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About Dr. Tyeese L. Gaines

Dr. Tyeese Gaines is a medical journalist with more than 20 years of print and broadcast experience, and a board-certified emergency medicine physician with years of healthcare management experience. Since earning her master's degree in journalism from Northeastern University in 2003, Dr. Ty has appeared as an on-air medical expert for local and national news shows and written for various online, magazine and newspaper outlets. She currently hosts the Black America's Health Youtube series.

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October 17, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Cutting Medicaid as a cost-saving measure would overlook a large majority of blacks and Latinos with serious…
October 14, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - While athleticism at their ages is impressive, both match ups raise the same question -- at what…
October 6, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Steve Jobs' death has instantaneously raised the public's awareness of pancreatic cancer...
September 5, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Lowering a person's risk of diabetes does not have to be all or nothing, based on new…
September 1, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Black American babies fare worse than other groups -- over two times more likely than white babies…
August 29, 2011
OPINION - Youth boxing programs aim to teach children discipline, promote physical fitness and provide them with positive choices, especially…
August 19, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Regardless of achievement or education, black scientists are more likely to be rejected for medical research funding,…
August 17, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Africa's first human milk bank opened this month, providing donated breast milk to at-risk infants on the…
August 16, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Melanin protects darker skin from premature aging and damage from UV rays, but its protection increases the…
August 11, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The only factor more influential than socioeconomic status was having a previously diagnosed sexually transmitted infection --…
August 3, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - This is not a coincidence, according to infectious disease experts...
August 2, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - For the first time, researchers are looking into the genetic makeup of African-Americans and changing the way…
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July 29, 2011
theGrio breaks down which self-perpetuating characteristics of the Black community are facts and which are fiction.
July 12, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - JaMichael Brown broke records with his birth weight of 16 pounds and his mother can celebrate a…
June 24, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - If diagnosed early, the patient has fewer years of suffering. It never goes away completely, but it…
June 1, 2011
SLIDESHOW - From the first AIDS case on June 5, 1981 until now, black Americans have been significantly affected by…
May 31, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - When the first case of AIDS was reported on June 5, 1981, AIDS was described as a…
May 29, 2011
OPINION - Instead of solely spouting more statistics on the disparities, we aim to teach you about each disease and…
May 29, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Forty percent of African-American adults have some form of heart disease, and they are 30 percent more…
May 28, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - One in five African-American men is diagnosed with prostate cancer, one in 20 die from it...