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March 30, 2023
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug…
March 29, 2023
Leticia Alvarenga shares her story about her early diagnosis of colon cancer at the young age of 43.
March 29, 2023
Dr. Sandra Scott, executive director of the Brookdale Hospital Campus of One Brooklyn Health, is breaking barriers.
March 27, 2023
Philadelphia residents are being told that they may want to drink only bottled water following a chemical spill into the…
March 25, 2023
A federal appeals court in New Orleans rejected arguments that the U.S. president has the authority to require that employees…
March 23, 2023
Thirteen years ago, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, creating new pathways to affordable health care.
March 23, 2023
Nearly a decade after the Flint water crisis began, a judge has approved a historic $626 million settlement for the…
AutismRisesAmongBlackFolk, theGrio.com
March 23, 2023
Experts attributed the change to improved screening and autism services for all kids and to increased awareness and advocacy for…
Birth control cancer risk, Black women and breast cancer theGrio.com
March 23, 2023
Doctors discuss the findings of a new study and what they mean for those who use various types of hormonal…
Black people health care system -- woman getting modern flu or Covid-19 vaccine at doctor's office
March 23, 2023
More than 3,000 participated in the study, which also found that a third who said they would see the doctor…
SuperbugFungus, theGrio.com
March 22, 2023
A new study found cases have continued to shoot up, rising to 476 in 2019, to 756 in 2020, and…
March 20, 2023
An estimated 43,000 people died amid Somalia's longest drought on record last year, and half of them were likely under…
March 19, 2023
Over a year into the pandemic, a lot of doctors and nurses were feeling burned out and they were getting less in-person…
March 19, 2023
Polio is a highly infectious disease mostly spread through water and typically strikes children under five. There is no treatment.
March 19, 2023
Millions of people will enter unfamiliar territory in the health insurance marketplace when they lose Medicaid coverage in the coming…