(USA Today) – Lifting a ban on spending city money on needle exchanges for intravenous drug users prevented 120 new cases of HIV in two years...
(NBC News) – Men who took a once-a-day pill to prevent HIV infection were completely protected for months and sometimes for years, a leading health insurer...
(USA Today) – The decision to stop tobacco sales at all of its drugstores a year ago caused people to buy 95 million fewer packs of cigarettes in...
JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH, Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The World Health Organization declared Liberia Ebola-free for a second time on Thursday after the country hardest hit...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Just in time for the start of the school year, the Department of Education has allocated nearly...
(Politico) – As the Republican battle against Michelle Obama’s school lunch standards resumes in Congress later this month, some food giants are quietly backing away from...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — One more reason to watch the waistline: New research says people’s weight in middle age may influence not...
(Bloomberg) – Americans are getting older, and heavier—and both trends are trouble for the country’s knees. The rate of total knee replacements almost doubled between 2000...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Your heart might be older than you are. A new government report suggests age is just a...
LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A racial gap in kidney transplants appears to have closed, a 13-year study found. Rates of such transplants...
by Valecia Weeks Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times It’s a common saying, “Losing weight is easy…keeping it off is the hard part”....
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Things are “moving in the right direction” in terms of the treatment of mental health...
(CNN) – A person may not have to “see color” to be racist. Some blind people, just like sighted people, make judgments about others based on...
Lindsey Tanner, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — A racial gap in kidney transplants appears to have closed, a 13-year study found. Rates of such transplants...
Maria Cheng, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) — A tiny, wireless pacemaker could offer some heart patients a surgery-free alternative to the traditional devices, a...
Ben Hirschler and Ludwig Burger, REUTERS (REUTERS) — Bayer will move a heart failure drug into final-stage testing this year, boosting its ambitions in...
(The Root) – It’s never much of a surprise when I hear it, but it stings all the same. Freddie Gray would be alive today if...
(Banbury Cake) – A top doctor has warned of a “tidal wave” of diabetes patients as figures revealed one in 10 people are at risk of developing...
(AL.com) – Kraft Heinz has issued a recall for more than 2 million pounds of Oscar Mayer turkey bacon after consumers have reported becoming sick, according to...
LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A pediatricians’ group is recommending that infants at high risk of peanut allergies be given foods containing peanuts...
(Jacksonville.com) – Lou Brock is one of the elite players in baseball history, master of stolen bases and owner of numerous awards and honors. While visiting...
(Fox News) – Taking one or two baby aspirins a day for at least five years was tied to a lower risk of colorectal cancer in...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health care law doesn’t start for another couple of months, but the next...
LONDON (AP) — Health researchers say there are now nearly 47 million people living with dementia globally, up from 35 million in 2009. They warned that...
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Doctors have returned to work at Ghana’s public hospitals, ending a three-week strike that saw only police and military hospitals open...
