by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Sharon Carter does everything that she can to lose weight. After years of overindulging,...
Josh Barro, THE NEW YORK TIMES LOS ANGELES (The New York Times)—News articles often describe Truvada, the daily medication that has been shown to greatly reduce...
(Politico) – A majority of Americans give good reviews for insurance they recently acquired through government exchanges within the past year, a new poll shows. With...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Use of electronic cigarettes by high school students tripled over three years, according to a new government...
DALLAS (USA Today) — Attorneys representing the family of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan said Wednesday the hospital that treated him will pay his relatives an undisclosed...
JOSEPH PISANI, AP Business News NEW YORK (AP) — Gym classes that promise a plump posterior are in high demand. A surgery that pumps fat into...
by Roberto Alejandro Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Childhood obesity has quadrupled in teenagers, and more than doubled in children over the course of...
by Dorothy Rowley Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Older adults who’ve lost their sense of smell — namely, the ability to pick up...
Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—The federal health insurance exchange went live Sunday night for window shopping — a couple days later than some...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — As the biggest-ever outbreak of Ebola continues to ravage West Africa, here are a few key numbers to...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new private sector initiative announced Wednesday will provide at least $450 million in commercial financing to...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Philanthropist Bill Gates says he wants to end malaria in his lifetime and will give more...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — After acknowledging that it bungled the response to the biggest Ebola outbreak in history, the World Health Organization...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare said Friday it will consider paying doctors to counsel patients about their options for end-of-life care, the same idea that spurred...
(New York Times) – Ana Navas-Acien can’t quite recall the moment when she began to worry about arsenic in drinking water and its potential role in...
WASHINGTON, DC (AICR) — Two large new studies provide compelling evidence that obesity increases the risk of the most common type of postmenopausal breast cancer...
CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ever thought that big, pink Gulf coast shrimp you ordered at the restaurant or bought from the store...
(New York Times) – The gray matter of the nucleus accumbens, the walnut-shaped pleasure center of the brain, was glowing like a flame, showing a...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court justices have their first chance this week to decide whether they have the appetite for another major...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators have approved the first vaccine to prevent a potentially deadly form of bacterial meningitis often associated with college dormitories....
Pam Belluck, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Science edged closer on Sunday to showing that an antioxidant in chocolate appears to improve some memory skills...
(Reuters) – Drugmakers are looking for some kind of indemnity from governments or multilateral agencies against possible losses or claims arising from the widespread emergency...
(Bloomberg) – The European Union increased its aid pledge to fight Ebola in West Africa to 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) as Mali became the sixth...
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — From violence to verbal taunts, abusive dating behavior is pervasive among America’s adolescents, according to a new,...
(Huffington Post) – Your dishes are sparkling after you dry them off — or is that just the E. coli? We’re always on the hunt...
