Women’s Health
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Mammograms can be scary if you don’t understand the process. When? Where? How often? What about Black women, who are not only more susceptible to developing breast cancer at earlier ages, but are also at a higher risk of having malignant tumors misdiagnosed…or diagnosed much later? ASTHMA: Know The […]
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently sat down with TLC’s Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins to discuss her struggle with sickle cell anemia and her recent brain tumor. Since childhood, she suffered from sickle cell anemia and was told that she wouldn’t live past 30. Told that she wouldn’t be able to have children and would be disabled, […]
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently sat down with TLC’s Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins to discuss her struggle with sickle cell anemia and her recent brain tumor. Since childhood, she suffered from sickle cell anemia and was told that she wouldn’t live past 30. Told that she wouldn’t be able to have children and would be disabled, […]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and according to BlackDoctor.org “African-American females experience higher death rates from breast cancer than any other racial or ethnic group.” This is partially due to African-American women tending to have more aggressive tumors. The fact is not meant to scare you, but it is meant as a wake up […]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and according to BlackDoctor.org “African-American females experience higher death rates from breast cancer than any other racial or ethnic group.” This is partially due to African-American women tending to have more aggressive tumors. The fact is not meant to scare you, but it is meant as a wake up […]
Comedienne Wanda Sykes has opened up for the first time about her secret breast cancer battle. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star revealed all about her health crisis in a taped interview with pal Ellen DeGeneres, which will air on her daytime talk show on Monday. Sykes told the host she underwent a double mastectomy after […]
Comedienne Wanda Sykes has opened up for the first time about her secret breast cancer battle. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star revealed all about her health crisis in a taped interview with pal Ellen DeGeneres, which will air on her daytime talk show on Monday. Sykes told the host she underwent a double mastectomy after […]
As evident from her Sunday appearance on the popular Bravo late night talk show ‘Watch What Happens: Live,’ actress Regina King definitely has it going on. A great physique. A chic pixie ‘do. Glowing skin. A thriving Hollywood career. Yep, to look at the ‘Southland’ star – who turns 40 on Saturday – you’d never […]
Two hours or more per week of vigorous exercise, such as aerobics and running, reduced breast cancer risks in postmenopausal Black women by 64 percent, according to researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among […]
Two hours or more per week of vigorous exercise, such as aerobics and running, reduced breast cancer risks in postmenopausal Black women by 64 percent, according to researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among […]
VIA: HealthyWomen.Org As a single, busy woman living in New York City, sick wasn’t a part of my vocabulary when I entered the last year of my 20s. Nonetheless, it soon found its way into my life. It began with a swollen toe joint, which I easily dismissed as a yoga injury. But when the […]
VIA: HealthyWomen.Org As a single, busy woman living in New York City, sick wasn’t a part of my vocabulary when I entered the last year of my 20s. Nonetheless, it soon found its way into my life. It began with a swollen toe joint, which I easily dismissed as a yoga injury. But when the […]