US President Barack Obama on Monday named rural southern doctor Regina Benjamin as his pick to be the country’s surgeon general.
“I am honored and I am humbled to be nominated to serve… this is a physician’s dream,” the Alabama doctor said after being introduced by Obama in the White House Rose Garden as his choice [...]
Marriage and motherhood — it’s the dream that begins in childhood for many women. Yet more African-American women are deciding to adopt instead of waiting for a husband, says Mardie Caldwell, founder of Lifetime Adoption, an adoption referral and support group in Penn Valley, California.
“We’re seeing more and more single African-American women who are not [...]
Although the higher risk of prostate cancer for African-American men is well known in the medical community, it is not clear how prevalent this knowledge is among African-American men themselves. Both the side effects of treatment and the lack of a demonstrated mortality benefit of routine screening with the prostate-specific antigen test among men in [...]
Overweight and obese women being treated at an inner-city family-planning clinic apparently don’t assess their physical characteristics in quite the same way that medical professionals do. They tend to like their bodies.
In a study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, most overweight and obese women underestimated their body [...]
A Jacksonville researcher has developed a way of sewing up patients after hysterectomies that stands to reduce the risk of complications and simplify the tricky procedure for less-seasoned surgeons.
Oh, and he’s 14 years old.
Feel free to read that again.
Tony Hansberry II is a ninth-grader who, as it happens, will be presenting his findings today before [...]
One of the biggest problems with having children is the remarkable fact that they tend to be the source of parental stress.
Nearly one-fifth of American 4-year-olds are obese, and children of color are at higher risk, according to new research.
Researchers calculated the body mass index from a sample of 8,550 Hispanic, black, white, Asian and Native American 4-year-olds. The children were born in 2001, and in 2005, their height and weight were measured — 18.4 percent [...]
Eating out invariably raises a number of tricky questions: sit down or drive through? Burgers or pizza? Thin or stuffed crust? Choosing one over the other could mean saving hundreds of calories in a single meal, up to 50 pounds of flab in the course of a year, and countless health woes over the course [...]
First lady Michelle Obama helped break ground on a new White House organic “kitchen garden” Friday. It will be the first working garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. since Eleanor Roosevelt planted a so-called “victory garden” at the height of World War II.
This time, however, the enemy is obesity. The first family is hoping to send [...]
With the stroke of a pen, President Obama cleared the way Monday for the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies to fund research using all kinds of human embryonic stem cells.
“Scientists believe these tiny cells may have the potential to help us understand, and possibly cure, some of our most devastating diseases and [...]
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