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Blacks Missing Out On ‘Obamacare’ Savings
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Youth HIV Activists Lead Charge To End AIDS In Washington
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Over the past three months, two people at Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines have been diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB). The first...
‘First, You Cry’: Black Press Columnist Battles For Life After ‘Devastating’ Diagnosis
Part I of a Two-part Series
(Trice Edney Wire) - For the past 22 years, Jim Clingman has published his cutting edge "Blackonomics" column in...
Eat Carbs-No Weight Gain!
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NNPA Columnist
The much-maligned carbohydrate (an essential, macro nutrient) has been touted as the bane of your dietary existence for too long. Don’t...
Seattle Woman Grateful For Two Kidney Transplants
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Special To The Medium
Twice a year, Iris Clay celebrates the anniversaries of the days she received each of her two kidney transplants...
Black Women Endure Menopause Longest, Study Shows
Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Howard University News Service
(Trice Edney Wire) - Sarah Finney, 57, said she gets hot flashes...
Blacks Dying For Lack Of Black Help
Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from Howard University News Service
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