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Leaders of nation’s charitable nonprofits respond to passage of CARES

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 26, 2020 — Following days of heated marathon negotiations, the Senate approved the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the largest emergency aid package in U.S. history. The CARES Act includes more than $2...




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Leading Health Care Groups Issue Urgent Call for Federal Action to Address Medical Equipment Shortages

  WASHINGTON, D.C., March 30, 2020 — As longstanding organizations representing and supporting those on the front lines who are risking their lives caring for the world’s most vulnerable patients, we stand united in voicing our concern over the ...




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FDA review of e-cigarettes is as critical as ever – any delay related to COVID-19 must be brief

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 1, 2020 – After years of harmful delays by the FDA, a federal judge last July set a May 12, 2020, deadline for e-cigarette manufacturers to apply to the FDA and demonstrate a public health benefit in order to keep their products...




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La revisión de cigarrillos electrónicos por parte de la FDA es más importante que nunca: cualquier retraso relacionado con COVID-19 debe ser breve

WASHINGTON, D.C., 1 de abril del 2020 – Después de años de demoras perjudiciales por parte de la FDA, en julio del año pasado un juez federal estableció como fecha límite el 12 de mayo del 2020 para que los fabricantes de cigarrillos electrónicos...




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28 Patient and consumer groups urge the administration to implement a special enrollment period for Healthcare.gov

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 1, 2020 – 28 patient and consumer groups representing millions of people nationwide with pre-existing health conditions issued the following statement regarding the administration’s decision not to initiate a special enrollment...




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28 grupos de pacientes y consumidores instan a la administración a implementar un período de inscripción especial para Healthcare.gov

WASHINGTON, D.C., 1 de abril del 2020 – 28 grupos de pacientes y consumidores que representan a millones de personas en todo el país con afecciones de salud preexistentes emitieron la siguiente declaración sobre la decision de la administración de no...




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More than 200 patient groups call on Administration to take additional action to alleviate critical shortage of ventilators, PPE, ensure safety of providers, patients

Today, more than patient advocacy, medical and public health organizations sent a letter to senior Trump Administration officials, appealing to the Administration to take immediate action to alleviate the critical shortage across the nation ventilators...




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Public health CEOs: Open health care enrollment to save lives

AHA COVID-19 newsroom DALLAS, April 10, 2020 — Nancy Brown, CEO of the American Heart Association, the world’s leading voluntary organization focused on heart and brain health, joined the chief executives of other leading national public...




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Federal district court strikes down USDA rule that weakens national school nutrition programs

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 14, 2020 — Yesterday, a federal district court struck down a rule by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that rolled back nutrition standards in schools.   Last fall, The American Heart Association, the world’s leading...




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21 health and medical groups speak out against EPA finalizing a rule that could undermine the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule that threatens to undermine the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. The American Lung Association, Allergy & Asthma Network, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, American...




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The new pandemic threat: People may die because they’re not calling 911

DALLAS, April 22, 2020 — Reports from the front lines of hospitals indicate a marked drop in the number of heart attacks and strokes nationally. But, COVID-19 is definitely not stopping people from having heart attacks, strokes and cardiac arrests. We ...




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American Heart Association issues call to action to prevent venous thromboembolism in hospitalized patients

Statement Highlights:  The projected annual cost of preventable hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (VTE) is $7 billion to $10 billion per year. Most estimates place the US annual incidence of diagnosed VTE in adults at 1 to 2 per 1000 per...




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Horizontal or/and Vertical Format in Kayak Photography

Like most paddlers I have a tendency to shoot pictures in a horizontal (landscape) format. It is more tricky to shoot in a vertical format from my tippy kayaks, especially, when I have to use a paddle to stabilize my camera.




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Winter Stand Up Paddling on Horsetooth Reservoir

I love paddling on the Horsetooth Reservoir in cold season. Boat ramps are closed, no power boat traffic, usually quiet and calm. Snow and ice can enhance scenery. A great time to paddle, train, relax or photograph. The Horsetooth stays […]




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How to Add a WordPress Author Box to Your Blog Posts

So you’re interested in adding an author box to your WordPress blog? Well, you’ve come to the right place. An […]

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Best WordPress Live Chat Plugins for Better Customer Support

Customer service as we know it has changed. Today’s customers won’t necessarily call a contact center when they need help. […]

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10 Best Restaurant Menu Plugins for WordPress (Compared)

Want to add a food menu to your restaurant website? Publishing your restaurant menu on your website comes in handy especially if you’re providing an online restaurant reservation or online food delivery. That way your users can figure out the available food options without having to walk into your restaurant. In this article, we’ll show […]

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How to Send SMS Notifications From WordPress (Step by Step)

Want to send SMS messages to your WordPress users? With automated SMS notification, you can keep your customers updated by sending order notification, shipment delivery status, cancellation notification, and more. In this article, we’ll show you how to send SMS messages to your WordPress users with ease. Sending Automated SMS Messages From WordPress SMS messages […]

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How to Create a Full-Screen Welcome Mat Optin Form in WordPress

Want to create a full-screen optin form in WordPress? Love it or hate it… using a welcome mat is one of the easiest ways to capture your users’ attention. Even big brands like Forbes use a welcome mat to promote their campaigns. In this article, we’ll show you how to properly create a welcome mat […]

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How to Create a “Google Forms Style” Form in WordPress

Want to create “Google Forms style” forms for your WordPress website? A lot of publishers choose Google Forms to create a survey because it provides a distraction-free landing page dedicated to the form. If you want to create a distraction-free landing page specifically for your form, but don’t want to use a third-party app, like […]

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How to Properly Create a Wholesale Order Form in WordPress

Want to create a wholesale order form in WordPress? If you’re a wholesaler looking to get online, but don’t want to manage a full-fledged eCommerce store, then you might want to consider adding a simple wholesale order form to your WordPress site. In this article, we’ll show you how to properly create a simple wholesale […]

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12 Best GoDaddy Alternatives for Domain & Web Hosting (2020)

Are you looking for the best GoDaddy alternative for domain registration and web hosting? Without a doubt, Godaddy is one of the most popular names when it comes to registering domain names and hosting your business online. Over the last 22 years, GoDaddy has managed to establish a stronghold in the market. In this article, […]

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How to Create an Amazon Affiliate Store (Step by Step)

Do you want to add an Amazon affiliate store with WordPress? Amazon is the world’s largest online store that helps thousands of merchants to sell products online across the world. They have an official affiliate system that allows affiliate marketers like you to recommend Amazon products to your website’s audience and earn an affiliate commission. […]

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9 Best Staging Plugins for Your WordPress Website (Compared)

Are you looking for a good staging plugin to test your experiments before it goes live? A staging site is a replica of your website where you can experiment with new features, plugins, and updates before you push them to your live website. That way you can find and fix bugs without having to worry […]

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6 Best Divi Plugins That Work on Top of Divi Builder

Are you looking for some good Divi plugins to extend your site features? While you can certainly use any plugins with the Divi theme and Divi Builder plugin, the Divi community has created some plugins specifically for the Divi users. In this article, we’ll show you some of the best Divi plugins that let you […]

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WPForms vs. Google Forms – Which One is Best? (Compared)

Looking to build an online form on your WordPress site? Not sure whether you should use WPForms or Google Forms? Both WPForms and Google Forms are two great options for small and medium scale businesses. But when you dig deeper, you’ll find a few key differences between these 2 form builders. To help you find […]

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'More Than a Recession'

The Damn Virus: Local governments await budget slaughter; supes to investigate county hospital. Local governments across the East Bay are now entering budget season. Alameda County Administrator Susan Muranishi is expected to provide the Board of Supervisors with an update on the Fiscal Year 2020-21 budget this week.…




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COVID, Cannabis, and Quacks

No, Weed Does Not Cure the Virus To a degree perhaps not before seen in modern history, the COVID-19 pandemic is revealing a lot of people and institutions for what they really are, good and bad. Cold, hard reality has a way of doing that.…




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FDA Cracks Down on CBD COVID Claims

Small, little-known companies are selling CBD as a cure-all. While the Trump Administration has deregulated right and left — for instance, allowing polluters to go hog wild — the Food and Drug Administration isn't effing around when it comes to cracking down on companies selling supposed cures for the COVID-19 virus. Several of those targeted companies make CBD.…




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Face Covering Is Now the Law

For the safety of everyone, please do your part. Last Friday, health officers in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties and several of their Bay Area counterparts issued an order generally requiring workers and members of the public to wear face masks when they are out and about in the community. The orders were sweeping, and applied to most of the cases in which any of us leave our homes during this global health emergency.…




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Sick, But Not Diagnosed

The proliferation of presumptive COVID-19 cases highlights the unreliability of data regarding the spread of the disease. Joshua Davis woke up feverish and coughing on the night of March 11. The next morning, the 29-year-old Oakland resident called his healthcare provider at Kaiser Permanente, where a nurse practitioner prescribed him with Tamiflu.…




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Study Says Infection Rate Vastly Higher

Conversely, greater infection rate suggests much lower fatality rate. A recent Stanford University study of COVID-19 infection in Santa Clara County suggests that the disease is vastly more widespread in the Bay Area than official data shows. Because the test was performed on volunteers rather than a randomized population, it is likely to have over-reported the rate of infection among its subjects.…




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Can't Get an Instacart Delivery Appointment?

Fremont high school student Araav Patel has got you covered. Plus, union says whistblower fired, and governor plans for the end of lockdown. Araav Patel lives in a household containing several people at greater risk from COVID-19. The Fremont high school student lives with his parents and grandparents, and suffers personally from a heart condition.…




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S.L. Police shoot Man at Walmart

Lockdown may be all that's keeping city from getting a taste of public anger. The Saturday afternoon shooting by San Leandro Police of Steven Taylor, a 33-year-old African-American man with a history of mental-health issues, is quickly attracting strong criticism from the community, and police accountability activists from across the country.  The blowback from the shooting, which was captured on a cell phone video at the Walmart on Hesperian Boulevard, threatens to hit a city government and police department ill-equipped to handle the barrage of criticism and protest about to come its way. San Leandro Police arrived at the Walmart store in response to reports of a man swinging a baseball bat, the department said.…




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Trump's Drug Tout Threatens Patients, News, Apr. 8 Come Doctors Are Genuinely Interested…




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Like a Petri Dish

Tens of Thousands of California Inmates at Risk of COVID-19 Infection Jose Amendariz was on one of his frequent trips to the nurse’s station in Orange County’s largest jail when deputies hauled in a man in a mask. Of all the inmates inside the jail, the 29-year-old Armendariz needs the most care: insulin shots for Type I diabetes, pills for hypertension, asthma inhaler puffs for his ravaged respiratory system.…




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Over a Million California Students Lack Access to Remote Learning

More than a month since officials closed schools due to Covid-19, California leaders said a two-week blitz led by First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom has brought in 70,000 computers and other devices that will be distributed to needy students this week. Gov. Gavin Newsom has stressed the importance of distance learning and education multiple times during the past month—even talking about helping his own children with school work.…




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Is That 'Medical' Cannabis, or Are You Just Partying?

It might just be a distinction without a difference. Is cannabis really an "essential" business? The food business obviously is. But the legal cannabis industry didn't exist a few years ago, while gathering and making food — contrary to the popular cliché about prostitution — is the world's oldest profession.…




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What if They Held a Pandemic (And A Rent Strike Broke Out Instead?)

Prepare for a May Day like no other. When Bay Area counties imposed stay-at-home orders to limit the COVID-19 epidemic, Richmond resident Blanca Retano lost her job as a parent educator at an elementary school. Her husband, a chef, had his hours cut to nine a week.…




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Tradition still running strong at The Bakers Arms pub (review)

THEY’VE served generations of drinkers over the years and they are still going strong.




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The Eclipse Inn is a small pub big in character (review)

IT may be small in size but for what The Eclipse Inn lacks in square feet it makes up for with an abundance of character and charm.




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Saxon Inn a big draw for families living on the Calmore estate

IT USED to be known as the largest village in England.