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Aging Out: Life After Foster Care
Angelicah Malone said school wasn’t really an option for her because the stability wasn’t there. She doesn’t remember any of middle school and when she was placed in Los Angeles foster care, she...
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Planned Parenthood Video: Why Use Tissue From Aborted Fetuses?
Stem cells (kurtislizandchauncey/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) Maggie Fox, NBC NEWS (NBC News) — Activists who released a video they say shows a Planned Parenthood doctor discussing the sale of tissue from...
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Study Looks At New Guidelines for Statin Prescription To More Cardiovascular...
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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Is There Anything Actually ‘Medical’ About Medical Marijuana?
In this Jan. 1, 2014 file photo, employees help customers at the crowded sales counter inside the Medicine Man marijuana retail store, in Denver. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File) Aaron E. Carroll, THE...
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Europe Approves Amgen’s First-in-Class Cholesterol Drug
This April 20, 2010, file photo, shows an exterior view of Amgen offices in Fremont, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Amgen on Tuesday received European...
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Study: Women with Mild Memory Problem Worsen Faster Than Men
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Older women with mild memory impairment worsened about twice as fast as men, researchers reported Tuesday, part of an effort to unravel why women...
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Report: Teen Use of Morning-After Pill is Climbing
In this May 2, 2013, file photo, pharmacist Simon Gorelikov holds a generic emergency contraceptive at the Health First Pharmacy in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical...
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Experimental Eye Drops Could Soon Be Used To Treat Cataracts
(Tech Times) – People with cataracts often have to subject themselves to invasive surgical or laser treatments in order to restore their sight, but according to new research, the eye condition may...
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Why American Teenagers are Having Much Less Sex
(The Washington Post) – The sex life of the American teenager is apparently far less busy than it was in generations past. Less than half of teens older than 14 said they’ve had intercourse, a sharp...
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‘Empire’ Star Jussie Smollett Still a Social Activist
Jussie Smollett (AP Images/Invision) By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Before he was Jamal Lyon, the sensitive, talented gay son of drug dealer-turned-music...
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How Black People Can Emotionally Protect Themselves in the Age of...
Karen Attiah, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — “All of these police brutality videos on my feed are making me sick,” a black male friend of mine from college posted on Facebook recently,...
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Software Turns Smartphones into Tools for Medical Research
In this July 2, 2015 photo, asthma sufferer Elizabeth Ortiz, who uses the Asthma Health smartphone app daily to track her condition, poses for photos at her apartment, on New York’s Lower East Side....
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How Medicare’s New Rules May Improve Eldercare Benefits
(Time) – As the number of elderly Americans soars, Medicare is testing improved benefits for seriously ill seniors. Medicare recently announced new rules that may ease the challenges of senior health...
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Researchers Discover Marker for Postpartum Depression Risk
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (UPI) – Researchers have identified a biomarker in pregnant women’s blood which may indicate their risk for postpartum depression after giving birth. Low levels of the hormone...
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The Evidence Supports Artificial Sweeteners Over Sugar
(New York Times) – In the last few years, I’ve watched a continuing battle among my friends about which is worse for you: artificial sweeteners or sugar. Unless you want to forgo all beverages that...
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Montgomery, AL: Most Sexually Diseased City in U.S.
ATLANTA (UPI) — Montgomery, Ala., beat out Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis and New Orleans as the most sexually diseased city in the U.S., according to an analysis of data from 2013. Researchers at...
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GOP Presses Planned Parenthood Aid Ban, Faces Long Odds
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., joined by, from left, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Sen. James Lankford,...
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Consumer Reports Investigation Reveals How Hospitals Can Make Patients Sick
DETROIT (CBS Detroit) – While hospitals are thought to be sterile, safe environments where sick people get better, not sicker a new investigation by Consumer Reports into hospital-acquired infections...
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Blood Pressure Swings May Raise Risk Of Heart Attack, Stroke Or Fatal Heart...
(HNGN) – A team of researchers studied the association between blood pressure swings and heart disease. The study, published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine, involved analyzing blood...
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Boy Who Lost Hands to Infection Gets Double-Hand Transplant
Double-hand transplant recipient eight-year-old Zion Harvey accompanied by Dr. L. Scott Levin, left, and his mother Pattie Ray, stands during a news conference Tuesday, July 28, 2015, at The Childrens...
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