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Viagra ‘Could Help Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy’
(BBC) – Viagra and Cialis, normally used for treating male impotence, could be used to fight a muscle-wasting disorder which affects boys, say US scientists. In tests the drugs helped improve blood...
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Fruits and Vegetables Linked to Stroke Prevention
(Reuters Health) – Eating more fruits and vegetables may reduce stroke risk by almost a third, according to a fresh look at recent evidence. The results support existing recommendations from...
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CDC: Population of Older Women Becoming First-Time Moms on the Rise in the US
(Tech Times) – With women rising in power in this new world, it so happens that they are having children at a much older age than usual. For a time, women used to have children in their twenties,...
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Scientists Discover Longevity Gene That Makes People Smarter
(The Health Site) – A recent study found that people who had a certain variant of the longevity gene KLOTHO were likelier to have enhanced cognitive abilities, Counsel and Heal reported. The people...
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Ask Alma
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Dear Alma, My stepson, who I adore and have known most of his life, is getting married next summer. I love him and love the girl he is getting married to. Here is my...
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USDA to Accommodate Religious Diets
Volunteers restock the Halal Food Pantry at Masjid Al-Muminun in Memphis. Photo courtesy of the Halal Food Pantry at Masjid Al-Muminun. By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA)...
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Insufficient Vitamin D Linked to Prostate Cancer in Blacks
A new study suggests that Black men with low vitamin D levels have a higher risk of prostate cancer. By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The relationship between melanin...
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Several Medications Can Help People Quit Drinking: Study
(CBS News) – A new review finds that several drugs can help curb the desire to drink alcohol, but the researchers note that these medications are rarely prescribed. Acamprosate (Campral) and...
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Exposure to Certain Chemicals Increases Breast Cancer Risk
(Austrian Tribune) – A new study has revealed that breast cancer risk significantly increases due to exposure to everyday chemicals. The study found that vehicles, lawn equipment, smoking and...
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Report Highlights Child Labor on US Tobacco Farms
Farm workers make their way across a field shrouded in fog as they hoe weeds from a burley tobacco crop near Warsaw, Ky., early in this Thursday, July 10, 2008 file photo. You may have to be at least...
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New Lung Cancer Guidelines Can Save More Lives
(Health24.com) – New screening guidelines for lung cancer could save tens of thousands of lives, but the CT scans involved will be costly, a new study has found. Projections show that implementing...
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Is Farm Work Too Dangerous for Children?
(CBS News) – Just how dangerous is farm work for children? A new report by Human Rights Watch is drawing attention to the fact that children as young as seven years old are working under hazardous...
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Hospitals Reach Out to Attract Affluent Immigrants
Heart patient Nhan Luong eats a heart healthy lunch of chicken fried rice, vegetables, fruit and dessert Thursday, May 1, 2014, at Houston’s Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. Menu changes are one...
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Cost-Control Plan for Health Care Could Cost You
This April 11, 2014 file photo shows President Barack Obama, flanked by outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, left, and his nominee to replace her, current Budget Director...
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Blacks are Drowning in Swim Help
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the two weeks leading up the to unofficial start of summer, reports of accidental drowning deaths had already begun, including at...
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Jamaica University Sacks AIDS Doctor
This April 12, 2011 electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows an H9 T cell, blue, infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),...
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Stressful Relationships May Raise Death Risk
(Health Central) – People who have stressful relationships with friends, family and at work may have an increased risk of premature death, according to a study from the University of Copenhagen....
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Study Suggests Link Between Cynicism and Dementia
Lonely seniors may be more likely to develop dementia, new research shows. (Alberto Pellaschiar/AP Photo) (BBC) – People who have a cynical distrust of others, and think their motives are selfish,...
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Abortion Doctors Restrictions Take Root in South
In this July 2, 2012 photo, abortion opponent Ashley Sigrest of Brandon, Miss., talks about her reasons she protests Jackson Women’s Health Organization’s clinic in Jackson, Miss. Sigrest said she...
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30 Percent of World is Now Fat, No Country Immune
In this file photo dated Tuesday, June 26, 2012, two overweight women hold a conversation in New York, USA. Almost a third of the world population is now fat, and no country has been able to curb...
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