Even with access to health care, African-American women are less likely to receive the vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV), which reduces the risk for cervical cancer, according to a study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The findings, published today in the...
As a brand new year gets underway, people all over America are resolving to better manage their weight and have a more healthy 2012. According to a new study, those starting new weight loss programs may be surprised to find out that both location and level of experience may influence their...
African American women who develop gestational diabetes mellitus during pregnancy face a 52 percent increased risk of developing diabetes in the future compared to white women who develop GDM during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the journal Diabetologia...
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, and explain the ways in which they attempted to achieve their goals. To what extent were they successful, and where did they fail? Why?
Vigorous exercise of more than two hours per week reduces the risk of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal African-American women by 64 percent, compared to women of the same race who do not exercise, according to researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Results were...
in Africa today? African-Americans love to dwell in the past about white-on-black slavery in America hundreds of years ago...but why aren't they as passionate about criticizing the black-on-black slavery that exists in Africa TODAY?!?
BlackKnight: YOU are the ignorant one...
for example Kobe Bryant,Michael Vick and LL Cool j? Do they need chap stick? Can you imagine being the director that has to work with LL on NCIS: Los Angeles? It would be like: CUT! LL,for the ten thousandth time there is no lip licking in this scene!!!
UroToday.com - A report from the Department of Psychiatry, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center suggests that African-American (AA) men with prostate cancer (CaP) have a sense of greater emotional well being and lower incidence of clinically significant depressive symptoms compared with...
...nutrition? I am a returning student with a natural interest in human dietetics/sport nutrition and exercise science. Since African-Americans are often underrepresented in the fields of science and health/wellness are there any specific scholarships/grants to offset the cost of my education...