Posted in Health on Mar 12th, 2010
Dear Friends and Family,
I will be participating in the Baltimore Take Steps Crohn’s & Colitis Walk on June 5, 2010. By forming a team, I have made a bold commitment to making a difference in the lives of those like myself suffering from digestive diseases. Please support my efforts by joining my team.
Posted in Health on Mar 10th, 2010
The Center For Disease Control has released alarming new test results that claim 48% of Black women between ages 14 and 49 have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), a lifelong and incurable infection that can cause recurrent and painful genital sores
Posted in Health on Feb 14th, 2010
- Poets, novelists and songwriters have described it in countless turns of phrase, but at the level of biology, love is all about chemicals.
Posted in Health on Feb 10th, 2010
Louis Gossett Jr,. the acclaimed actor announced yesterday that he’s being treated for prostate cancer
In his announcement the 73-year-old Oscar-winner says the disease was caught early and he expects to make a full recovery.
Posted in Health on Nov 30th, 2009
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that nearly half of the more than 1 million Americans living with HIV/AIDS are African- American and that 40 percent of the nearly 563,000 Americans with AIDS who died in 2007 were black.
Among all women in the United States living with HIV/AIDS, 64 percent are [...]
Posted in Health on Nov 24th, 2009
A Belgian car crash victim who was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state for 23 years was conscious the whole time, it has emerged.
Rom Houben was 23 at the time of his accident, but tests carried out by Dr. Laureys of the University of Liege, in Belgium, revealed that although Houben was believed to [...]
Posted in Health on Nov 20th, 2009
Procter & Gamble is recalling Vicks Sinex nasal spray in the United States, Britain and Germany after finding it contained bacteria, the company said.
Procter & Gamble said it announced the voluntary recall after finding the bacteria in a small amount of product made at a plant in Germany.
Posted in Health on Nov 16th, 2009
Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis are continuing to spread in the United States, Reuters reported. Nineteen million new sexually transmitted infections occur each year, almost half among 15- to 24-year-olds. Syphilis cases rose 18 percent from 2007 to 2008, with 63 percent of cases involving gay men.
Posted in Health on Nov 15th, 2009
A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin — drugs that are still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.
In the study, Zetia failed to shrink buildups in artery walls while a rival drug, Niaspan, did so significantly. Zetia users [...]
Posted in Health on Nov 13th, 2009
Estimates of deaths caused by the swine flu have grown to nearly 4,000 since April, roughly quadrupling previous estimates. But that doesn’t mean swine flu suddenly has worsened.
Instead, the federal numbers made public Thursday reflect a long-awaited better attempt to quantify the new flu’s true toll. Most cases still don’t require a doctor’s care.
Posted in Health on Nov 4th, 2009
She’s dropped 30 lbs. and is doing a while show about it….despite saying she was proud of her thicker body and she wanted to hold it down for all the “real women” out there. On her show today:
Tyra, who admits to being sent jeans that don’t fit their previous owner and even a prepaid cell [...]
Posted in Health on Oct 30th, 2009
Now that he’s finally in the body he always felt he belonged in, Chaz Bono said he’s enjoying something that took decades to accomplish.
“It’s a long process going back almost a decade,” Bono, formerly known as Chastity, told, Entertainment Tonight in an interview airing Thursday and Friday. “I got clean and sober in 2004 and [...]
Posted in Health on Oct 27th, 2009
A French study finding that people with Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes have less memory loss than those without diabetes should be regarded with caution, American experts say.
“It’s not clear from this study and others what the relationship is,” said William Thies, chief medical and scientific officer of the Alzheimer’s Association.
Posted in Health on Oct 22nd, 2009
Nearly two weeks after a purification program led to three deaths, the self-help guru who brought 50 clients into a sweat lodge in Arizona has expressed sorrow but will continue with his work.
“I feel your pain. I accept your anger. And I pray for you all to have some measure of peace and comfort,” James [...]
Posted in Health on Oct 18th, 2009
As the swine flu outbreak strikes the U.S. early and hard, health officials note a worrisome number of child deaths and warn that supplies of vaccine will remain scarce for at least the next couple of weeks.
Delays in producing the vaccine mean 28 million to 30 million doses, at most, will be divided around the [...]
