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Study Finds Equality Between Sexes at Moment of Conception
In this 1930, file photo, a nurse holds a baby in the nursery of the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Every year, slightly more boy babies than girl babies are born. But back when sperm meets...
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Exercising Critically Ill Patients May Help Speed Recovery
In this photo provided by the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, taken March 11, 2015 in the intensive care unit at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, physical therapist Katie Kellner helps patient...
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China Aims to Double Doctor Numbers as Cure for Healthcare Woes
In this Dec. 9, 2014 file photo, Chinese government propaganda words which read “Prosperity and Powerful” are displayed on a wall near a construction site in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, FIle)...
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Foreign Adoptions by Americans Reach Lowest Mark Since 1982
A graph on foreign adoptions by Americans from 2008. Levels have dropped since this. (AP) DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents dropped...
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Kids Allowed Sips of Alcohol Are More Likely to Drink in High School, Study Says
In this June 6, 2008 file photo, a row of freshly poured draft beers are seen in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) (CNN) – If you’ve already allowed your kids to take a little sip of your...
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Supreme Court to Decide Pollution Standards for Black Communities
Jacqui Patterson, director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, speaks to press outside the Supreme Court. (Jazelle Hunt/NNPA News Wire Service) By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington...
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Faces $1 Billion Lawsuit Over STD Study
Johns Hopkins Hospital (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Billion dollar lawsuit. Hundreds of people, part of a horrific STD study, sue Johns Hopkins University. Nearly 800 former...
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No Link Between Suicide and Military Deployments
Soldiers of the U.S. Army 23rd Chemical Battalion. (Lee Jin-man/AP) (The American Register) – The largest study till date on the rising suicide rate among military personnel is published on Wednesday...
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10 Ebola Cases Found During Sierra Leone’s Shutdown
In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, healthcare workers load a man, center, onto a ambulance as he is suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus in Kenema, Sierra Leone. (AP...
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Prosecutors Seek Congressional Probe of Supplement Industry
MARY ESCH, Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Fourteen attorneys general asked Congress to launch an investigation of the herbal supplements industry and to consider giving the U.S. Food and Drug...
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Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig Get Best Marks in Diet Review
In this April 3, 2015 photo, Michele Rouse holds a salad that she made in her kitchen in Edgewood, Md. Rouse says she has lost 7 pounds since she started on Weight Watchers a month ago and has already...
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Endometriosis: More than Just Painful Cycles
Chandelis marching with Team Virginia at the Endo march on Capitol Hill. (Photos by Jonathan Hunter) by Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Cassandra Nivens has...
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Healthy Bones
by Valecia Weeks, CPT, LMT Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times Osteoporosis is the thinning of bone tissue and loss of bone density over time. There are no symptoms in the early stages...
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Report: Detroit Model in Effort to Clear Rape-Kit Backlog
ALISHA GREEN, Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Chronic understaffing and police attitudes toward victims contributed to thousands of rape kits going untested for years in Detroit, but the city’s...
View ArticleDid Obama Link His Daughter’s Asthma To Climate Change?
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Global warming isn’t just affecting the weather, it’s harming Americans’ health, President Barack Obama said Tuesday as he announced steps government and businesses will take to...
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Suggestions for Surviving the Allergy Season
(HelpMeOutDoc.com) – This allergy season seems more potent than usual, causing watering eyes and itchy nose symptoms with increased intensity, experts warn. Dr. Ty Coleman of Allergy Partners of the...
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Detroit-Area Woman, 115, Now Listed as World’s Oldest Person
Jeralean Talley (Courtesy of ABC News) Inkster, Mich. (AP) – A 115-year-old Detroit-area woman now listed as the world’s oldest living person still makes plans for a fishing trip each year and...
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MS, Psoriasis Drugs and Deadly Brain Infections
(HealthDay News) — An active ingredient in some psoriasis and multiple sclerosis medications has been linked to two cases of a rare and sometimes lethal brain infection. The ingredient, dimethyl...
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Study: Short People’s Genes May Confer Higher Heart Risks
In this Monday, June 24, 2002 file photo, a doctor points to an image of a coronary artery with 80-90 percent blockage in St. Louis. A study published by the New England Journal of Medicine on...
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New Photograph of Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal Suggests Scary Medical Neglect
This undated file photo shows convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Goddard College, a liberal arts college in Plainfield, Vt., with 600 students, said on its website Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, that...
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