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Stephanie Ward drives her two biracial children to a black school an hour away to give them a break from…
In Chicago this weekend, a 12-year-old boy was critically wounded in a drive-by shooting, another victim what has seemed like…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama turned to the Deep South for the next surgeon general, choosing a rural Alabama…
Previous case studies have shown that African Americans are more likely to die from certain cancers. Leading practitioners in the…
Early Thursday evening a member of the North West High School football team in Germantown, Maryland collapsed. Sixteen-year-old Edwin Miller,
No matter how unusual their lives may have been so far, Michael Jackson's children now face a universal trauma felt…
LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Obesity rates among adults rose in 23 U.S. states over the past
Last Friday, the American Climate and Energy Security [ACES] Act sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Markey…
LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Mississippi’s still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward
Saturday, June 27, was National HIV Testing Day. People with HIV are being diagnosed too late in the disease process,
One question at last night’s prime time health care event on ABC got personal when a neurologist from New York
BEN SENGER Teenage girls in Greensboro, North Carolina are offered $1 a day as an incentive to avoid getting pregnant,
TRACIE POTTS Exercising your brain is just as important as exercising your body, experts said at a Washington briefing Wednesday.
African Americans will be a main focus in a large, government-sponsored study of vitamin supplements set to begin later this