NNPA NEWSWIRE — Contrary to the common biases of people with chronic obesity, Dr. Fatima Stanford, an obesity medicine physician scientist and staunch supporter of the...
From less access to quality healthcare, to the exclusion of anti-obesity medications from Medicare, and most Medicaid and general insurance coverage, our healthcare systems under-prioritizes the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — From less access to quality healthcare, to the exclusion of anti-obesity medications from Medicare, and most Medicaid and general insurance coverage, our healthcare...
By Tamara Shiloh It was during a health careers summer program at the University of Michigan that Alexa Irene Canady (b. 1950) decided to pursue medicine....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In the U.S., African Americans experience disproportionate rates of cardiovascular disease, including heart failure and stroke ix,x and according to one study, were...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — At present the CDC has noted that those with chronic lung disease, moderate to severe asthma, serious heart conditions, those immunocompromised including cancer...
Special to the NNPA from The Florida Courier Two Edward Waters College (EWC) professors are working to decipher a protein code that could be used to...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Scientists have finally figured out how the key gene tied to obesity makes people fat, a major discovery that could...
(Los Angeles Times) – From the earliest Western philosophers to the most technologically-equipped neuroscientists, the apparent connection between creative genius and mental illness has been...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Short people have more risk for heart disease, and now researchers may know why: Genes that govern height also seem...
(The Telegraph) – The majority of cancers are the result of bad luck rather than unhealthy lifestyles or inherited genetic faults, scientists have discovered. For years...
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...
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...
(The Health Site) – A recent study found that people who had a certain variant of the longevity gene KLOTHO were likelier to have enhanced...
[Tech Times] If you’re someone who likes to put off till tomorrow what they can get done today, it’s not because you’re lazy or lacking...
