Dental X-rays may help dentists collect essential information about oral health, but a new study is raising questions about their safety. The new research links regular dental imaging to one of…
Last weekend on March 18, 2012, Fabrice Muamba, the Bolton football star suffered a cardiac arrest during a FA Cup game in England. Thanks to the early intervention of first…
Beatrice didn’t want us to take her picture. Neither did she want me to use her real name. Most of her friends and family don’t even know she’s HIV positive…
Many patients die in hospitals due to the lack of blood. Michèle Akono’s niece has sickle-cell disease. The three-year-old girl was admitted at the Yaoundé Central Hospital and in urgent…
New research says early doses of antiretrovirals can reduce HIV contagiousness. The fight for global access to anti-Aids drugs has been given added urgency. A research study of more than 1,700…
Hair is big thing with black women- and women in general. And that’s why hair loss can become a very traumatic experience for a woman. Sometimes the hair loss is…
Oudtshoorn — Research on HIV/AIDS is on the rise in South Africa, a country with the largest number of HIV infections in the world, while Western research efforts have levelled…
Maybe you bought that pregnancy test (or maybe 3 or 4), and with much trepidation, you wait those excruciating 10 minutes to see if your morning pee will bring forth…
You might expect that a new study out of Sweden of roughly a million women, suggesting a 26 percent mortality reduction with routine mammography in women in their 40s, would…
A heavy rear can guarantee your chances of living longer, says a new study. This means that Jennifer Lopez, Nigella Lawson and Beyonce as well as other curvy women are in…