Blood sugar levels play a major role in managing type-2 diabetes and exercise is one of the most important ways to maintain ... Read More
Health Conditions
UPDATE: Four-Year-Old Girl Suffers Brain Damage After Going To Dentist
A four-year-old girl can no longer walk, talk, eat or see after a trip to the dentist to have a tooth removed. UPDATE as of July 25, 2017 ... Read More
#WeSeeYou: Woman Collapsed But How She Bounced Back Inspires A Nation
Obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure are often fast friends of each other. Dawnjay found out that the hard way when she passed out at ... Read More
How To Help Your Loved One Recover From An Eating Disorder
When we dismiss an issue that is affecting the Black community as a “white problem,”we lose the opportunity to dissect and gain power over ... Read More
4 Ways To Stay Positive With Diabetes
It’s an emotional blow when the doctor reveals your diabetes diagnosis. You’re not alone. Diabetes is a disease plaguing more than 29 ... Read More
Stress Caused By Daily Discrimination Linked To Health Problems
Nearly seven in 10 Americans experience some form of discrimination, and that discrimination can contribute to higher stress ... Read More
It’s Time We Change The Way We Talk To Young Women About HIV/AIDS
Young women and adolescent girls are at the greatest risk for HIV and AIDS worldwide. In the U.S., this fact is an important one. ... Read More
#BlackGirlHealing: “By Varying Lengths Of Thread I Continued To Hang On”
Growing up, I saw the image of women being not only backbones, but essentially feeling an obligation to be the proverbial martyr ... Read More
#BlackGirlHealing: “The Very Thing I Wanted To Get Rid Of Became My Buffer From The World”
“It isn’t a matter of ‘if’ you will get diabetes, but ‘when’ you will develop it.” That statement made me so angry, how dare that doctor, ... Read More
#BlackGirlHealing: “I Have Been Afraid That Stress Will Kill Me”
When I was 35 years old, my father dropped dead of a massive coronary in his kitchen. At 39 years old, my doctor looked at me over the rim ... Read More
Our Girls Matter: Making Progress Against HIV Among Girls & Women
Flash back to the early years of the HIV epidemic, a small clinic in any city, USA. A young woman sits quietly in a cramped office waiting ... Read More
My Story: “HIV Is My Roommate”
People LOVE to say, "Oh she is living with HIV." Correction: HIV is living with me. If I were living with HIV, I would live my life by HIV's ... Read More