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October 25, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Minority elders are more frequently becoming nursing home residents compared to whites, a new study has revealed...
October 25, 2011
CHICAGO - First lady Michelle Obama returns to Chicago Tuesday to check out Mayor Rahm Emanuel's "food desert summit" and…
October 24, 2011
In a new study, diabetes appears to dramatically increase a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or other types of…
October 24, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Despite this influx of transracial adoptions, the number of black families adopting outside of their race is…
October 20, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - ESPN is reporting that Detroit Lions running back Jerome Harrison has a brain tumor...
October 20, 2011
OPINION - Dr. Roselyn Aker-Black, psychologist and CEO of Til Death Foundation in Washington, DC, says black youth has always…
October 20, 2011
The National Cancer Institute has awarded, in total, $19.3 million to a group of researchers to explore racial disparities in…
October 18, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The quest for the world's first malaria vaccine appears to have taken a big step: A study…
October 18, 2011
BLACK DOCTOR.ORG - The mortality rate is as much as double that of white women, despite the fact that white…
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 13, 2011
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. (AP) - Eric LeGrand makes this face sometimes. He scrunches up his nose and mouth, wiggles them a…
October 12, 2011
OPINION - The self breast exam has become a search party in the minds of many women. The problem is…
October 11, 2011
BROWN (US) - African-American nursing home residents are less likely to get flu shots than whites, even within the same…
October 11, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - For one day, The YMCA of Greater Atlanta housed some of the smartest, most beautiful woman you'll…