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theGRIO REPORT – Many necessary retail resources were either non-existent, scarce or required traveling some distance…
theGRIO REPORT – Black children are less likely to receive a prescription antibiotic than their nonblack counterparts — even when treated by the same health provider…
Black Health Matters – According to the National Restaurant Association, 30,000 restaurants nationwide are part of the association’s Kids LiveWell program that helps parents and children choose healthy meal items when dining out…
theGRIO REPORT – After more than three decades of studying life-threatening sickle cell disease, the most prevalent of all hereditary illnesses, University of Michigan Medical School researchers have discovered that an anti-depressant wipes out the disorder in lab-tested human blood and mice…
BLACKDOCTOR.ORG – Physical and/or sexual abuse may be potential asthma causes in black women. In fact, abuse may more than double the odds of a child having asthma…
theGRIO REPORT – Now that the Affordable Health Care Act is law, consumers can start exploring health insurance plans that will suit their needs and budgets, protect their rights, and lower the cost to tax payers…
theGRIO REPORT – When Vince Wilson, 44, was in his early 20s, he considered being a doctor, yet his own insecurities held him back…
OPINION – We’ve seen how people, organizations and events have shaped who we are as African-American women…
theGRIO REPORT – Many parents lament over their children not following directions, lack of focus or inability to sit still…
SLIDESHOW – With consequences ranging from catching a virus to bad gingivitis, sometimes a kiss is not just a kiss…
theGRIO REPORT – A new report shows that nearly 20 million new sexually transmitted infections occur annually…
theGRIO REPORT – The pediatrician’s first reaction to then second-grader Kayla Haye’s budding breasts—a sign of the child’s premature puberty—was to consider placing her on therapeutic hormones…
theGRIO REPORT – There’s been a significant increase in HIV testing among black women in just the last three years. With that awareness, however, comes what some consider unfortunate consequence…
theGRIO REPORT – It’s pretty well understood that unprotected vaginal intercourse places the two people involved at a higher risk for spreading HIV, yet so do other common sexual behaviors that you may not have thought about…
theGRIO REPORT – The overall rate of African-American deaths from cancer is declining and African-American men are seeing the fastest decline than any other group…
theGRIO REPORT – The foods, robust flavors and healthy cooking techniques that were core to the wellbeing of our ancestors may actually be the path to optimal health…
theGRIO REPORT – A 2011 article in Science uncovered that black scientists are more likely to be rejected for medical research grants. Yet, a new study refutes any racial bias in the process…
theGRIO REPORT – If you managed to escape the flu, there’s yet another threat to your immune system: a highly contagious stomach bug called norovirus…
theGRIO REPORT – If not for a doctor’s visit to investigate a boil under her arm, Tamika Felder, age 25, would not have known that she had cervical cancer…