Lack of Vitamin D Can Be Serious
Because Black women are three times as likely as their White counterparts to have a vitamin D deficiency, they have an increased risk of vaginosis, a vaginal infection bacteria, a study in the June...
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News From Around the Web: Jan. 12 Edition
In today’s top news, Haiti marks the somber two-year anniversary of its history-making earthquake, a lawsuit pops the top on racial discrimination at Pepsi, Co., and Jay-Z’s and Beyoncé’s new baby...
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News From Around the Web: Feb. 3 Edition
In today’s top news, January’s Black unemployment numbers show signs of an economic thaw, a study finds that Southern Blacks have more opportunity and Don Cornelius’s son says his dad was ‘unhappy.’...
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News From Around the Web: Feb. 8 Edition
In today’s top news, Nicki Minaj is slated to debut a new song at the Grammys, Obama decides to accept super PAC donations and coroner rules Don Cornelius’s death a suicide. Nicki Minaj to debut new...
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News From Around the Web: May 7 Edition
In today’s top news, the last of 11 students charged in FAMU hazing case turns herself in to authorities, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder calls violence in Detroit “unacceptable” and Black women see...
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News From Around The Web: July 10 Edition
In today’s top news, a family friend of Usher is under investigation for the Jet Ski incident that left his stepson brain dead, Romney outspends Obama this month once again and a report reveals that...
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News From Around the Web: Dec. 21 Edition
In today’s top news, Michelle Obama writes an open letter to Newtown, church bells in Newtown chimes 26 times in honor of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, and Fat Joe pleads guilty to tax evasion....
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News From Around the Web: Feb. 28
(Photo: Michael Nagle/Getty Images) In today’s top news, Black leaders are calling for Dov Hikind, New York’s “blackface” assemblyman, to resign; the disparity between Blacks’ and whites’ median...
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News From Around the Web: March 8
(Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images) In today’s top news, the African-American unemployment rate has held steady at 13.8 percent, Michael Jordan applied for a marriage license and Philadelphia officials...
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News From Around the Web: April 8
(Photo: Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images) In today’s top news, the Obama administration requested $25.6 billion in its 2013 budget to spend on the drug war, Trayvon Martin’s parents have settled a...
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Health: AIDS Experts Say Economy Threatens Vaccine Research
AIDS Experts say economy threatens vaccine research . The current global economic situation could damage funding for AIDS research and vaccine development, said experts at the AIDS Vaccine 2008...
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Health: Only 2 Percent of Cancer Docs Are Black, 3 Percent Hispanic; Black...
Only 2 percent of cancer docs are Black, 3 percent Hispanic. Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the American Society of Clinical Oncology have partnered to create the Komen/ASCO Diversity in Oncology...
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Black Women Are Shrinking
While the average height of adults has been growing worldwide, Black American women appear to be shrinking, new data show. The startling findings seems to affect women born in the late 1960s,...
View ArticleExercise Just Makes You Eat More
Turns out that calories might not be the main reason for obesity. In a new study, researchers from Loyola University Health System compared Black Chicago women to women in rural Nigeria. What they...
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HEALTH: Black Women Get More Aggressive Breast Cancer
While it’s nothing new that Black women have a lower overall rate of breast cancer than their White counterparts, a new study concludes that they are three times more likely than women of other races...
View ArticleMany Black Breast Cancer Patients Refuse Treatment
About 20 percent of Black women with late-stage breast cancer refuse chemotherapy, and about 25 percent refuse radiation therapy, according to a new report. Experts say that if they are to address the...
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