Med Students Don’t Wait To Give Back
By Jazelle Hunt
NNPA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – According to the American Association of Medical Colleges, there are only 2.3 physicians for every 1,000 people...
ABLE Act Could Help Disabled To Save
By Jazelle Hunt
NNPA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As of 2006, more than 2.4 million African Americans receiving Social Security benefits are disabled, or are...
Tuberculosis: The Contagious Disease That Won’t Go Away
Every week, we get a reminder in King County that tuberculosis (TB) not only lingers among us, but is a constant danger. Last year,...
Dennis Johnson: How Healthy Habits Can Hold Off Kidney Complications
By Elaine Porterfield
Special to The Medium
Dennis Johnson got the news from his doctor more than three decades ago: something was happening to his kidneys....
Reducing The Risk Of HIV By 90 Percent
By Phill Wilson
NNPA Columnist
This Friday, February 7h, is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD). It’s an opportunity for the nation to take a...
Some Hopeful Signs In The HIV/AIDS War
By Jazelle Hunt
NNPA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Rae Lewis Thornton likes to sneak in a tranquil tea time between expanding her brand and the...
The Obama Administration Is Hustlin’ Backwards
NEWS ANALYSIS
By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III
(Trice Edney Wire) - "I am sorry that they (people losing their health insurance) are finding themselves in this...
Health Disparities Group Pushing For Equality In Immunizations
(Trice Edney Wire) - A working group of Black leaders is calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand the recommendations...
‘Baby-Friendly’ Hospitals Bypass Black Communities
By Rita Henley Jensen
Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from Women's eNews.
(Trice Edney Wire)-Very few of the maternity wards that have won a...
More Moms Breastfeeding, States Report
Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Richmond Free Press
(Trice Edney Wire) - More mothers in the United States are breastfeeding their...
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Black Americans Have Doubts About the U.S. Food System, New Word...
A new Word In Black survey reveals Black Americans deeply value healthy eating but face steep barriers: six in 10 distrust food safety, rising prices force trade-downs to cheaper options, and most want lower costs, more neighborhood grocery stores, and nutrition education to bridge the gap between knowledge and access.
