(HealthDay News) — An active ingredient in some psoriasis and multiple sclerosis medications has been linked to two cases of a rare and sometimes lethal brain infection. The ingredient, dimethyl...
(Raw Story) – Mumia Abu-Jamal, the journalist and former Black Panther convicted for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, had his death sentence...
(Raw Story) – Mumia Abu-Jamal, the journalist and former Black Panther convicted for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, had his death sentence...
(HelpMeOutDoc.com) – This allergy season seems more potent than usual, causing watering eyes and itchy nose symptoms with increased intensity, experts warn. Dr. Ty Coleman...
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Global warming isn’t just affecting the weather, it’s harming Americans’ health, President Barack Obama said Tuesday as he announced steps government and businesses will...
ALISHA GREEN, Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Chronic understaffing and police attitudes toward victims contributed to thousands of rape kits going untested for years in...
Inkster, Mich. (AP) – A 115-year-old Detroit-area woman now listed as the world’s oldest living person still makes plans for a fishing trip each year...
Inkster, Mich. (AP) – A 115-year-old Detroit-area woman now listed as the world’s oldest living person still makes plans for a fishing trip each year...
by Valecia Weeks, CPT, LMT Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times Osteoporosis is the thinning of bone tissue and loss of bone density over...
by Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Cassandra Nivens has experienced painful periods since age 14. To cope with being...
LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Trying to slim down? Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig scored the best marks for effectiveness in a review...
(New York Times) – Sadly, for more than half my life, I had avoided some of nature’s most perfect and healthful foods: nuts and peanuts. I...
MARY ESCH, Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Fourteen attorneys general asked Congress to launch an investigation of the herbal supplements industry and to consider giving...
CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY, Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone found 10 new Ebola cases during a three-day countrywide shutdown, an official said Wednesday, declaring...
(The American Register) – The largest study till date on the rising suicide rate among military personnel is published on Wednesday in The Journal of the...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Billion dollar lawsuit. Hundreds of people, part of a horrific STD study, sue Johns Hopkins University. Nearly 800 former research subjects infected...
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents dropped by 9 percent last year to the...
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents dropped by 9 percent last year to the...
(Reuters) – China will almost double the number of its general doctors by 2020, trim its public sector and improve technology as it seeks to fix a...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As fossil fuel companies and environmental groups fight over the future of American energy, people of...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As fossil fuel companies and environmental groups fight over the future of American energy, people of...
(CNN) – If you’ve already allowed your kids to take a little sip of your beer or wine from time to time, you probably won’t be...
(CNN) – If you’ve already allowed your kids to take a little sip of your beer or wine from time to time, you probably won’t be...
By Kristen Bole, UCSF News A newly discovered cache of industry documents reveals that the sugar industry worked closely with the National Institutes of Health in...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The intensive care unit is a last frontier for physical therapy: It’s hard to exercise patients hooked to...