Black Male Children Have Highest Rates of Food Allergies

It has been found that children, males and Blacks, have the highest rates of food allergies in the United States, and the risk is.......more

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Results from a national clinical trial show that, although women do about the same as men when taking a Food and Drug Administration approved medication used for the treatment of HIV, Read more....

Poor Pregnant Women at Higher Risk for Diabetes

According to the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, pregnant women negotiating the rocky landscape of poverty tend to gain weight and endure more medical complications, particularly gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) than those who are better off financially. More

New Study: African Americans More Likely Than any Other Race to Develop Alzheimer's Disease

According to a new study released by the Alzheimer's Association, African Americans and Hispanics are at a higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease, but most shocking is the fact that blacks are more likely than any other race to develop the degenerative disease.
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The Guatemala Syphilis Experiement's Tuskegee Roots

Recent revelations that the U. S. Government knowingly infected Central Americans with syphilis in the 1940's have eerie echoes to the infamous 40 year experiment with 400 infected black men in Macon County, Alabama. More

Black Male Children Have Highest Rates of Food Allergies

Children, males and blacks have the highest rates of food allergies in the United States, and the risk is 4.4 times higher among male black children than in the general population, a new study finds. Read more