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.

All Articles

theGrio featured stories
July 17, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Effective use of birth control alone could eliminate the 47,000 maternal deaths caused each year by unsafe…
theGrio featured stories
July 10, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The very public declaration of Usher Raymond’s stepson as brain dead highlights a little understood concept...
theGrio featured stories
July 10, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Dr. Tyeese Gaines, an emergency medicine physician and health editor for theGrio.com, answers reader questions about everything…
theGrio featured stories
July 3, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Lack of access to healthy meals during summer months is, ironically, causing two separate health issues among…
theGrio featured stories
June 27, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Of the 1.1 million Americans living with HIV and AIDS, one in five is unaware of his…
theGrio featured stories
June 11, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - From a family history of diseases to bad breath or incurable STDs, theGrio explores health-related issues a…
theGrio featured stories
June 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - When a 7-year-old is bullied to the point of hanging himself, it puts schoolyard teasing into a…
theGrio featured stories
June 4, 2012
SLIDESHOW - We know which diseases we suffer from the most... so, let's take a look at ten conditions that…
theGrio featured stories
June 1, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban on large serving sizes of sugary drinks is yet another effort to curtail…
theGrio featured stories
May 31, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The horrifying thought of a man eating another man’s face leads one to ask: how could someone…
theGrio featured stories
May 30, 2012
OPINION - When Alice Randall’s New York Times opinion piece titled 'Black Women and Fat' appeared, the blogosphere erupted in…
theGrio featured stories
May 26, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - On the road or at home, it’s important to beware of holiday dangers. Keep your weekend from…
theGrio featured stories
May 24, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Homophobia could be causing black men who have sex with men (MSM) to engage in more risky…
theGrio featured stories
May 23, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Dr. Tyeese Gaines, an emergency medicine physician and health editor for theGrio.com, answers reader questions about everything…
theGrio featured stories
May 11, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Black cardiac arrest victims whose hearts stop outside of the hospital are less likely to receive CPR…
theGrio featured stories
May 7, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Moms routinely juggle long lists of to-dos from all facets of their lives except the most important:…
April 23, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Send us the minority health-related questions you want Dr. Ty to ask the White House! Tweet your…
theGrio featured stories
April 16, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The 'choking game' involves decreasing the amount of oxygen to the brain, leading to a sensation which…
theGrio featured stories
April 12, 2012
theGRIO Q&A - With stories of black market butt injections making recent headline, 30-year-old exotic dancer and author Vanity Wonder…
theGrio featured stories
April 11, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - In order for lack of sleep to lead to seizures, Rick Ross would have to have an…