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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January 3, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Adopting a healthier lifestyle doesn’t have to mean deprivation or struggle—not if you take the right approach...
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December 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Food sitting at room temperature for over two hours creates the perfect environment for food poisoning...
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December 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The number of black women newly infected with HIV in 2010 is 21 percent lower than it…
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December 13, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A new study shows that breast cancer survivors are at greater risk of diabetes...
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December 13, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The connection between genital herpes and HIV remains understated and overlooked. Unfortunately, it’s an important one...
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December 11, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The flu is here. Are you ready? Approximately 200,000 people are hospitalized for flu-related complications each year.…
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December 5, 2012
Among two ethnic groups in central Africa, masturbation and homosexuality seem not to exist...
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November 28, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Chef Bryant Terry has focused the last 10 years of his career on food justice activism...
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November 26, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - For the past year, Presceia O. Cooper has worked as assistant general manager at Darryl’s Corner Bar…
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November 26, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The reality is, feeling tired, sudden vision changes, increased thirst, and frequent urination are classic symptoms of…
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November 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, where he also attended culinary school, Chef Marcus Samuelsson’s skills…
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November 18, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Two years ago, Chef Maxcel Hardy became the personal chef for NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire...
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November 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Atlanta-based chef Jamika Pessoa left her job as a marketing executive to pursue a career in the…
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November 12, 2012
HEALTHLINE - Black Americans also have a higher incidence of kidney cancer to begin with, but despite comparable tumor size,…
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November 8, 2012
OPINION - Obesity rates in the United States remain unacceptably high, and the epidemic persists in affecting Blacks and Hispanics…
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November 1, 2012
OPINION - It seems as if the Republican party, or at least Governor Romney himself, has finally latched onto the…
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October 29, 2012
NBC News - Tamiko Brooks tenses as she recalls an emergency room visit two weeks ago with her 14-year-old daughter,…
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October 17, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Dr. Tyeese Gaines, emergency medicine physician and health editor for theGrio.com, answers a reader question about dropping…
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October 16, 2012
CLUTCH - Breast cancer is a voracious disease. But for all of the lives claimed, there are 2.6 million survivors.…
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October 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - It’s not just women. Guys are just as conscious about their outward appearance as we are. Yet,…