Category: Health/Nutrition
Is Unconscious Racism as a Killer?
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A new study by a Congressional research institute suggests that the race gap in medicine may be a serious issue because unconscious racism among doctors could be a cause of death among Blacks – even when their incomes...
Is Black-Only Good Science?
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A recent decision by the Federal Drug Administration to approve a prescription drug for self-identified Blacks has been met with mixed reviews. While some established medical organizations approve of the drug’s use, ...
Is Race Medicine Good Medicine?
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A racially-targeted drug that reduces death from heart disease among African-Americans has stirred a controversy that questions the effectiveness of the drug. However, this race-based medicine has arrived in a society...
Is Cleanliness Next To Good Health?
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Scientist Ken Seaton believes that statistics showing an increase in the disparities between the health of the affluent and the poor, such as life expectancy, cancer and diabetes, are due largely to hygiene. He says ...
Selenium & Vitamin E in Prostate Cancer Treatment
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The National Institutes of Health and a network of researchers have launched the largest prostate cancer prevention study ever to determine whether dietary supplements – Selenium and Vitamin E – can protect against pr...
A Health Explorer
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Dr. Allen Counter, a Harvard neuroscientist, combines his anthropological and medical interests to combat the health problems of isolated indigenous groups: descendants of Matthew Henson and Admiral Perry in Greenland...
An Outrageous Program To Cure All Diseases
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Would you go to the dentist to improve the condition of your prostate or to grow scalp hair? Is good health as simple as getting rid of parasites in your body and changing your environment? This program continues its ...
Stockpiling Black Genes
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Howard University, a historically Black institution in Washington, D.C., plans to create the largest repository of DNA from 25,000 African-Americans in order to reduce or eradicate the many diseases that plague the Bl...
