MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thinking about getting inked? Check the bottle first. The Food and Drug Administration is warning tattoo parlors, their...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization on Friday declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public...
(Irish Times) – Screening for prostate cancer could reduce deaths from the disease by about a fifth, according to a major European study published today...
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, Associated Press It’s long been known that faulty BRCA genes greatly raise the risk for breast cancer. Now scientists say a more...
(USA Today) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its highest-level alert for a response to the Ebola crisis in West...
(AllAfrica.com) Abuja, Lagos — It was a solemn atmosphere in Abuja Wednesday as the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, and his Information counterpart, Labaran Maku,...
(Daily Mail) – Healthy people should be encouraged to take a daily dose of aspirin to ward off cancer, according to the leader of a new...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services removed data about many serious hospital errors from public access earlier this month, preventing patients from thoroughly researching the...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Two American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for...
(Bloomberg) – A tiny San Diego-based company provided an experimental Ebola treatment for two Americans infected with the deadly virus in Liberia. The biotechnology drug, produced...
CONAKRY (AFP) – The head of the World Health Organisation and presidents of the west African countries suffering the world’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak were due...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he is taking the Ebola outbreak in Africa seriously. He says the United States is taking precautions for...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is moving to cut down on the thousands of foodborne illnesses linked to chicken and...
(The Washington Post) – Don’t for a minute think that the Cheesecake Factory makes the most caloric meal in America. According to the Center for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson is asking surgeons not to use a line of devices for performing hysterectomies and removing growths from the uterus...
WASHINGTON (Xinhua) — A simple blood test to detect a chemical alteration in a single human gene linked to negative thoughts and impulses may reliably predict a...
(Cosmopolitan) – It’s old news that exercise can protect your health and maybe even help you live longer. But a massive new study recently published...
MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — The head of the Pennsylvania State Police urged the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday to withdraw a new...
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Stop sunbathing and using indoor tanning beds, the acting U.S. surgeon general warned in a report released Tuesday that...
In the 10th installment of the Florida Courier’s series on Blacks and mental health, we learn that community institutions are building partnerships with law enforcement to...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In a popular TV advertisement, ordinary citizens loudly declare to the world, “It’s my money, and I need...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When it comes to preventing the spread of germs, maybe the president is on to something with...
By Linda Villarosa Special to the NNPA from The Black AIDS Institute MELBOURNE, Australia – Is the glass half empty – or half full? That was...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — If you have health insurance on your job, you probably don’t give much thought to each year’s renewal....
(Dumb-Out.net) – The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to reopen labs that are involved directly in fighting epidemics according to CDC spokesman Thomas...
