In 2002, several days after Charlie W. Hill buried his wife Annase, who had succumbed to non-small cell lung cancer, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer....
PORTSMOUTH The number of Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease is expected to more than triple in the next few decades – from five million today to...
Black women were too busy chasing their own dreams to notice how heart disease had silently skyrocketed in 1988, the year that balloons and confetti streamed...
(Reprinted From The Jacksonville Press) Many veterans know about the basic health care and education benefits available to them through the Department of Veterans Affairs: Tricare and the GI...
For the thousands of individuals who suffer from the effects of sickle cell anemia, pain is a common part of their lives. The inherited disease causes ...
After a week’s recess, the U.S. Senate returns to work this week and Republican leaders still have not cleared a path toward repealing and replacing the Affordable...
Indiana Republicans invited Americans to share “Obamacare horror stories” on social media and the ploy backfired. Thousands of respondents – more than 8,000 on Facebook alone...
Virginia Beach is one of 13 cities across the country that will showcase the Henrietta Lacks exhibit in upcoming weeks. More than 200 leaders attended the...
Can men get breast cancer? Yes. Although breast cancer is a disease usually associated with women, men get it too. Because male breast cancer is rare,...
Occasionally in the course of a news reporter’s career, their personal lives intersect with one of endless aspects of life we are tasked with writing for...