Neal Bennett, WTLV- and WJXX-TV via USA TODAY JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (USA Today)—A major breakthrough could be coming for patients who suffer from a particularly aggressive type...
Paying attention to your health is a key part of living a better life. To do that, you must become conscious of your health choices and...
By Quiana Lewis (Quiana Lewis joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2014 as a program associate, working to build a Culture of Health by...
(The Times-Gazette) – Researchers have developed a new smartphone accessory that can be used to diagnose HIV and syphilis within 15 minutes; and it works...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Thousands of travelers to the Caribbean and nearby regions are coming home with an unwanted souvenir: a mosquito-borne virus that...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The gap appears to be closing between death rates for black and white Americans infected with the...
By David Siders, Sacramento Bee Last year, after the Food and Drug Administration approved a breakthrough new drug for hepatitis C, health officials around the country...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking another look at President Barack Obama’s health care law, and this time it’s not...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer For the first time, lung cancer has passed breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths for women in...
Black History Month is a time when we can reflect on the lives of the loved ones we have lost to AIDS. In Black America, HIV...
National Nurses United have announced a donation of $40,000 to the disaster relief organization International Medical Corps, which is on the front lines of the Ebola...
(The Independent) – Years of running too long and too far could be as bad for you as doing nothing at all, a study has...
(USA Today) – The transition to retirement isn’t always easy, especially the emotional adjustments, a new survey of retired Baby Boomers shows. About two-thirds (69%)...
(CBS News) – It may seem like Americans have been inundated with calls to get more sleep, but these efforts are not without reason. The...
(CBS News) – It may seem like Americans have been inundated with calls to get more sleep, but these efforts are not without reason. The...
MARY ESCH, Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Bottles of Walmart-brand echinacea, an herb said to ward off colds, were found to contain no echinacea at...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama gathered with beneficiaries of his health care law Tuesday to argue that the persistent effort to wipe it out...
(National Geographic) – The oceans have long taunted those who thirst. Records dating to A.D. 200 show that sailors boiled seawater and used sponges to...
(CNBC) – Sanofi launched an inhalable insulin in the United States on Tuesday in a potential boost for its flagging diabetes drug sales and for patient quality...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Most non-medical HIV health care workers earned a “D” when surveyed on the science and treatment...
Abby Phillip, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—In the face of a growing measles outbreak, President Obama is urging parents to heed modern science and vaccinate...
Congressmembers Barbara Lee, Eric Swalwell and Mike Honda will host a free education and enrollment event workshop Saturday, Feb. 7, to help small business owners and...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Declaring that “the possibilities are boundless,” President Obama on Friday announced a major biomedical research initiative, including plans to collect genetic...
ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — With California gripped by a measles outbreak, Dr. Charles Goodman posted a clear notice in his waiting...
(The Westside Story) – Researchers at the University of Birmingham studied the sleeping patterns of professional game players to trace if sleep affects their performance. These...