Black men and women are 75 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure by age 55, according to a new report in the Journal of...
Over 4,000 of the 100,000 people diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) live in Virginia. It’s a disease which causes the body’s normally soft round-shaped red...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Contributor After his own failed musical aspirations, Joseph Jackson helped launch his children to international stardom in the 1960s and...
By Dr. Glen Ellis TriceEdneyWire.com If well-done burgers or charred hotdogs are your thing, you might want to read this: Regularly consuming well-done or charred meat...
After four years of Republican resistance, the Virginia General Assembly voted May 30 to expand Medicaid eligibility to 400,000 low income residents to receive healthcare under...
When we think about our bodily health, we normally think of exercise and diet. These are important factors, but what may be the most important factor...
By definition, hemodialysis is pumping a patient’s blood through a filtration device to remove toxins that failing kidneys can no longer handle, and then pumping it...
The words can be misleading. The heart is a muscle that pumps blood to the other organs of the body, but “Heart Failure” (HF) doesn’t mean...
Since 1949, the month of May has been recognized as Mental Health Month. With African-Americans leading the country with troubling statistics in areas like unemployment, child...
In the wake of a newly appointed Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Ronny L. Jackson, and the firing of Secretary David Shulkans by President Trump in March...