(Forbes) – The official measles count is up to 121 cases in 17 states, the CDC reported on Monday, and 85 percent of those resulted from the outbreak stemming from...
Association Celebrates ‘Go Red’ Day With Annual Campaign by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer A website saved her life. And...
Association Celebrates ‘Go Red’ Day With Annual Campaign by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer A website saved her life. And...
(BBC) – Scientists are hopeful that “smart” insulins which are undergoing trials could revolutionise the way diabetes is managed. Instead of repeated blood tests and injections...
(BBC) – Scientists are hopeful that “smart” insulins which are undergoing trials could revolutionise the way diabetes is managed. Instead of repeated blood tests and injections...
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim Special to the NNPA from the San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Back in the days when a Black child ran afoul of his...
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim Special to the NNPA from the San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Back in the days when a Black child ran afoul of his...
By Michael A. Lenoir, M.D. A large hospital in the Bay Area announced last week that it would no longer support essential services for adult patients...
Neal Bennett, WTLV- and WJXX-TV via USA TODAY JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (USA Today)—A major breakthrough could be coming for patients who suffer from a particularly aggressive type...
Paying attention to your health is a key part of living a better life. To do that, you must become conscious of your health choices and...
By Quiana Lewis (Quiana Lewis joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2014 as a program associate, working to build a Culture of Health by...
(The Times-Gazette) – Researchers have developed a new smartphone accessory that can be used to diagnose HIV and syphilis within 15 minutes; and it works...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Thousands of travelers to the Caribbean and nearby regions are coming home with an unwanted souvenir: a mosquito-borne virus that...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The gap appears to be closing between death rates for black and white Americans infected with the...
By David Siders, Sacramento Bee Last year, after the Food and Drug Administration approved a breakthrough new drug for hepatitis C, health officials around the country...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking another look at President Barack Obama’s health care law, and this time it’s not...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer For the first time, lung cancer has passed breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths for women in...
Black History Month is a time when we can reflect on the lives of the loved ones we have lost to AIDS. In Black America, HIV...
National Nurses United have announced a donation of $40,000 to the disaster relief organization International Medical Corps, which is on the front lines of the Ebola...
(The Independent) – Years of running too long and too far could be as bad for you as doing nothing at all, a study has...
(USA Today) – The transition to retirement isn’t always easy, especially the emotional adjustments, a new survey of retired Baby Boomers shows. About two-thirds (69%)...
(CBS News) – It may seem like Americans have been inundated with calls to get more sleep, but these efforts are not without reason. The...
(CBS News) – It may seem like Americans have been inundated with calls to get more sleep, but these efforts are not without reason. The...
MARY ESCH, Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Bottles of Walmart-brand echinacea, an herb said to ward off colds, were found to contain no echinacea at...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama gathered with beneficiaries of his health care law Tuesday to argue that the persistent effort to wipe it out...