Dear HPV,

My uterus has been filling with blood for four days. Or maybe it was in just the last twelve hours that the dissolving stitches from the simple outpatient surgery lost their grip. …more

On Thursday, November 17^th, thousands of students gathered in Union Square Park as part of a mass strike in solidarity of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. …more

Google tells me there are many Jonathan Dees. One is an “authority” on practical astrology, color therapy and Feng Shui for the garden. …more

In honor of April being National Donate Life Month, here are some facts about organ donation: …more

The photograph circulating of a young stunning Sigrid Nunez with long dark hair and a shining smile, sitting next to Susan Sontag, gives you the physical reminder of what caught David Reiff (Sontag’s son)’s attention. …more

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; as a person partaking in the national Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan that was implemented as part of the package, I see today as a day to celebrate.

So let’s take a closer look at the PPACA, shall we?

Here’s the .gov link to the actual law’s major provisions in chronological order. On that same site is the PDF of the full law, the law by section, and all kinds of other info’s you might like to put your eyeballs on: …more