Blacks Get Kidney Disease, Need Dialysis Three Times More Often Than Whites
By Glenn Ellis
(Trice Edney Wire) - Tina Turner revealed that she underwent a kidney transplant with an organ donated by her husband. The 78-year-old singer...
‘Fresh Prince’ Star Puts Grace, Soul And ‘Motherwit’ Into New Cookbook
By Stacy M. Brown
NNPA Newswire Contributor
For those who only know Daphne Maxwell-Reid as “Aunt Viv” from the smash 1990s hit comedy, “The Fresh Prince...
Nearly 800 Dietary Supplements Contained Unapproved Drug Ingredients, Study Finds
By Susan Scutti, CNN
(CNN) -- Nearly 800 dietary supplements sold over the counter from 2007 through 2016 contained unapproved drug ingredients, a new analysis...
Obamacare Is About To Get A Bit Cheaper For Lots Of People
By Tami Luhby
CNN
(CNN) -- It will likely cost a little less to buy the benchmark Obamacare plan next year. The rate could drop for...
FDA Finds Another Impurity In Recalled Heart Drug
By Jen Christensen, CNN
(CNN) -- The US Food and Drug Administration said it found an additional "unexpected impurity" in three lots of Torrent Pharmaceuticals'...
K2: The Facts On Synthetic Marijuana
By Glenn Ellis
(Trice Edney Wire) - As if our young people aren’t facing enough challenges to their future, more drug-related troubling news.
If you thought...
Are You Really Allergic To Antibiotics?
By Glenn Ellis
Why do some of us say they were allergic to an antibiotic if we really aren’t?
Because some of us have been incorrectly...
Surgeon Falsely Accused Of Wrongdoing Tries To Recover His Name
By Elizabeth Cohen
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
(CNN) -- Two years ago, Dr. Ricardo Quarrie, a cardiothoracic fellow at Yale New Haven Hospital, was publicly accused...
Fungal Infections And Growing Antibiotic Resistance
By Glenn Ellis
(Trice Edney Wire) - Sadly, the way we’ve been using antibiotics is helping to create new drug-resistant “superbugs".
Antibiotics are among the most...
Lupus And Autoimmune Diseases
By Glenn Ellis
(Trice Edney Wire) - More and more, we are all hearing about friends, family, and even celebrities who are “victims” of autoimmune...
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Students Discover And Publish Unexpected Proof For 2,000-Year-Old Mathematical Theory
Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published an academic paper detailing their original proof of the Pythagorean theorem, which has been praised by mathematicians for its challenging trigonometric approach.
