Over the years, several Black celebrities and public figures have stared cancer in the face, overcome the odds, and emerged victorious in their battle. These seven Black celebrities have opened up about their breast cancer journeys. Their stories are different, but they share one important message: cancer is not always a death sentence.
Twice a year. One shot in the stomach. That is what it now takes to bring a person’s risk of catching HIV down to almost nothing.
Taking charge of your health, and your family’s health, has always been an act of community care. This year, that act comes with more real options on the table than we’ve ever had.
Source: The Conversation Africa Pancreatic cancer is among the deadliest types of cancer. It is one of those diseases that…
Did you know that the human body is roughly 65% water? Additionally, we lose water daily through sweating, exhaling and going to the bathroom. We must consistently replenish or else dehydration and its complications may set in.
Ebony McGee, who studies how racism affects Black students in STEM, has spent years hearing students describe feeling excluded and unseen on their campuses, a condition that itself drives up their stress load before a single midterm is assigned. Students of color often feel excluded and ignored, and those feelings contribute to their heightened stress
When conversations turn to Ebola, most people immediately think of the devastating West African epidemic of 2014–2016, which claimed thousands of lives and exposed serious weaknesses in healthcare systems across the continent. Yet Ebola is not a single virus. It consists of several species, each with unique characteristics and varying fatality rates.
Grades one through twelve in the School District of Philadelphia go back on August 24, and by the second week, a familiar arithmetic will start showing up in group chats and church bulletins across the city: how many degrees outside, how many schools sent home early, whose building made the list this time.
This is the season when family reunions fill church parking lots, when block parties spill onto Girard Avenue and Ridge, when cousins who have not seen each other since last August reach for the same serving spoon their aunt has used since before they were born. It is also this year the season in which Pennsylvania was added to the list of states caught up in a multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a detail that turns an abstract public health notice into something much closer to home.
Hepatitis remains one of the world’s most persistent public health threats, silently affecting hundreds of millions of people and claiming more than one million lives each year. Often described as the “silent epidemic,” the disease can remain undetected for years while steadily causing irreversible damage to the liver.
