(Reuters Health) – Heart attacks seem to have a bigger effect on life expectancy for women and African Americans than for white men, a new study...
Lauren Abdel-Razzaq, THE DETROIT FREE PRESS DETROIT (The Detroit Free Press) — The number of African-American males applying to medical school has steadily declined every year except...
Jeff Riley, THE DAILY TIMES GAZETTE (Daily Times Gazette) — With the combined efforts of health officials in the United States and US Preventive Services...
(Salon) – It’s a tale as old as time. Conservatives find themselves backed into a political corner, usually right before a contentious election season. In need...
MARLEY JAY, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that some doctors and pharmacies are getting confused by the...
MARIA CHENG, Associated Press Medical Writer RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response is officially winding...
(BBC) – In the US, poverty, deprivation and exploitation draw thousands of its own children down into a dark underworld that offers few ways out. It...
TRONDHEIM, Norway (UPI) — “Hard” physical training twice a week can help arthritis patients experience less pain and inflammation, as well as a small drop in BMI,...
(Reuters Health) – Being connected to friends, family and social groups may offer some protection against suicide, suggests a new U.S. study. Among more than 70,000...
(Time) – White man’s risk of getting prostate cancer is approximately 1 in 8, whereas for black men the risk was 1 in 4 Black men...
KATHY MATHESON, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An 8-year-old boy who lost his hands and feet to a serious infection has become the youngest patient to...
(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...
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...
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...
(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...
(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...
Brandon Bailey, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jody Kearns doesn’t like to spend time obsessing about her Parkinson’s disease. The 56-year-old dietitian from...
Karen Attiah, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — “All of these police brutality videos on my feed are making me sick,” a black male...
(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...
(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...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Before he was Jamal Lyon, the sensitive, talented gay son of drug dealer-turned-music mogul on the...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More than 1 in 5 sexually active teen girls have used the morning-after pill — a dramatic...
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...
MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Amgen on Tuesday received European approval for its first-of-a-kind cholesterol drug that lowers levels of the artery-clogging substance...
