The racial gap for breast cancer deaths is closing, particularly among younger women, U.S. health officials reported ... Read More
Health Disparities
Why Are More Black Women Dying From COPD?
Fewer Americans are dying from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but not black women and the middle-aged, a new ... Read More
CDC Warns: Improper Use Of Contacts Can Cause Serious Eye Damage
Unsafe use of contact lenses -- such as sleeping with them in place or using the same pair for too long -- is triggering serious ... Read More
CDC: Pregnant Women Could Contract Zika From Male Or Female Sex Partners
U.S. health officials on Monday updated their Zika virus guidelines, saying that pregnant women could contract Zika from a sex ... Read More
Is It Zika? Know The Signs
A disease spread through mosquito bites, it’s no wonder Zika virus is on everyone’s watch list, as they trek and travel across the globe ... Read More
Congenital Syphilis: A Preventable STD On The Rise In Newborns
April is STD Awareness Month. There is much we can do together to help prevent STDs, and I encourage you to take a look at all of the ... Read More
Prescription Painkillers For Chronic Pain Get Stricter Guidelines From CDC
Hoping to stem an epidemic of drug abuse tied to prescription narcotic painkillers such as Oxycontin, Percocet and Vicodin, ... 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
CDC Confirms Tragic Outcomes For 5 Of 9 Pregnant U.S. Women With Zika
Five of nine pregnancies among U.S. women who were infected with the Zika virus have resulted in tragic outcomes, federal health officials ... Read More
CDC Says Report That Half Of Gay Black Men May Be Diagnosed With HIV Is “A Call To Action”
If current HIV rates continue, about half of gay and bisexual black men in the United States will be diagnosed with the AIDS-causing virus ... Read More
Blacks With HIV Still Less Likely To Get Treatment – But Why?
While HIV diagnoses dropped significantly over the past decade in the United States, blacks with HIV are less likely than whites or ... Read More
Condom Use Declining Among MSM, CDC Reports
Men who have sex with men (MSM) continues to be a common route of HIV transmission in the U.S. among adults and adolescents, accounting for ... Read More