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Helping Children Through the Emotional Trauma of Ferguson
Joshua Calhoun (Wiley Price/St. Louis American) by Sandra Jordan Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American Whether you saw it first-hand on the streets, on smartphones or on your television at...
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If You’re an African American With HIV, You May Need a Higher Selzentry Dose
Phill Wilson (NNPA Photo by Freddie Allen) (The Body) – A new study suggests that many African Americans may not be getting effective doses of the HIV drug Selzentry (also known as Celsentri or...
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Cooked to Death
In the latest installment of the Florida Courier’s series on Blacks and mental health, we review the Miami Herald’s spotlight on the state’s inability to handle mentally ill prison inmates. Dade...
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Study: Racial Discrimination Fuels Obesity in Minority Communities
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Exposure to racial discrimination may explain why members of some minority groups disproportionately suffer from obesity and being...
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Taking Sleeping Pills for Over Three Months Increases Risk of Alzheimer’s
LONDON (The Times of India) – Taking sleeping pills for over three months increases a person’s risk of getting Alzheimer’s by over 51%. Taking benzodiazepines (widely prescribed drugs to treat...
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Body Donation Programs in 3 States Scrutinized
Authorities in Michigan suspended the medical license of Arthur Rathburn (Courtesy/WXYZ) SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Authorities are investigating programs in at least three states that collect bodies donated...
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With Surge in Liberia, Ebola Case Toll Above 4,200
A person wearing a haz-mat suit steps out of an ambulance as an ebola patient arrives for treatment, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, in Atlanta. The fourth American aid worker sickened with the Ebola virus...
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Missouri Enacts 72-Hour Abortion Waiting Period
Abortion-rights supporters Dina van der Zalm, right, and Allyson Junker stand on the steps of the Missouri Capitol Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, in Jefferson City, Mo. Missouri lawmakers are expected to...
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Do Workplace Wellness Programs Work? Usually Not
(New York Times) - Most news coverage of the new Kaiser Family Foundation annual survey on employer-sponsored health plans has focused on the fact that growth in premiums in 2013 was as low as it has...
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From Ebola Front Line: Teaching How to Stay Safe
This image from video shows Dr. Dan Lucey of the Georgetown University Medical Center, during an interview with The Associated Press in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, where he discussed the three...
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Cuba to Send Doctors to Ebola Areas
This Aug. 12, 2014 file photo shows a healthcare worker walking near a Ebola isolation unit wearing protective gear against the virus at Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone. (AP Photo/...
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FDA Panel Backs Novo Nordisk Injection for Obesity
(Photo courtesy of Atlanta Black Star) WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health experts say a diabetes drug from Novo Nordisk should be approved for a new use in treating obesity. The panel of Food and Drug...
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US to Assign 3,000 from US Military to Fight Ebola
In this Sept. 3, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn, Estonia. The Obama administration is ramping up its response to West Africa’s Ebola crisis, preparing...
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UN: Nearly $1 Billion Needed Now to Stop Ebola
President Barack Obama speaks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Obama traveled to the CDC, to address the Ebola crisis and announced that he...
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Understanding Suicide in Black Communities
(Courtesy of BET.com) Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer (The Washington Informer)—Suicide claims about 40,000 lives every year in the United States, an alarming statistic that...
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CDC Study: Americans’ Bellies are Expanding Fast
Lindsey Tanner, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — The number of American men and women with big-bellied, apple-shaped figures — the most dangerous kind of obesity — has climbed at a startling rate...
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Obama’s Ebola Response: Is it Enough, and in Time?
President Barack Obama speaks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Obama traveled to the CDC, to address the Ebola crisis and announced that he...
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Study: Artificial Sweeteners May Promote Diabetes
Artificial sweeteners are displayed, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, in New York. Artificial sweeteners may set the stage for diabetes in some people by hampering the way their bodies handle sugar,...
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The Tiny Ebola Clinic That Offers a Ray of Hope for Rural Liberia
Health workers load the body of an amputee suspected of dying from the Ebola virus during the rain on the back of a truck, in a busy street in Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Abbas...
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Judge Approves $190 Million Hopkins Settlement
Johns Hopkins Hospital agreed to a historic settlement July 21, 2014. The hospital will pay more than 8,000 former patients $190 million for a gynecologist scandal uncovered in 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick...
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