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July 8, 2009
Previous case studies have shown that African Americans are more likely to die from certain cancers. Leading practitioners in the…
July 8, 2009
Early Thursday evening a member of the North West High School football team in Germantown, Maryland collapsed. Sixteen-year-old Edwin Miller,
July 4, 2009
No matter how unusual their lives may have been so far, Michael Jackson's children now face a universal trauma felt…
July 1, 2009
LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Obesity rates among adults rose in 23 U.S. states over the past
July 1, 2009
Last Friday, the American Climate and Energy Security [ACES] Act sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Markey…
July 1, 2009
LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Mississippi’s still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward
June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, was National HIV Testing Day. People with HIV are being diagnosed too late in the disease process,
June 25, 2009
One question at last night’s prime time health care event on ABC got personal when a neurologist from New York
June 24, 2009
BEN SENGER Teenage girls in Greensboro, North Carolina are offered $1 a day as an incentive to avoid getting pregnant,
June 24, 2009
TRACIE POTTS Exercising your brain is just as important as exercising your body, experts said at a Washington briefing Wednesday.
June 23, 2009
African Americans will be a main focus in a large, government-sponsored study of vitamin supplements set to begin later this
June 22, 2009
AP Photo/Ron Edmonds PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama cited his own long struggle to
June 22, 2009
President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed the pharmaceutical industry's agreement to help close a gap in Medicare's drug coverage, calling…
June 22, 2009
ROXANNE VARGAS MIAMI — You’ve heard of consignment shops for clothes, toys and even wedding dresses, but now one south
June 22, 2009
Brett Johnson Athletic trainers are calling on high school football coaches do eliminate traditional two-a-day practices in order to prevent