Cancer

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March 15, 2012
theGRIO VIDEO - Bone marrow from New York postal worker Audrey Pollard saved the life of a man thousands of…
February 9, 2012
Patricia Stephens Due stayed in jail for 49 days, refusing to pay bail after she was arrested for sitting at…
January 25, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Since the late 1980s, Burke County residents have experienced a veritable cancer epidemic. Some link the higher…
January 21, 2012
OPINION - Due to lower screening rates, cervical cancer is more likely to afflict black and Hispanic women more than…
January 18, 2012
Blackdoctor.org - When it comes to dietary supplements, men -- like women -- desire better health, disease prevention and improving…
December 29, 2011
CLUTCH - After being married to his wife Keasha Ruteleage-Draft for one month former NFL star, Chris Draft was stricken…
November 23, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - As families pile into cars heading south for Turkey Day, or board airplanes toward the opposite coast,…
November 18, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Former Penn State students say legendary football coach, Joe Paterno failed to address a scandal involving hate…
November 8, 2011
(AP) - There was a time when Muhammad Ali taunted Joe Frazier relentlessly, called him ugly and challenged his manhood...
October 11, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - For one day, The YMCA of Greater Atlanta housed some of the smartest, most beautiful woman you'll…
October 7, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - A civil rights scholar who became the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School has…
October 7, 2011
(Reuters Health) - Few media stories on cancer venture into issues of death, dying and end-of-life care -- and outlets…
October 6, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Steve Jobs' death has instantaneously raised the public's awareness of pancreatic cancer...
September 28, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - With over 21,000 new cases of ovarian cancer a year - including 15,000 deaths -- it ranks…
September 22, 2011
VIDEO - The young mother, Arielle Brooks, 22, of 14-month-old baby Myah is being accused of raising tens of thousands…
June 21, 2011
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) - The labels, which show rotting teeth, diseased lungs, and a smoker's corpse, cover the top half…
June 3, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - After spending about six months in the hospital, Reggie Evans took honors courses, ended up with a…
May 28, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - One in five African-American men is diagnosed with prostate cancer, one in 20 die from it...
May 12, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - A third of those deaths are among African-Americans, who predominately smoke cigarettes with menthol flavoring...
February 17, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The newly recreated Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC) has made health one of their four key…