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WHO: Ebola Outbreak is a Public Health Emergency
Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, China’s Margaret Chan and Assistant Director General for Health Security Keiji Fukuda of the US, right, share a word during a press conference...
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FDA Warns That Tattoo Inks Can Cause Infections
This Jan. 6, 2006, file photo shows a tattoo artist from Los Angels during the Body Art Expo at the Los Angeles county fairgrounds in Pomona, Calif. Thinking about getting inked? Check the bottle...
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FDA Lifts Hold on Experimental Ebola Drug
People walk past a billboard encouraging people suffering from symptoms linked to Ebola to present themselves at a health facility for treatment in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. While...
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Aspirin Can Prevent Cancer Deaths, Irish Study Finds
In this photo taken July 6, 2009 worker Roland Ulbrich presents an Aspirin pill made for Italy at the pharmaceutical plant of the Bayer Bitterfeld company in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, eastern Germany. (AP...
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Birth Rate for Unmarried Women Declining for First Time in Decades
(Pew Research) – For the first time in decades, the non-marital birth rate in the U.S. has been declining, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics. The rate peaked in...
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Deadline to Clear Up Health Law Eligibility Near
This Nov. 29, 2013, file photo shows a part of the HealthCare.gov website, photographed in Washington. The administration is warning hundreds of thousands of consumers they risk losing...
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Study Questions Need for Most People to Cut Salt
Salt shakers at a restaurant in Alexandria, Va. A large international study challenges the advice for most people to cut back on salt. Unless they have high blood pressure, the amount most folks...
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Burger King Drops Healthy Fries From Menu
A man eating at Burger King (Seth Perlman/AP) (Chinatopix) – Fast food chain operator Burger King is shelving its healthier French fry option Satisfries, after it flopped among American consumer...
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WHO: Ebola Toll May ‘Vastly Underestimate’ Crisis
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, nurses dealing with patients await the arrival of Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, as she tours areas to call on health workers not to leave there...
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Coca-Cola Bets on Energy Drinks with Monster Stake
This undated file photo provided by Monster Beverage Company shows a can of Monster M 80 energy drink. Coca-Cola is buying a 16.7 percent stake in Monster Beverage for $2.15 billion, with the worlds...
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Shoppers Ditching Colgate Total Amid Triclosan Fears
In this Jan. 26, 2011 photo, Colgate toothpaste and toothbrush are posed in Phoenix. (The Canadian Press/AP, Ross D. Franklin) (Business Week) – Earlier this week, Angela Pollock ditched Colgate Total...
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Poor Sleep Tied to Higher Suicide Risk in Older Adults
(Psych Central) – Older adults who suffer from sleep difficulties are at greater risk of dying from suicide than well-rested adults, according to new research at the Stanford University School of...
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The ‘Tampon’ That Could Prevent HIV
Researchers have developed a new tech tampon that would prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted disease among women. The new tech contains fibers that allow drugs to be absorbed quickly, thanks to...
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Hundreds of Bioterror Lab Mishaps Cloaked in Secrecy
(AP Photo/Sang Tan, File) Alison Young, USA Today ATLANTA (USA TODAY)–More than 1,100 laboratory incidents involving bacteria, viruses and toxins that pose significant or bioterror risks to people...
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EPA to Require Air Pollution Measurements in Black Communities
Flaring at Shell Deer Park Refinery, Deer Park TX, located on the Houston Ship Channel. (Roy Luck/Flickr/Creative Commons) By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – For the...
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Mental Illness and Violence is No Laughing Matter
by Pastor E.A. Deckard Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times “For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet… and hoped that they would go away.” ― Richard J....
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Peanut, Almond Butter Recalled for Salmonella Risk
An Aug. 10, 2005 file photo shows the peanut butter production line at Sunland Inc’s peanut plant in Portales, N.M. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal, Richard Pipes) NEW YORK (AP) — A unit of Hain...
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Why More, Not Fewer, People Might Start Getting Health Insurance Through Work
In this Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, photo, costumers shop at the new Walmart Neighborhood Market in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) (New York Times) – In an earnings call last week, Walmart announced...
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Blood Transfusions Could Reduce Strokes in Kids With Sickle-Cell Anemia
(Time) – A new trial involving nearly 200 children with sickle-cell anemia found that monthly blood transfusions could reduce the chance of strokes by more than half in children who have the...
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378 People ‘Pay it Forward’ at Fla. Starbucks
This Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, photo, shows Starbucks mugs in a cafe in North Andover, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A woman started an act of kindness chain that lasted...
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