse: The Department of Education’s Final Rule Undermines Nursing, And We Will Not Be Silent

The decision is final, and I want to be direct about what it means: the Department of Education has chosen to devalue nursing. The RISE rule is now official, effective July 1, 2026, and advanced nu…

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The Relentless School Nurse: When the Words Don’t Come

I didn’t post last week, and for those of you who have been reading this blog for a while, you know that is not like me. Over 1,400 posts across more than a decade of writing about school nur…

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The Relentless School Nurse: When Grandparents Speak, the World Listens – A Conversation About Vaccines, Memory, and Love

There’s a lot of noise right now about vaccines. You’ve seen the headlines, heard the debates, maybe even felt the uncertainty creeping into conversations at family dinners or in your d…

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The Relentless School Nurse: My Last Hill Day – A Reflection on Advocacy, Purpose, and the Work That Matters

There is something powerful about walking the halls of Congress with a clear purpose, knowing exactly why you’re there and exactly who you’re fighting for. I’ve had the privilege of doing that year…

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Health care epidemic of misinformation is rooted in problem of trust, experts say | Medical Economics

Physician communication can build trust and empower patients to make decisions based on fact, not social media claims.

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The Relentless School Nurse: The Most Pressing Issue in School Nursing Is Not What People Think

If you ask school nurses what the most pressing issue in our profession is right now, you will hear many answers. Staffing shortages. Student mental health. Workload. Burnout. Documentation. Delega…

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The Relentless School Nurse: More Than a Spoonful of Sugar

How a Sugar Cube, a Vaccine, and a Generation of Parents Helped End Polio There is a song that most of us can hear in our heads the moment we read the title. Julie Andrews, standing in the nursery …

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The Relentless School Nurse: Grandparents for Vaccines Featured in Maria Shriver’s “Sunday Paper”

Grandparents for Vaccines is featured in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper in an article written by journalist Meghan Rabbitt titled They Remember a World Without Vaccines. I was interviewed for the a…

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The Relentless School Nurse: Grandparents for Vaccines Featured in Maria Shriver’s “Sunday Paper”

Grandparents for Vaccines is featured in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper in an article written by journalist Meghan Rabbitt titled They Remember a World Without Vaccines. I was interviewed for the a…

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The Relentless School Nurse: Sustaining the Profession We Inherited

We inherited a profession that other school nurses built.Now we are responsible for sustaining it. But that is not something most of us understand when we first become school nurses. Most of us…

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The Relentless School Nurse: More Than a Spoonful of Sugar

How a Sugar Cube, a Vaccine, and a Generation of Parents Helped End Polio There is a song that most of us can hear in our heads the moment we read the title. Julie Andrews, standing in the nursery …

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The Relentless School Nurse: The Most Pressing Issue in School Nursing Is Not What People Think

If you ask school nurses what the most pressing issue in our profession is right now, you will hear many answers. Staffing shortages. Student mental health. Workload. Burnout. Documentation. Delega…

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Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

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The Relentless School Nurse: There is Nothing “Just” About Measles

I encourage readers to listen to the Bulwark podcast episode, “Just Measles” Left Her Sister Disabled for Life. The podcast, along with the accompanying article, Meet the Horrified Grandparents Fig…

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