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Cancer Rates In Early Britons Show We’ve Been Battling The Disease For Centuries

Cancer Rates In Early Britons Show We’ve Been Battling The Disease For Centuries

There is nothing as idealized and as wishful as nostalgia. Things were always better back in the day. But is there any actual evidence that…
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Cody Sovis
Breast Cancer Inequality

Breast Cancer Inequality

Pick your societal problem and, odds are, the same issue is reflected in how we pay, access, and benefit from medical care. Take racism…
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Cody Sovis
Waiting For Cancer: Americans Are Waiting For Medicare To Seek Help

Waiting For Cancer: Americans Are Waiting For Medicare To Seek Help

Cancer doesn’t know if you have insurance. Today, roughly 31 million Americans lack access to healthcare because they are uninsured…
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Cody Sovis
Bottled Water Controversy in NH

Bottled Water Controversy in NH

Residents of Southern New Hampshire are concerned about the quality of their drinking water. Recently, during an HB737 statutory…
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Mindi Messmer, PG, CG
Medical Cannabis Makes Gains in North Carolina, Stalls in the White House

Medical Cannabis Makes Gains in North Carolina, Stalls in the White House

After twelve years of legislative efforts, the prospects for North Carolina to become the newest state to legalize the use of medical…
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Justin Messmer
Health Is Health, Fit Is Fit

Health Is Health, Fit Is Fit

I’ve got a few pals that are incredible athletes. While many of my friends do one sport exclusively, there is a handful that somehow…
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Cody Sovis
EPA has spoken — states must take precautionary steps for another PFAs chemical.

EPA has spoken — states must take precautionary steps for another PFAs chemical.

EPA has issued a toxicity assessment for #PFBS, one of the more than 9,200 #PFAS chemicals known to exist. NH regulates 4 of them in…
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Mindi Messmer, PG, CG
The 1% We Can Change.

The 1% We Can Change.

We really didn’t think we’d be doing #solokolo again this spring, a full year after the pandemic began. We didn’t think we’d see Mud…
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Cody Sovis
The Alcohol-Cancer Link Americans Don’t Understand

The Alcohol-Cancer Link Americans Don’t Understand

It’s easy to dismiss yet another article linking some element of daily life with cancer. Some of these contributing factors are more…
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Cody Sovis
Cancer Screenings Are Still Lagging Due To The Pandemic

Cancer Screenings Are Still Lagging Due To The Pandemic

At this point, we can’t say that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased cancer rates. It hasn’t. And unless behaviors like smoking, obesity…
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Cody Sovis
Christmas, A Birthday Present in May

Christmas, A Birthday Present in May

Our artificial Christmas tree is still standing in our living room. We couldn’t bring ourselves to close the door on Christmas this year…
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Mindi Messmer, PG, CG
Transparency, Communication, Trust: A PFAS Blunder In My Backyard

Transparency, Communication, Trust: A PFAS Blunder In My Backyard

In northern Michigan, there’s a prevailing theme of N.I.M.B.Y. That sentiment of “not in my backyard” usually has to do with short-term…
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Cody Sovis
Moving from the Impossible to the Inevitable

Moving from the Impossible to the Inevitable

Last weekend, Linda Birnbaum, Linda S. Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S. is the former Director of the National Institute of Environmental…
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Mindi Messmer, PG, CG
What Comes Next In Heath Care

What Comes Next In Heath Care

If the past year has taught us anything, it’s just how vital healthcare is the fabric of our society. It’s elemental; nothing functions…
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Cody Sovis
Breaking Down the Walls

Breaking Down the Walls

We have heard a lot about ways we are divided. By politics, race, ethnicity, gender, religion…but what about the commonality we share?
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Mindi Messmer, PG, CG
This year, we’re continuing our mission of cancer prevention by bike.

This year, we’re continuing our mission of cancer prevention by bike.

As the nation continues in its healthcare crisis, we’re taking these new challenges as an opportunity to build new Less Cancer Bike Ride…
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Cody Sovis
Less Cancer Ride 2021

Less Cancer Ride 2021

We all need something to look forward to. For the Less Cancer crew, one of the next big things on the calendar is one of our biggest…
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Cody Sovis
Almost 4 in 10 Cancer Deaths Attributable To Smoking

Almost 4 in 10 Cancer Deaths Attributable To Smoking

As daunting as the challenge of cancer prevention is, we have made progress. Over the past decade, educational and advocacy efforts have…
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Cody Sovis
How COVID-19 Has Affected Minorities And Why The Vaccination Roll-Out Is A Symptom Of The Same…

How COVID-19 Has Affected Minorities And Why The Vaccination Roll-Out Is A Symptom Of The Same…

COVID-19 has highlighted and amplified any number of shortcomings in our society, perhaps most glaring of which has to do with our…
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Cody Sovis
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