
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...

In 2007, Chesapeake writer Brenda Anderson wrote a thoughtful, 117-page, self-help book about her grandmother who died in 2006 at age 93 of colon cancer. After...
MISSION VIEJO, CA “Silence is one of the most deadly aspects of women’s heart disease,” says Dr. Jacqueline Eubany, board-certified cardiologist and electrophysiologist. Having devoted her...
For thirty days from May 27 and until June 24, Imam Vernon Fareed and other Muslims are observing Ramadan. The 30-period of personal deprivation and rereading of...

African-Americans age 65 and older are dying at a slower rate than whites of the same age, according to a new report by the Centers for...

Kenita Jackson proudly wears the white coat she earned at Eastern Virginia Medical School. A newly trained surgical assistant, she helps surgeons in the operating...

The National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, defines a cerebral aneurysm as, “A weak or thin spot on a blood vessel in the brain...
A growing stack of reports on health-care disparities may explain why a patient with a toothache sat in the parking lot waiting to see a dentist...

HAMPTON ROADS More than 150 guests attended the International Black Women’s Congress 14th Annual Organ Donation Awareness Gala at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott on April 8,...
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