Health

NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Chaplain Debbie Walker, BSN, RN, OCN, Texas Metro News Contributor – Consider for a moment who on your street, in your building, in your family, in your circles are disadvantaged by […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE —By Dr. Lucille Ridgill – One major reason Black people suffer disproportionately from Alzheimer’s is we are underrepresented in dementia research, in part because many of us are unwilling to donate our brains […]

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon – It’s not just the ‘quarantine 15.’ With so much social and economic turmoil and uncertainty, many of us are stress eating. Take back your health with this plan. You’ve worked hard to […]

By Stacy M. Brown- NNPA Newswire- As more corporations jump into the fray, offering statements of support for African Americans in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, a […]

By Michael Wayland- Black Americans are disproportionately getting sick and dying from the coronavirus. It’s a plague that has laid bare, not just vulnerabilities in the U.S. hospital system, but gaping disparities in access to […]

Written by Maria Cohut Ph.D.  – Women who are black or of ethnic minorities made up more than half of pregnant women admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 in the U.K. – A recent analysis of […]

NNPA By Stacy M. Brown – In a CNN interview, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar attributed the high coronavirus death rate to unhealthy African Americans. Azar claimed that Black and minority communities have […]

Interruptions to the supply chain from the COVID-19 pandemic have limited supplies of essential gear for doctors and nurses, but some entrepreneurs and makers and turned to new technologies to fill the gap. Shortages this […]

By Dr. Kevin Williams, the Chief Medical Officer for Rare Disease at Pfizer – The “Ask Dr. Kevin” series is brought to you by Pfizer Rare Disease in collaboration with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) […]