By Angelo C. Louw (NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist) With new infection rates and AIDS-related deaths on a decline globally, it seems we are finally gaining ground...
Patricia Maryland NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the rate of new cases of diabetes in the...
(AOL) – Those red eyes you get from swimming aren’t caused by chlorine, according to an official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it is investigating what the Pentagon called an...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of uninsured U.S. residents fell by more than 11 million since President Barack Obama signed the health...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Tuesday released a draft of long-awaited federal guidelines on circumcision, saying medical evidence...
(USA Today) – Texas nurse Amber Vinson, who was declared free of Ebola virus and discharged from Emory University Hospital, said Tuesday she is “so...
DALLAS (CBS News) — About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in...
Anne Flaherty, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) â Last May, as Ebola crept across West Africa, America’s top infectious disease expert told a group of Harvard students in...
(CNN) — Concerns about even remote chances of Ebola exposure rippled from a U.S. airline to a ship off Belize on Friday, with Frontier Airlines trying to...
(FinalCall.com) – Many were alarmed but not surprised when the first documented case of the Ebola virus showed up in the United States and an...
The Associated Press Here are some facts about how Ebola spreads: WHEN IS EBOLA CONTAGIOUS? Only when someone is showing symptoms, which can start with vague...
(NBC News) – American hospitals may need to step up their training for potential Ebola patients, some advocates say, after a Texas incident raised fears about...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials have warned for months that someone infected with Ebola could unknowingly carry the virus to this country. Now it has...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s traveled to the sites of worrisome outbreaks of SARS, bird flu, MERS. But the Ebola outbreak that’s...
(The Washington Post) – Dent Thompson had never heard of Samaritan’s Purse when the Christian relief group called last month and asked for his help....
by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Terrence Morgan has heard the stories over and over. Black men are absent from...
(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...
(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...
(USA Today) – Antibiotic resistance that turns ordinary disease-causing bacteria into illnesses that can’t be controlled could bring about the “next pandemic,” Centers for Disease Control...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials are worried about recent U.S. measles outbreaks that so far have caused more illnesses than...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Blacks account for more new HIV infections, people estimated to be living with HIV disease, and HIV-related deaths than any...
[UPI] HYATTSVILLE, Md., Oct. 30 (UPI) — In 2011-12, an estimated 13 percent of U.S. adults ages 20 and older had high total cholesterol, unchanged from 2009-10,...
By Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although Black and Latina youth represent only 35 percent of all U.S. teenagers, they accounted for 84.4...
[BET] When it comes to news about HIV/AIDS in the African-American community, oftentimes it isn’t encouraging. But some recent data released at the International AIDS Conference by the Centers for Disease Control...
