What it is and How it Affects African-Americans ...

By Glenn Ellis (TriceEdneyWire.com) - It's a question that puzzles lots of folks when those familiar symptoms hit: Is all that coughing and sneezing from a cold or hay fever? With so many similar symptoms, from sneezing to a runny nose, it’s easy to understand why many people find it hard to distinguish between the common cold and hayfever especially at this time of year. Most people know that sneezing, run ...

Mental health or mental illness is rarely discussed within the black community. In the black community, mental illness is thought of as a “white person’s disease” it is nothing that affects black people. ...

Pfizer, NNPA, and Howard University Collaborate to Improve Public Education and Awareness ...

"If the diabetes rate had held steady at its 2008 level rather than increased, 2.5 million fewer U.S. adults would have the disease today." ...

By Glenn Ellis (TriceEdneyWire.com) - Are you wondering why you’re still smoking cigarettes? Unless you enjoy the taste of more than 7,000 harmful chemicals entering your body with each puff. And of those 7,000 chemicals, 69 of them are known to be cancer-causing (carcinogenic). But let’s be honest, you probably already knew that after being exposed to No Smoking ads everywhere you look. So I’ll save the le ...

The reason for the fuss is that the world is facing a public health crisis because resistance to antibiotics is on the rise. ...

A heart attack can occur when the flow of blood and oxygen to a section of the heart becomes blocked. ...

Unfortunately, Flint’s water scandal is a symptom of a much larger disease. ...

Inmates have high rates of chronic medical conditions, especially viral infections. In addition, substance abuse and mental illness are common among inmates. ...