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Last spring, Miami Dolphins lineman Jonathan Martin (pictured) wrote his mother a tormented message. “I was sobbing in a rented yacht bathroom,” Martin wrote to his mother after he was bullied last spring, the Miami Herald reports. “I’m never gonna change,” continued Martin, who took time off from the team as a result of bullying. […]

According to the Center of Disease Control’s most recent report, Georgia ranks sixth in the country in reported AIDS cases. Now, a program aims to curtail the rates of infection using a variety of approaches towards African-American women who are diagnosed 12 times more than their White counterparts. SEE ALSO: Nationwide Study To Examine Why Black […]

Detroit rapper Danny Brown has become one of the darlings of Hip-Hop after toiling in the mixtape circuit for years. Now a legitimate force in the genre coupled with rapidly rising fame, Brown took to Twitter this week and expressed in a series of tweets his bouts with depression along with how he copes with […]

A settlement between the big three American tobacco companies and the federal government requires executives to produce an ad campaign that reveals the harmful health effects of tobacco use and admissions that representatives knowingly lied about its dangers. RELATED: Obama Praises CVS For Plans To Stop Selling Tobacco The campaign is supposed to run nationwide […]

Extreme loneliness over a long period can be worse for your health than obesity and could lead to an early death, especially among the elderly, according to a new study. John Cacioppo, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, says he found major differences in the rate of decline in physical and mental health between lonely […]

Not only do winter snowstorms wreak havoc on travel and transportation and upend lifestyle conditions, temperature drops can also be harmful to your health. A new study shows that weather conditions are among multiple factors that are associated with stroke hospitalizations and even death. RELATED: Winter Depression On The Rise “This study suggests that meteorological […]

Self-rated health—or, a person’s perception of their own health—has been shown to be a strong predictor of illness and even death. A new study in…

The onslaught of brutal weather battering certain parts of the nation over the past few weeks is beginning to take a toll on the health and well-being of some residents living through it, CBS Atlanta reports. SEE ALSO: Magic Johnson Sets Record Straight On His HIV Status From Texas to the Carolinas to Atlanta, the […]

Michael Ugwueke, DHA, FACHE, is Executive Vice President and COO of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare System in Memphis, TN. He is an accomplished healthcare executive…

The public health community has long attributed the increased risk of HIV infection among Black men who have sex with men to high-risk behavior. But researchers at the Center for Black Equity and the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health say the reason may not be so cut-and-dry and could have more to […]

Leandris Liburd, PhD, MPH, MA, serves as the Director for the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

N.Y. Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer is saying no thanks to the consumption of azodicarbonamide, a chemical found in yoga mats and shoe soles, that Subway — amid backlash — dropped from its sandwich bread, according to ABC News. RELATED:  Subway Promises To Remove Plastic Chemical Out of Sandwich Bread On Sunday, the veteran senator called on […]