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Johnson & Johnson Starts Project to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
This undated product image provided by Johnson & Johnson shows Emulate’s Organ-On-Chips technology, a computer chip designed to simulate functions of human organs to predict which experimental...
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Long-Term Painkiller Use Linked to Higher Death Risk Among HIV-Positive...
This April 12, 2011 electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows an H9 T cell, blue, infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),...
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Madam Gets 10 Years After Buttocks-Enhancement Death
This undated file photo provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Padge Gordon, also known as Padge Victoria Windslowe. The former madam who performed illegal “body sculpting” with low-grade...
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The Only 20-Minute Outdoor Workout You’ll Need This Summer
(The Huffington Post) – Sweet summertime has finally arrived and what better way to celebrate than pausing that gym membership, saving a little cash and taking your workouts outside? There are so...
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This App For CPR Volunteers Could One Day Save Your Life
(NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0) Anna Almendrala, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post) — This is as close to a bat signal as we’re likely to get. An app that summons trained CPR...
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To Lose Weight, Eating Less Is Far More Important Than Exercising More
Aaron E. Carroll, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — One of my family’s favorite shows is “The Biggest Loser.” Although some viewers don’t appreciate how it pushes people so hard to lose...
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Teens, Loss and Grief
By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper For thousands of youth living in the D.C. metropolitan area the threat of violence creates constant fear. From random...
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Good News for Chocolate Lovers: The More You Eat, the Lower Your Risk of...
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons) (The Washington Post) – Ahh, chocolate. There probably isn’t a more magical ingredient on earth than the sweet, dark brown flavoring used for more than 3,000 years. Today...
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Belly Fat: Gotta Go
by Valecia Weeks Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Let’s face it ladies… SUMMER IS HERE! What does that mean? – more FAT to have to deal with because what do we do during graduation...
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Hospitals Profit from Exorbitant Markups
Growing Movement to curb high medical costs. (Photo credit: The All-Nite Images/Flickr/CC) By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Hundreds of American hospitals are turning a...
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Man Racially Profiled During Planet Fitness Visit
Chris Edmonds (Courtesy Photo) By Ashley Johnson Special to the NNPA from the New Pittsburgh Courier A Wilkins Township man who has dedicated himself to fitness and helping others, claims that a local...
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Is Baby Recession Over? US Births Up After Years of Decline
In this Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014, file photo, Jennie Keane holds her daughter, Clare Elizabeth Keane, who was born at 10:11 a.m. on Saturday. Preliminary figures released by the government on Wednesday,...
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Q&A: What Are Trans Fats and Why Are They Unhealthy?
In this April 26, 2011 file photo, doughnuts are displayed in Chicago. The Obama administration is cracking down on artificial trans fats, calling them a threat to public health. (AP Photo/M. Spencer...
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Sleeplessness Bad for the Heart
(MedPageToday) – Men who slept badly were twice as likely to suffer a heart attack and up to four times as likely to have a stroke compared with those who slept well, according to a Russian study...
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High School Football Players May Be at Doubled Risk of Migraine
The ability of the Riddell Revolution (left) and the Riddell VSR4 (right) helmets to reduce concussion risk was compared in the study. A significant difference in concussion risk between these two...
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Weaker Working Memory Linked to Risky Sexual Activity
Weaker working memory can increase the risk of both early sexual activity and unprotected sexual involvement during adolescence, says a new study by an Indian American researcher. (Times of India) –...
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Researchers Getting Closer to an Effective HIV Vaccine
Dr. Donald Brown holds the human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil in his hand at his Chicago office Monday, Aug. 28, 2006 .(AP/Charles Rex Arbogast) Joe Hennessey, THE MONITOR DAILY (The Monitor...
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Smartphones ‘Can Interfere with Implanted Cardiac Devices’
James McIntosh, MEDICAL NEWS TODAY (Medical News Today) — The research is being presented at the joint meeting of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) of the European Society of Cardiology...
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Doctors Propose Tool to Help Gauge the Value of Cancer Drugs
In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, chemotherapy is administered to a cancer patient via intravenous drip at a hospital in Durham, N.C. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) Marilynn Marchione, ASSOCIATED PRESS...
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Potency Labels Often Wrong on Medical-Marijuana Edibles, Study Finds
In this Sept. 26, 2014 file photo, smaller-dose pot-infused cookies, called the Rookie Cookie, sit on the packaging table at The Growing Kitchen, in Boulder. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File) (The...
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