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Medical Aid Group to Host 3 Ebola Clinical Trials
In this Oct. 27, 2014 file photo, health workers unload the lifeless body of a man suspected of contracting the Ebola virus, as they carry him to a grave site on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia....
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Family of Ebola Victim Look for Closure in Deals
In this Oct. 6, 2014, file photo, a hazardous material cleaner removes a wrapped item from the Louise Troh’s apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States,...
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CDC: E-Cigarette Use Rising in High School Kids
Daryl Cura demonstrates an e-cigarette at Vape store in Chicago, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. The federal government wants to ban sales of electronic cigarettes to minors and require approval for new...
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Surgeon with Ebola Coming to US for Care
In this April 2014 photo provided by the United Methodist News Service, Dr. Martin Salia poses for a photo at the United Methodist Church’s Kissy Hospital outside Freetown, Sierra Leone. Salia has...
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Gallup: Good Reviews for Obamacare Coverage
(Politico) – A majority of Americans give good reviews for insurance they recently acquired through government exchanges within the past year, a new poll shows. With the second round of Obamacare...
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Hopes and Fears as Healthcare Sign-up Season Opens
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The second sign-up season under President Barack Obama’s health overhaul opened Saturday, with hopes that this time consumers will have a...
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AIDS Group Wages Lonely Fight Against Pill to Prevent H.I.V.
Michael Weinstein, center, at the Keep the Promise AIDS March in Washington DC on July 22, 2012. (Elvert Barnes Protest Photography/CCPL) Josh Barro, THE NEW YORK TIMES LOS ANGELES (The New York...
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Studies Link Obesity and Cancer
A healthy diet and exercise can help prevent obesity, a regimen that’s being followed by Northeast resident Sharon Carter, who knows that, according to a new study, obesity increases the risk of...
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10 Ways to Wake Up Without a Cup of Coffee
by Kate Bratskeir Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times Coffee is good. Coffee is great. More than half of adults in the U.S. think so, drinking a cup of the stuff every day. The habit...
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Federal Gov’t Falls Short on More Health Websites
This March 25, 2014, photo shows part of the website for HealthCare.gov as photographed in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick) HOPE YEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With many seniors facing high...
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Man Who Died from Ebola Endured Treatment Delays
In this April 2014 photo provided by the United Methodist News Service, Dr. Martin Salia poses for a photo at the United Methodist Church’s Kissy Hospital outside Freetown, Sierra Leone. Salia has...
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Study Will Test Survivors’ Blood to Treat Ebola
This Nov. 7, 2014, photo shows the inside a mobile donation unit at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Raleigh, N.C. The unit was headed to Africa for use in a study of blood plasma treatment...
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Today Is UN World Toilet Day — and It’s No Laughing Matter
(Vice News) – An estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to proper sanitation around the world, and more than a billion defecate openly. Some 4 billion cases of diarrhea each year lead to more than 2...
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How Trans Fat Eats Away at Your Memory
This photo provided by Dunkin’ Donuts on Monday, May 5, 2014 shows a selection of the doughnuts they sell. (AP Photo/Dunkin Donuts) (Time) – What’s the opposite of brain food? Trans fat, finds a new...
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Egypt Making Slow Progress on Genital Mutilation
In this Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014 photo, Reda el-Danbouki, Egyptian lawyer for 13-year-old Sohair el-Batea who died undergoing the procedure of female genital mutilation committed by Dr. Raslan Fadl,...
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Nurse Gets New Ring, New Chance at Life, After Ebola
This Oct. 21, 2014, file photo, provided by Amber Vinson, shows Vinson at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Vinson, a Dallas nurse who was being treated for Ebola, will attend a news conference,...
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Report: Global Obesity Costs Hits $2 Trillion
This is a Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007 file photo of an overweight person eating in London. A new report by the McKinsey Global Institute released Thursday Nov. 20, 2014 that the global cost of obesity has...
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Town Ends Bid to Ban Tobacco Sales After Outcry
In a Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 file photo, citizens hold signs at the Westminster Board of Health meeting on the proposed tobacco ban, at the Westminster Elementary School, in Westminster, Ma. On...
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Early Statin Use May Give Long-Term Heart Benefits
This June 14, 2011, file photo, shows the drug Lipitor at Medco Health Solutions Inc., in Willingboro, N.J. A new study shows very long-term benefits from even short-term use of cholesterol-lowering...
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Soaring Generic Drug Prices Draw Senate Scrutiny
This June 14, 2011 file photo shows various prescription drugs on the automated pharmacy assembly line at Medco Health Solutions, in Willingboro, N.J. Some low-cost generic drugs that have helped...
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