Sickle cell occurs in about 1 in every 500 African-American births. About 2 million Americans, or 1 in ...

Do you know how to handle sickle cell emergencies? Can you recognize the symptoms of a sickle cell ...

Do you know someone whose life has been affected by an STD (sexually transmitted disease)? Odds are that ...

“You’re too pretty to have a disease,” declared the nurse in the emergency department (ED) dismissing Constance Benson’s ...

  AT&T* will help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) modernize its communications and reduce costs. ...

Today, youth bullying has become a major public health issue in America. Bullying, a form of youth violence, is ...

  The racial gap for breast cancer deaths is closing, particularly among younger women, U.S. health officials reported ...

  Fewer Americans are dying from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but not black women and the middle-aged, ...

  Unsafe use of contact lenses — such as sleeping with them in place or using the same ...

  U.S. health officials on Monday updated their Zika virus guidelines, saying that pregnant women could contract Zika ...

A disease spread through mosquito bites, it’s no wonder Zika virus is on everyone’s watch list, as they ...

April is STD Awareness Month. There is much we can do together to help prevent STDs, and I ...

  Hoping to stem an epidemic of drug abuse tied to prescription narcotic painkillers such as Oxycontin, Percocet ...

Flash back to the early years of the HIV epidemic, a small clinic in any city, USA.  A ...