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. ...

New cases of hepatitis C rose by 69 percent. ...

By Glenn Ellis (TriceEdneyWire.com) - Many chronic diseases are the result of the body's immune system mistakenly perceiving that the body is under attack from foreign bodies. A counterattack is then launched -- an inflammatory response meant to vanquish the intruder. In reality, the immune system has misinterpreted the threat and is actually attacking the body's own cells and tissue. Immune system disorder ...

“Fifty-percent of African-American physicians don’t feel fairly compensated,” the report’s editor Leslie Kane, a senior director of Medscape Business of Medicine, told CBS. ...