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Largest US Insurer’s Move Signals Industry Shift
This Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, file photo, shows a portion of The UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s campus in Minnetonka, Minn. UnitedHealth Group reports quarterly earnings on Thursday, July 17, 2014. (AP...
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AIDS Conference Attendees on Downed Malaysian Jet
In this June 2009 photo provided by AMC Amsterdam on Friday, July 18, 2014, former president of the International AIDS Society Joep Lange is seen. A large number of world-renowned AIDS researchers and...
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HIV Diagnosis Rate Fell by a Third in US Over Decade
Copyright 2014, The Associated Press Mike Stobbe, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — The rate of HIV infections diagnosed in the United States each year fell by one-third over the past decade, a...
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Genetic Mapping Triggers New Hope on Schizophrenia
This 2013 file photo provided by Cardiff University shows Dr. Michael O’Donovan, deputy director of the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University School of Medicine in...
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Temple Researchers Snip Out Dormant HIV from Cells
Kamel Khalili, a neurovirologist at Temple, who led the team. It used a gene editing method that acts like scissors on HIV in cells. (Courtesy of The Philadelphia Tribune) (The Philadelphia Inquirer)...
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Could Consuming Probiotics Help Lower Blood Pressure?
Consumption of probiotic-rich foods – such as yogurt – and dietary supplements of the “good” bacteria may help lower blood pressure, according to researchers. (Medical News Today) – We have all heard...
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Addressing Abuse of Older Americans
Special to the NNPA from The Dallas Examiner Leaders in the fight against elder abuse announced on July 10 a framework for tackling the highest priority challenges to elder abuse prevention and...
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Antibiotic Resistance Could Be ‘Next Pandemic,’ CDC Says
In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The agency released its first progress report Thursday, and...
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Powdered Caffeine Raises Concerns After Teen Overdoses
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning against powdered pure caffeine, and urges parents and consumers alike to avoid the product.The FDA is concerned about the...
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First Lady Tells America to ‘Drink Up’ More Water
First lady Michelle Obama, a longtime supporter of healthier eating and physical fitness, is surrounded by children as she expands her push for America to drink more water, at a “Drink Up” event at the...
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FDA Approves Zydelig To Treat Three Types Of Blood Cancer
(HNGN) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Zydelig, a drug to treat patients with three types of blood cancers. Zydelig can be used to treat patients whose chronic lymphocytic...
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Teen Use of HGH on the Rise
An injector pen that contains approximately a weeks worth of HGH. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) (The Washington Post) – Teen usage of synthetic human growth hormone increased by 120 percent from 2012...
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Childhood Traumas More Common in Military Members
Soldiers of the U.S. Army 23rd Chemical Battalion. (Lee Jin-man/AP) The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Childhood traumas are more common among military members and veterans than among civilians,...
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Ruling on FDA’s Oversight of Animal Antibiotic Use Called a ‘Big Blow to...
(Food Safety News) – In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is not required to hold hearings concerning the...
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CDC is Planning to Reopen Labs Shut Down After Anthrax Mishap
(Dumb-Out.net) – The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to reopen labs that are involved directly in fighting epidemics according to CDC spokesman Thomas Skinner. It was announced...
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Plan to Simplify 2015 Health Renewals May Backfire
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — If you have health insurance on your job, you probably don’t give much thought to each year’s renewal. But make the same assumption in one...
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Toward a Cure for HIV: The Promise of the ‘Mississippi Baby’
By Linda Villarosa Special to the NNPA from The Black AIDS Institute MELBOURNE, Australia – Is the glass half empty – or half full? That was the framework for thinking about the so-called Mississippi...
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Fist Bumps Less Germy Than Handshakes, Study Says
In this undated photo provided by Prifysgol Aberystwyth University researchers David Whitworth, left, and Sara Mela, pose for photo in the lab at Prifysgol Aberystwyth University in Aberystwyth, Wales....
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Disabled Americans Seek More Consumer Protection
In this Nov. 8, 2007 file photo, wounded soldiers involved in physical therapy wait for President Bush to visit a physical therapy lab for wounded soldiers at the Center For The Intrepid at the Brooke...
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The Story of Tinoris Williams: Did He Have to Die?
In the 10th installment of the Florida Courier’s series on Blacks and mental health, we learn that community institutions are building partnerships with law enforcement to prevent needless killings of...
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