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Georgetown’s leading scorer Austin Freeman has been diagnosed with diabetes, leaving his status uncertain for the team’s upcoming games. Freeman returned to practice Wednesday and Thursday after missing Monday night’s loss to West Virginia. He was also limited in Saturday’s loss to Notre Dame. Originally thought to have a stomach virus, Freeman learned he had
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The wide racial gap in health is growing in Chicago, a major new study has found. Already lagging far behind whites on most key measures of health, blacks in Chicago have fallen even further behind in 11 of 15 areas reviewed by Chicago’s Sinai Urban Health Institute between 1990 and 2005 — including infant mortality,
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The District’s Health Department is under fire; accused of going too far to try to track down the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Some medical professionals and patients say the questions being asked by health department investigators of those who test positive are offensive and amount to badgering. A man, who wants to be known
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Michael Jackson’s arms were covered with punctures, his face and neck were scarred and he had tattooed eyebrows and lips, but he wasn’t the sickly skeleton of a man portrayed by tabloids, according to his autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press. In fact, the Los Angeles County coroner’s report shows Jackson was a fairly
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With health care on the minds of Americans across the nation, Michelle Obama is continuing her efforts to make healthy food choices a priority amongst Americans. The First Lady celebrated with a crowd of several hundred people who braved the rain for the opening of the Freshfarm Farmers’ Market Thursday in Washington, D.C., a market
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September is officially “National Prostate Cancer Awareness” month and African-American women are being asked to encourage their fathers, brothers, husbands and even sons to go to the doctor and get tested. Black men are much more likely to get the disease and die from it than any other ethnic group, according to NBCNews.com. Researchers are
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Many women have complained that men look at their breasts instead of their eyes when they meet, and a new study seems to have proved them right. Researchers from New Zealand’s University of Wellington found that just under half — 47 percent — of men first look at a woman’s chest when they first meet,
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Tony Wafford, director of health and wellness for Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network is the keynote speaker today at the “Sistahs Getting Real About HIV/AIDS,” a daylong conference on Black women and disease prevention organized by the Oakland chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women from 10:00 AM to 7:00PM, according to
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Nearly 36 percent of black Americans are obese — much more than other major racial or ethnic groups — and that gap exists in most states, a new federal study finds. About 29 percent of Hispanics and 24 percent of whites are obese, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Racial differences in obesity
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