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Hampton U Receives $13.5 Million Grant To Combat Health Disparities In Minority Men

Hampton, Va. – Hampton University President William R. Harvey recently announced that Hampton University has received a $13.5 million grant from the National Institute on...

What The Affordable Care Act Means To You

By Edna Kane-Williams (Trice Edney Wire) - We’ve heard about it in bits and pieces over the past three years – the Affordable Care Act...

‘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...

Insurance Exchanges Will Extend Coverage To Millions

WASHINGNTON (NNPA) – In less than a week, health insurance market exchanges will open across the nation and more than 40 million Americans, including...

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...

Report: Half Of Single Young Adults Eligible For The Insurance Marketplace Could Get Coverage...

      A new report released Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shows that nearly half (46 percent) of single young...

Obama On Defensive Over Healthcare Glitches

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Under unrelenting attacks –including from Democratic supporters – President Obama and White House officials continue to struggle as they try to...

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...

HPV Vaccines Less Effective For Black Women

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent       WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although Black women are twice as likely as White women to die from cervical cancer, Human...

Affordable Care Act Will Create More Jobs

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Health care reform under the Affordable Care Act is off to a sickly start. There have been...

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‘We Are An Extraordinary Group Of People’: Whoopi Goldberg Launches All...

Whoopi Goldberg has partnered with Chicago-based hospital chain CommonSpirit to launch the All Women's Sports Network (AWSN), the first global network dedicated entirely to women's sports, which is available in 65 countries and running 24/7.