*A new study by University College London shows a correlation between literacy problems and health problems. Adults with trouble reading are twice as likely to die within five years as adults with no trouble reading. To be fair, what the study actually focused on was the ability of senior citizens to read and comprehend aspirin instructions. More » *via Gawker Tweet Share on [...]

*A new study released shows that college-age African American women have a more difficult time clearing HPV than European-American women. The results were released at the American Association of Cancer Research’s annual 2012 meeting. Black women are also most likely to have an abnormal pap test than European American women. “African-American women are 40 percent more likely to get cervical [...]

*On Wednesday, the drug company Pfizer announced the recall of more than 1 million packets of Lo/Ovral-28 (and the generic Norgestrel/Ethinyl Estradiol) due to a packaging error. The problem stems from placebo pills that were possibly misplaced in monthly blister packs. So on days when women thought they were taking active hormones they may have been taking sugar pills. The [...]

Put your unwanted designer goods to work by Letting It Go to a good cause! The HIV Intervention Project (H.I.P.) is now accepting your unwanted new or used designer clothes, shoes and accessories i.e. belts & precious metals. Read More Tweet Share on Tumblr

*Uninsured patients who show up for non-emergency care at Grady Memorial Hospital, and live outside of Fulton and DeKalb counties, will have to go through financial counseling and pay in full before receiving services. The hospital instituted a sliding fee scale based on income for out-of-county patients in 2009. Patients were asked to pay a portion of the fee up [...]

*In Kingston (Jamaica), Mikeisha Simpson covers her body in greasy white cream and bundles up in a track suit to avoid the fierce sun of her native Jamaica, but she’s not worried about skin cancer. The 23-year-old resident of a Kingston ghetto hopes to transform her dark complexion to a cafe-au-lait-color common among Jamaica’s elite and favored by many men [...]

The 45-year-old actor and author revealed his illness in an interview with NewsOne to discuss his new book, “The Wealth Cure.” “I started by talking about my own personal journey,” Harper said. “That’s the cure side of the book.” “The Wealth Cure” grew out of Harper’s work to cultivate financial literacy with his Manifest Your Destiny Foundation. Harper says that [...]

Today, 13 organizations kicked off Childhood Cancer Awareness month by launching a new initiative to help fight childhood cancer. The Stop Childhood Cancer Alliance was created to be the driving force in increasing awareness of childhood cancer and enhancing support for the young people fighting this disease as well as the clinicians and researchers who are helping them. The alliance [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya (August 4, 2011) — The drought and famine in Somalia have killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5, according to U.S. estimates, the first time such a precise death toll has been released related to the Horn of Africa crisis. The United Nations has said previously that tens of thousands of people have died in [...]

Jell-O, Hawaiian Punch, Pop-Tarts, Skittles, and other brightly colored foods designed to appeal to children aren’t exactly health food. But do they make kids hyperactive?Jell-O, Hawaiian Punch, Pop-Tarts, Skittles, and other brightly colored foods. Doctors and consumer advocates have long argued over whether hyperactivity might be tied to certain dyes and additives used in processed foods. In a two-day meeting [...]

As everyone should know and it should not be a reminder, that AIDS has been the #1 leading cause of deaths in the African American community. When are we as a culture going to realize the severity of this terrible disease that has risen against us. It was once stereotyped as the White Man, Gay people or only in Africa disease, [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Delta Enterprise Corp., of New York, N.Y., is announcing the voluntary recall today of about 600,000 drop side cribs. The crib’s drop side can detach when the spring peg is not engaged, which can cause an entrapment and suffocation risk to infants and toddlers. If the spring [...]

PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania university’s requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts. Officials at historically black Lincoln University said Friday that the school is simply concerned about high rates of obesity and diabetes, especially in the African-American community. “We know we’re [...]