To stop, prevent more cases and end the Deadly Outbreak of Ebola

My 4-month old granddaughter, Harvey Nicole King, laid down to take a nap and never woke up. She was a seemingly perfectly healthy baby. This is a devastating loss. Every hour of every day another baby dies. We must do something to save these precious lives. We want to ensure hospitals provide more information about SIDS to parents of preemies who are often of low-weight at birth. We want to encourage everyone to read about up-to-date crib death prevention measures and follow the safety precautions!

To prevent the continued destruction of the Emergency Medical System of Brooklyn, NY. I am a Disaster Relief Expert, an Epidemiologist and a former Emergency Medicine Physician.

Since the DEA got involved in healthcare, I was "fired" from my PCP because they no longer wanted to treat me, pain or no pain. A group of doctors in my town of Grand Junction, CO., had been arrested for abusing the prescribing protocols, and they were a cash-only enterprise. Since that happened, no doctor in town will touch a chronic pain patient with a 10-foot pole. I have not been able to re-establish another PCP for going on 2 years now... to say nothing of getting proper treatment for my health issues. I have been told to "apply" online for new doctors, but I get denied because I have been treated for pain in the past--it doesn't even have to be going on presently. Just recently, I had to go to the hospital twice for a severe kidney infection because my complaint and symptoms were rushed by the emergency staff the first time around and sent home. The chronic pain I have stems from a violent attack I sustained in 2008, where I was hurled down 2nd floor-high metal steps, and then raped and left for dead. I did not ask for this pain that has changed my life forever, nor am I a junkie. I just need a physician that gives a damn and will treat me with dignity and without prejudice. Please sign the petition asking congress to amend the DEA control over who doctors can admit as patients so that ALL can be treated fairly.

I want Saint Louis Park to be the healthiest and safest place to live and raise kids. A healthy and safe community thrives and achieves great things. As a citizen, parent and/or employee living and/or working in Saint Louis Park, I want our entire community and environment, including and especially schools, parks and recreation, and childcare, to support better eating and active living. To accomplish this, I request our community: 1. Educate the community about better eating and health. 2. Align school, recreation and childcare environment and policies to support better eating, promote physical activity, and minimize sugar-sweetened beverages and recreational screen time. 3. Place a city-wide focus on gardens, how food grows and where food comes from. 4. Develop a city-wide food council to create policy to provide guidelines and look at best practices for food and beverages served in public settings across our city to all citizens and city- based gardens and gleaning. 5. Work with STEP to maximize the health of food donated and distributed. 6. See health through nutrition as an investment. In places where food or beverages are served to kids: a. Involve our kids, parents and citizens in the choice selection and menu development process. b. In addition to adherence to USDA school food and Smart Snacks standards, work to: •Serve: o more fresh food served as part of meals, snacks, vending, and catering. o foods with no high-fructose corn syrup, added trans-fat or artificial coloring o hormone and antibiotic-free meat and dairy • Minimize food and drinks with added sugars, pesticides, antibiotics and growth hormones • Avoid using food as reward • Avoid food-based fundraising that does not meet school food standards

I have personally been trapped in bed for months, thanks to problems with DME companies. I do not want anyone else to go through what I have.

Medicaid only cover 14 visits per calender year. With people like me that has very low income, can't work or go to school any more because my many disease that came into my life almost 3 years ago. I never expected to have lupus, fibromyalgia, sjogren's syndrome and endometriosis. With all them diseases I have to see more than one doctor and have to receive treatment every month. Now I can't see a my doctors that knows how to treat my conditions. I am sick, in pain and I have no where else to turn since SSI disability has denied my multiple times and I am still waiting 2 1/2 years later. I can't get all my medication due to only five prescriptions a month. I can't continue to live like this. And I know that I am not the only citizen that's sick and can't afford health insurance and has to see more than one doctor to get the right medical treatment. We need change, who else will my kids count on to take care of them if I can't because I can't get the right medical treatments I need.

Tell the FDA to uplift it's ban on gay and bisexual men from donating blood. The American Blood Centers, American Red Cross, American Medical Association, several Members of Congress and dozens of organizations have called on the Food and Drug Administration to change its policy and allow members of the gay community to donate blood to people in need. A recent study that was on Yahoo! News also found that the gay ban costs hospitals 219,000 pints of blood each year. Furthermore, The United Kingdom and several other countries lifted their ban on members of the gay community from donating blood years ago and it is time for our country to do the same and continue to show leadership. The FDA already screens donated blood to ensure sure it is as safe for the receiving party and gay men should be able to donate their blood and save a life -- just like anyone else.

Medical marijuana will boost the states revenue , save them money by not jailing so many people charged with possession. This way they can focus on arresting people using actual "drugs". Medical marijuana will benefit many people with many different health and personal problems.

This affects everyone on Medicaid and Medicare, usually only about 1/4 of his fee. Many Doctors have stopped accepting these patients, making it difficult to get proper care and enough time with the Doctors. Finding a Primary care Doctor is difficult as well as a specialist who will take patients. Finding the right Doctor is even harder, you have to take what you can find, this is unfair to the Doctors and Patients both. Pay Doctors at least half their fee. This needs to be a priority as more people are added to Medicaid and Medicare each year.

Hundreds of thousands of people across Pennsylvania have a condition which could be helped by treatment using some form of medical cannabis. Cannabis is one of the oldest medicines in the world, and is the safest therapeutically active substance known to mankind. It has been scientifically studied in great detail. Cancer, HIV/AIDS, epilepsy and seizures, nausea, Alzheimers, ALS, Cronh's Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, chronic pain, arthritis, glaucoma, dementia, depression, PTSD, and many other conditions are all at least partially treatable with cannabis. Healthcare practitioners need to have this medicine available as a treatment option for their patients. For many patients, including many young children with forms of intractable epilepsy such as Dravet Syndrome, they face the possibility of death in the time it takes the legislature to act. For the rest, cannabis is the best medicinal hope remaining for re-gaining - at least partially - a normal life. Many times, cannabis can be a better treatment option than conventional pharmaceuticals. There is nothing worse than watching someone you care about suffer, except when you have the ability to do something to help. You have the ability to help, simply by making medical cannabis a priority for the remaining days in the 2013-2014 House session. We hereby request that House leadership immediately put HB2182 (Rep. Cox) - or SB1182 (Sens. Folmer & Leach), if it has already passed the Senate by now - onto the House legislative agenda for consideration.

Victimized by the unconscionable tactics of workers comp laws and know of thousands more.