[CBC] There’s no clear evidence supporting decades-old dietary guidelines to cut our saturated fat intake to promote heart health, a new review concludes. The review of...
[Telegraph] Those attempting to protect themselves against dementia should put down the crossword and go for a jog, leading researchers have advised. Scientists said a growing...
[New York Times] The first confirmed case of lesbian transmission of H.I.V. was reported on Thursday by federal health officials, who said the event was exceedingly...
Keeping your blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol in check reduces the risk of developing kidney disease or kidney failure by Sandra Jordan Special to the...
by Dr. Gerald Deas Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News If the great baseball player Darryl Strawberry would have eaten more strawberries,...
[Clinical Advisor] HealthDay News — A blood test has been developed that can predict with 90% certainty whether a senior will suffer from dementia such as...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Exciting research suggests that a shot every one to three months may someday give an alternative to the daily pills...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Just try sugar-coating this: The World Health Organization says your daily sugar intake should be just 5 percent...
The stigma associated with mental illness, mistrust of the health care system, and fear of ‘putting my business in the street’ are some of the factors...
LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Most people who abuse addictive prescription painkillers get them for free from friends or relatives, while drug dealers...
MONDAY, March 3, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Two decades after the passage of a landmark law mandating that women be represented in government-funded medical research, a...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s second-largest for-profit child care provider is adopting Michelle Obama’s healthy eating and activity guidelines. The Learning Care...
by Valecia Weeks Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times If your feet could talk…. what would they say? Would they say, “I feel nice...
MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A consumer advocacy group is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to add a bold warning label...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even the scoreboards in high school gyms will have to advertise only healthy foods under new rules announced...
Feb 25 (Reuters) – An experimental once-weekly medicine for type 2 diabetes developed by Eli Lilly and Co proved as effective in lowering blood sugar as...
[USA Today] Sitting too much, sometimes called sitting disease, may increase the risk of disability in people over age 60, a new study suggests. Adults this...
CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — For many older Americans who lost jobs during the recession, the quest for health care has been...
(Reuters Health) – People who have had a knee or hip replacement reap the benefits of intense rehab months after they’ve returned home, according to a...
(Reuters) – More test-tube babies were born in the United States in 2012 than ever before, and they constituted a higher percentage of total births than...
LONDON: Loneliness is a major health risk for the elderly and it can increase the risk of premature death by 14%, warns a new research. A meta-analysis showed...
LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Veteran TV newsman Tom Brokaw has been diagnosed with cancer, NBC News said Tuesday. The Mayo Clinic...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Even though Blacks get tested for HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), the virus that causes AIDS more than...
By Charles Ornstein Special to the NNPA from ProPublica Much has been written (and will continue to be written) about the spectacular failure of health insurance exchanges...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is warning against eating Uncle Ben’s rice products served at schools, restaurants, hospitals...
