FDA APPROVES NEW DIET DRUG
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new prescription diet drug called Qsymia on Tuesday. The medication produced dramatic weight loss ...
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HAVING A BIG BABY MAY MEEN INCREASED BREAST CANCER RISK FOR MOM
The delivery room was tense as Sandy Byrne struggled and strained to push her son out. Already it had been two painfully difficult hours. ...
Read more ›NEW YORK AUTHORITIES CHARGE 48 IN MASSIVE MEDICAID FRAUD
Federal prosecutors have charged 48 people in a massive fraud that allegedly bought HIV medications and other prescription drugs from Medicaid recipients and sold them to unsuspecting buyers. ...
Read more ›THE PEOPLE’S CLINIC, ”POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
We are continuing this week with our discussion of mental health topics, in recognition of May being Mental Health Month. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a type of anxiety disorder ...
Read more ›SMOKING KILLS
Some 88,000 men and 70,000 women die from lung cancer each year. For African Americans like disco legend Donna Summer, who recently lost her battle with the disease ...
Read more ›FIFTY PERCENT OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED ARE BLACK
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - On October 24, 1974 an unidentified man robbed and raped a pregnant Wayne State University student in a bathroom on campus. The student later picked 19 year-old Edward George Carter, out of a photo lineup that contained multiple pictures of the Black teen. None of the physical evidence - fingerprints, semen and seminal fluid - collected from the scene connected Carter to the crime. Still ...
Read more ›PETITIONS ARE POURING IN FROM ACROSS THE NATION
Hundreds of citizens from across the nation are now expressing their support for the pardons campaign for the Wilmington Ten; joining congresspeople, state lawmakers and civil rights ...
Read more ›WILL GAY MARRIAGE ISSUE DIVIDE BLACK ELECTORATE?
Right on the heels of North Carolina becoming the 31st state in the Union to pass a ban on homosexual marriage, President Barack Obama announced his support of matrimony between same sex couples. ...
Read more ›BLACK WOMEN MAKE MAJOR EMPLOYMENT GAINS
Black women are making the most significant gains in employment but still lag behind Whites, according to the Labor Department. The most recent jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show ...
Read more ›THE PEOPLE’S CLINIC, ”CHILDHOOD DEPRESSION”
In The People's Clinic articles, we often discuss physical and mental health concerns that affect adults, but sometimes we as a community forget that some of these issues can affect children as well. ...
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