Update: Komen Foundation drops their plan to cut Planner Parenthood. Details here.

The nation’s leading breast-cancer advocacy organization Thursday confronted a widening backlash to its decision to largely end its decades-long partnership with Planned Parenthood, with rising dissension in its own ranks and roiling anger on the Internet.
The Denver and Aspen affiliates of the organization, the [...]

In the year since Englewood’s Clayton Elementary implemented an in-class breakfast program, the number of students who eat at school jumped so high that it earned a state award. But the real benefit, administrators say, is in the effect it has had in the classroom.
“Teachers are reporting increased participation and attention from students and a [...]

Women often are eager to shed extra weight after pregnancy, but the first workouts should be gentle and follow medical advice, doctors say. “It’s important that the focus of the first two weeks be taking care of the new baby and getting sufficient rest,” says Dr. Jeffrey Henke, an obstetrician/gynecologist in Newport News, Va. Some [...]

The very same week we learned about the push to ban trans fats from Colorado school food, both at lunch and in before- and after-school snacks, another study asserted that junk food in school vending machines has no impact on students’ weight or obesity levels.
It’s confusing. Kind like all the conflicting studies about coffee [...]

So….where was I? Oh right, we were wrapping up all our screenings and evaluations (still not sure what the difference is between those, but whatever).
At this point, I’d gone part time at my job. To be honest, it sucked. I loved my job. I loved my team, the challenges, the intellectual curiosity, the energy…everything. The [...]

If you’re like lots of moms, you might put a humidifier in your child’s bedroom with good intentions, like to help him or her breathe easier. However, when used incorrectly, humidifiers may pose a risk to your child’s health.
What are the pros and cons of humidifiers?
Humidifiers can help add moisture to dry living spaces, which [...]

The memory from eight years ago is almost as vivid as if it had occurred only seconds ago.
My wife was in the recovery room at Penrose Community Hospital in Colorado Springs, having delivered our first child, a daughter who came early and under emergency conditions.
Behind drawn curtains in the crowded recovery room, we watched a [...]

Fruitcake and Antidepressants. They were two of the top “trending now” items on my Yahoo mail page this morning – along with Matthew McConaughey and Mitt Romney. I’m not really sure why this caught my eye but it did.
 
It’s one of the most sought out Christmas gifts in our culture…TecHNoLoGY…and yet with the many gadgets [...]

A group of teenagers is hanging out when the talk turns to sex. Questions are raised, but the answers within the assemblage range from somewhat plausible to downright laughable.
Where do they go for the truth?
Like everything else “teen” these days, it could be their cellphones. At least that’s the hope of Planned Parenthood, which on [...]

Guest blogger from Aurora Laura Neiman, a.k.a. LaLaGirl, was recently featured in a national nonprofit’s year-end fundraising video. This is her heartwarming story about the experience for her family and overcoming her anxiety of the unknown.
Early in October, my friend Dawn Crawford pitched me the idea of heading up to the mountains with my kids [...]