Overall rates at low, yet risks for blacks increase
Lack of access to quality healthcare and getting proper screenings is being attributed to blacks’…
Flexible spending account a viable option to cover healthcare costs
If your insurance provider is cutting back while you are forced to pay more, don’t…
CDC director urges community participation in prevention
Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB…
Summit to focus on prostate cancer awareness
The Prostate Health Education Network Inc. (PHEN), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase…
Insurance coverage disparity linked to heightened mortality
There aren’t any studies that prove that African Americans, when diagnosed with cancer, carry a…
Get top-of-the-line services without the luxury budget
Critics say concierge medical services only go further in widening the gap in access to…
Menthol cigarette issue smokes out Congressional Black Caucus
Before the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act…
The leading medical practitioners of treatment of mental health issues including depression, eating disorders and substance abuse
Mental health remains a critical issue in America. A recent study funded by the National…
Benjamin Carson Sr. given the highest civilian honor in the nation
Even receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian honor in the nation—didn’t go to…
Philanthropic organization aims to end extreme global poverty
It’s a promise being made to a part of the world where life and death…
