Aaron E. Carroll, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — It is becoming easier to get marijuana, legally. In the last 20 years or...
Silvia Fernandez, PIONEER NEWS (PiercePioneer.com) — A new study has examined the statin guidelines for prevention of cardiovascular events to discover that tens of thousands...
Maggie Fox, NBC NEWS (NBC News) — Activists who released a video they say shows a Planned Parenthood doctor discussing the sale of tissue from...
By Mike McGee Special to the NNPA from the Dallas Examiner For many youth across the nation, the transition into adulthood comes with questions. Questions...
Larry Olmstead, USA TODAY (USA Today) — The scene: Buffalo makes a pretty good claim to having invented the chicken wing as we know it,...
Stephen Feller, UPI LONDON (UPI) — A drug used to mute the immune system in transplant patients to prevent the rejection of a new organ...
Mike Stobbe, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — The geographic areas where Lyme disease is a bigger danger have grown dramatically, according to a new...
Harriet McCleod, REUTERS CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) — A South Carolina judge on Thursday extended for another week a temporary order sealing court documents and silencing...
Scott Hensley, NPR (NPR.com) — Consumer Reports, the granddaddy of advice-givers on what to buy, won’t recommend laundry pods containing liquid detergent anymore. The risks...
EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A group of scientists checked a decade’s worth of data about what causes concussions in high school...
LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — For pregnant women, abnormal results from certain prenatal tests may signal that something is wrong — with the...
$32 Billion in Funding Could Raise Awareness By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Lupus, or systemic lupus erythematosus, is a...
(The Washington Post) – In announcing the good news from the latest global HIV/AIDS report that the virus is being beaten back more quickly than expected, United...
Pam Belluck, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — Medicare, the federal program that insures 55 million older and disabled Americans, announced plans on...
Carolyn Gregoire, THE HUFFINGTON POST (The Huffington Post) — A growing body of research is finding that diabetes can take as devastating a toll on...
BOSTON (CBS) – Fifteen-percent of men and five-percent of women suffer from sleep apnea. Treatment at night with a special machine is crucial but can be...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Frustrated by the slow pace of federal action, state attorneys general are waging their own campaigns against the sale and advertising of...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Caught between kids and aging parents, the sandwich generation worries more than most Americans their age about how...
(Dispatch Times) – Heart failure is one of the most common medical conditions in the United States, accounting for approximately 5.1 million cases of affected individuals...
(Healthy, Wild and Free) – Your lymphatic system plays a vital role in your health. It’s also referred to as ‘your second circulatory system’ because it...
(NPR) – Some antidepressants may increase the risk of birth defects if taken early in pregnancy, while others don’t seem to pose the same risks, a...
(Miami Herald) – Consumers with health insurance shouldered more of the expense for their medical care in 2014, but Florida and nearly every other state did little...
(Morning Ticker) – Recently we reported on the FDA’s decision to approve Entresto, a new drug from Novartis that has shown an astonishing 20 percent reduction...
(VOA News) – A panel of experts released its assessment Tuesday on the World Health Organization’s response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak. It said the...
(Forbes) – It used to be that the major hurdle in getting a new drug approved was successfully completing phase 3 trials – the long-term...
