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CHICAGO — Good news: Sex is safe for most heart patients. If you’re healthy enough to walk up two flights of stairs without chest pain or gasping for breath, you can have a love life.
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That advice from a leading doctors’ group on Thursday addresses one of the most pressing, least discussed issues facing survivors of heart attacks
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Check-ups during pregnancy tend to focus around the waist. But there’s growing debate about which mothers-to-be should have a gland in their neck tested, too.
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Numerous studies since 1999 have found that an underactive thyroid can raise a woman’s risk of miscarriage, premature birth, or a lower IQ for her baby – even if it’s so mildly sluggish that she feels no
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On Tuesday, TMZ reported the results of the autopsy done on legendary rapper Heavy D. Only a short time before his death I sat with my kids watching him on the BET Awards. I told my son how important he was to hip-hop. My wife told my daughter how much we used to dance to his music “back in the day.” Not long after, he passed. Our whole household was confused.
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The former CBS ’60 Minute” correspondent’s condition is revealed after his recent surgery.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — No major medical group recommends routine PSA blood tests to check men for prostate cancer, and now a government panel is saying they do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive the tests as part of routine cancer screening.
The panel’s guidelines had long advised men over 75 to forgo the tests and the new recommendation extends that do-not-screen advice to healthy men of all
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Catch the preview of the OWN Network Season 2 premiere of “Ask Oprah’s All Stars” with Gayle King, Dr. Phil, Suze Orman and Dr. Oz.
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A ten-year-old Black chef is spreading healthy eating to his peers. After watching his friends not eating right at school, Chazz Darby decided to do something about it.
Darby, with the help of his mom Dorette Darby, created ”My Own Food” interactive cooking for children of all ages with adult supervision.
With meals like heavenly banana wrap and island cucumber punch, Darby designed meals that kids can tackle on their own.
The Grio reports:
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Despite African-Americans being one of the highest groups in the United States at risk of contracting HIV, Black physicians still find it hard to recommend HIV tests to their patients, a new study reports.
According to the study, Black physicians are embarrassed to address the social stigmas that Blacks bring into the office of the disease, so they often refrain from addressing the realities and the impact that HIV and
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The skyrocketing unemployment rate in the African-American community (16.2 percent) is compelling Black Americans to sacrifice healthy eating, for cheap, caloric foods.
Nearly 4.5 million Americans are eating less-healthy foods due to a diminished spending power, and desire to conserve money. For African-Americans, who suffer from the greatest economic strains, the numbers could be catastrophic.
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Join #TeamBuzz at this year’s Relay for Life of the Soul at Withrow High School stadium on June 17-18th. Can’t make it? Donation details available inside.
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