- Local News

via Wkyc: Cleveland Cavs Owner Dan Gilbert has returned to his home in Detroit after an eight-week stint in a Chicago rehabilitation facility following a stroke he suffered on May 26. CLICK HERE to read full story    

Entertainment

via Getty Image/TMZ: John Singleton‘s stroke is way more serious than his family first revealed — it was a major stroke and he is in a coma —  and we’ve learned the family is in the process of establishing a conservatorship for him. TMZ broke the story … Singleton suffered a stroke last week after […]

Entertainment

via BlackAmericaWeb: “Boyz N the Hood” director John Singleton suffered a stroke last week and remains hospitalized, according to his family. Additional details, including his condition, were not immediately available. In a statement released Saturday, Singleton’s family announced that the 51-year-old filmmaker was in ICU and “under great medical care.” “On Wednesday, April 17th our beloved son/father, […]

Entertainment

    via eurweb: Unfortunately, these are not good times for 87-year-old Katherine Jackson, the matriarch of the world-famous Jackson family. She has suffered a stroke that left her struggling to speak or see, according to a RadarOnline report. A number of sources have confirmed that the mother of the late Michael Jackson has been having huge health […]

Family Health

via BlackDoctor: Jasmine Harris had a stroke six months before her high school graduation. It started with a headache a couple days before Christmas. The family from Raleigh, North Carolina, had spent the day volunteering so her mother, La’Wana Harris, assumed her 17-year-old daughter was just tired. But the headache didn’t go away after taking […]

Family Health

WHAT EXACTLY IS A STROKE? It is a neurological disease that occurs when an artery in the brain or going to brain gets clogged or breaks, this causes blood flow to an area of brain to be cut off. When this happens, brain cells are deprived of oxygen and begin to die. When brain cells […]

National

getty images: It was announced on getup with Erica Campbell this morning that comedian Rodney Perry had a stroke. Radio host Griff asked that the listeners pray for his healing.  At Joy105.com we will be praying for Rodney as well.  Rodney has been in numerous TV roles including Madea’s Big Happy Family and Off The […]

Men's Health

getty image: He was a fixture at just about every one of his daughter’s games. So it was different that Richard Williams, father of famed tennis superstars Venus and Serena, was not in the stands during his daughter’s Wimbledon championships this past weekend. Well, news just surfaced that the 74-year-old had suffered a stroke. According […]

National

After a life-threatening stroke from which it has been reported recovery is “unlikely,”TBN Co-Founder Jan Crouch is leaning on a familiar comforting scripture, an official TBN statement said late Saturday. “As she has throughout her entire life, Jan continues to place her trust in God, and draws strength from the promise of 2 Corinthians 1:3-4: […]

- Daily Praise

Evelyn Braxton, the mother of the famed Braxton quintet who appears on the series “Braxton Family Values,” is opening up on the WE tv reality television series about seeing angels after suffering from a stroke. On the season premiere of the show that aired Thursday, Evelyn, 68, told her youngest Grammy nominated daughter, Tamar, that […]

News One Exclusives

The sedentary habit has been linked to several health ailments, including heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Ivan Hernandez, doctor of physical therapy and fitness enthusiast, joined Roland Martin on NewsOne Now to discuss "Sitting Disease," who is being impacted by it, and how a sedentary lifestyle may be shaving years off your life.

Family Health

People at risk for heart disease are much more likely to die from a stroke if they don’t take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and blood pressure medications as prescribed, a new study reports. Folks with high blood pressure and high cholesterol had a seven times greater risk of suffering a fatal stroke if they didn’t follow […]