African-Americans More Prone to Prostate Cancer by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper It’s an occurrence that Maryland’s Dr. Sanford Siegel...
MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When the economy tanks, women have fewer babies. But what happens in the following years, when conditions...
by Ron Pollack Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper As we head into autumn, people with Medicare once again need to consider their options for...
Josh Funk, ASSOCIATED PRESS OMAHA, Neb. (AP)—After three weeks in isolation, an American doctor who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa says he’s grateful for the...
Hope Yen, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen U.S. senators from both parties are calling on the Obama administration to broaden a Medicaid program...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of uninsured patients admitted to hospitals has dropped markedly this year, reducing charity care and bad debt...
(Diabetes Insider) – Middle aged women whose skirt size is on the rise could be more prone to breast cancer, according to a study carried out...
(Apple Insider) – The Medical ID feature is built in to the new Health application found in iOS 8 for iPhone. Users can configure it...
MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-addiction activists are calling for the Food and Drug Administration’s top official to step down, saying the agency’s...
CANDICE CHOI, AP Food Industry Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Coke, Pepsi and Dr Pepper said Tuesday they’ll work to reduce the calories Americans get from...
by Cora Jackson-Fossett Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel Out-of shape believers, beware! Jeff Williams wants to change your life, spiritually and...
(Daily Digest News) – According to a statement from the American College of Cardiology, simple healthy lifestyle choices, such as keeping a healthy weight and diet, exercising, not...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Six months into the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, scientists say they know more about how the deadly virus behaves....
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore judge has approved a $190 million settlement between Johns Hopkins Hospital and more than 8,000 patients of...
(Washington Post) – Deep in the rain forest, down a dirt road with potholes that swallow four-wheel-drive vehicles, is a tiny point of light in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new injectable diabetes drug from Eli Lilly and Co. for adults with the...
MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health experts said Wednesday there is little evidence that testosterone-boosting drugs are effective for treating common signs...
MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Using artificial sweeteners may set the stage for diabetes in some people by hampering the way their...
Lauran Neergaard and Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the...
Lindsey Tanner, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — The number of American men and women with big-bellied, apple-shaped figures — the most dangerous kind of obesity...
Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer (The Washington Informer)—Suicide claims about 40,000 lives every year in the United States, an alarming statistic that...
(Tech Times) – Schizophrenia is a mental disorder marked by the sufferer’s inability to distinguish what is real and is characterized by confused thinking, false beliefs,...
(USA Today) – Men have lots of reasons to feel bad about losing their hair. Some worry that going bald makes them look old. Others...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health experts say a diabetes drug from Novo Nordisk should be approved for a new use in treating obesity. The panel...
(BBC) – Cuba is sending 165 health workers to help tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, officials say. Doctors, nurses and infection control specialists...
