Although cervical cancer is a preventable and highly curable disease, a new report released by Human Rights Watch reveals that Black women in Alabama are dying of this cancer at more than twice the national average, reports The Guardian. Cervical cancer was once a major cause of death for American women, but the advent of… Read More »
Most people with HIV-2 infection with progress to AIDS and death unless they receive antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to the results of a study conducted in Guinea-Bissau and published in The Lancet HIV. HIV-2 infection has been considered more benign than HIV-1 infection, and it had been thought that many people would have a normal… Read More »
Image The rate of sudden cardiac death in African-Americans is twice as high as in whites, and no one knows why. Sudden cardiac death is an unexpected fatality from cardiac causes that happens within an hour of the onset of symptoms, usually with no known cause. For more than six years, researchers followed 9,416 blacks… Read More »
Flu season is coming and flu shot season is here. I teach in a journalism institute, and when I was doing my stint as director, welcoming the new graduate students in the fall, I always used to urge they get flu shots: You’ll be wandering all over the city, I would tell them, you’ll be… Read More »
The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome commonly known as SIDS is an infant’s death within one year after birth. For such death to be considered as SIDS, its causes normally remain unexplained even after intensive investigations that include complete autopsy, scene examination as well as review of parent’s or the infant’s clinical history. Historically, the use… Read More »
Sleep apnea looks like something you can never recover from but it’s readily explained as a interruption in respiration while a person is asleep. There are distinct levels of sleep apnea condition as well as other contributing factors that can cause a sudden ceasation in breathing while sleeping. In order to throw some light on… Read More »
Mother charged in drug death of girl, 2 The county Coroner's Office found that Trinity died of drug intoxication. Steele said toxicology tests showed that the girl had Subutex, a medication to treat narcotic addiction, and Klonopin, an antianxiety medication, in her system. Griffith was … Read more on Philly.com Just Saying Yes to the… Read More »