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Cierra Sisters: Breaking the Cycle of Fear for Women with Breast Cancer
Bridgette Hempstead, founder and president of Cierra Sisters, a breast cancer awareness and support group for African American women, looks to educate and empower men and women about the realities of...
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What if Americans Ate Like South Africans and Vice Versa?
Potjiekos, a stew (Borisgorelik/CC BY-SA 3.0) Maanvi Singh, NPR (NPR.com) — They switched diets. Twenty South Africans gave up their corn porridge and vegetable stews for burgers and fries. And 20...
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One-Third of Americans Have a Syndrome That Could Kill Them — Do You?
(News Quench) – An alarming 34.7 percent of Americans have a condition known as metabolic syndrome, which stems from high blood pressure and high abdominal fat and can lead to dangerous heart...
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The First Blood Test Than Can Diagnose Irritable Bowel Syndrome
(Silverlink) – Millions of Americans are suffering from irritable bowel syndrome; it is a gastrointestinal syndrome on the large intestine that causes symptoms like cramping gas, bloating,...
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Dreaming, Believing in Prostate Cancer Cure
Robert Ginyard has come up with a unique way to fight prostate cancer. (Courtesy of DiBi Nation) by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Robert Ginyard doesn’t have a cure...
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Two Cups of Coffee a Day Reduces Risk of Erectile Dysfunction
Coffee could be the cure to your bedroom woes (Courtesy of ALAMY) (Telegraph) – Suffering from erectile dysfunction? According to a new study, coffee could be the cure. Researchers from the...
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Skipping Meals May Increase Belly Fat, Study Finds
(iStockPhoto) (CBS News) – Skipping meals may seem like a shortcut to losing weight, but a new study suggests it could backfire and actually increase belly fat. For the study, published in the...
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Heart Risk Factors May Harm Black Women More Than Whites
High cholesterol levels can lead to a build-up of plaque in the arteries, which can increase your risk of heart attack and stroke. (iStock photo) WEDNESDAY (HealthDay News) — The cluster of heart risk...
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Service Dogs That Detect Seizures Make Life Easier To Kids With Disabilities
Assistance dog Zen, a pit bull, allowed former U.S. Marine Joe Bonfiglio, diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, to enjoy everyday activities. Zen helps calm Bonfiglio when he feels the onset...
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Man Invents Possible Breakthrough Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease
FARMINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — What inventor Eric Knight has been working on for five and a half years could be the key to managing Alzheimer’s disease, a devastating illness that touches the lives of a...
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Researchers Find Interchangeability Between Sleep Disorders and Depression in...
(Utah People’s Post) – Sleep problems are often caused by various mental illnesses, such as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder, but a new research shows interchangeability between sleep...
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Guinea Reports 27 New Ebola Cases After Previous Lull
In this Thursday Nov. 20, 2014 file photo, an MSF Ebola heath worker is sprayed as he leaves the contaminated zone at the Ebola treatment centre in Gueckedou, Guinea. Authorities in the country where...
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The Case for Black Doctors
(Ilmicrofono Oggiono/Flickr/CC By 2.0) Damon Tweedy, THE NEW YORK TIMES DURHAM, N.C. (The New York Times) — In virtually every field of medicine, black patients as a group fare the worst. This was one...
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Study Cites Sharp Rise in Suicide by Black Children
Compiled from wire reports Special to the NNPA via the Florida Courier For the first time, a national scientific study has found a higher suicide rate for Blacks than for Whites of any age group....
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Study Peeks Into Healthy Brains to Hunt Alzheimer’s Culprit
In this photo taken May 19, 2015, Judith Chase Gilbert, of Arlington, Va., is loaded into a PET scanner by Nuclear Medicine Technologist J.R. Aguilar at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington....
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Clean Power Plan Affects Black Quality of Life
(Courtesy of NNPA) By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When Cheeraz Gormon received an invitation to lobby in Washington on behalf of President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan with...
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GlobeImmune Hep B Drug Fails Mid-Stage Study, Shares Plunge
Gilead Sciences Inc. headquarters in Foster City, Calif., is seen Thursday, March 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (Reuters) – Drug developer GlobeImmune Inc said its experimental hepatitis B drug...
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Millions of Lives at Risk from Resistance to Antibiotics
Patients receive treatment at the Chest Disease Hospital in Srinagar, India. The country has one of the highest rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the world, in part because antibiotics for the...
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Dyslexia Unrelated to Eye Sight, Study Says
A child suffering from Dyslexia (AP Photo) BRISTOL, England (UPI) - Dyslexia is not connected to bad eyesight, according to a study which found that many patients had near-perfect vision at the same...
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Taco Bell, Pizza Hut: Artificial Ingredients Getting Booted
This Friday, May 23, 2014, file photo shows a sign at a Taco Bell in Mount Lebanon, Pa. Taco Bell and Pizza Hut say they’re getting rid of artificial colors and flavors, making them the latest big food...
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