Black Health

From BVBlackSpin.com: First Lady Michelle Obama is tackling childhood obesity with the launch of the nationwide Let’s Move campaign and its new enhanced website.

From WSJ.com: In a significant step toward an AIDS vaccine, U.S. government scientists have discovered three powerful antibodies, the strongest of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains, more than any AIDS antibody yet discovered. Looking closely at the strongest antibody, they have detailed exactly what part of the virus it targets and how it attacks […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Cigarette maker Lorillard Inc. is launching a campaign to defend menthol cigarettes amid a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel’s review of the minty smokes.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of Washington, D.C., schoolchildren scampered around the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday afternoon after first lady Michelle Obama announced a summer of activity designed to encourage kids to exercise.

From VisaliaTimesDelta.com: The close-knit siblings began to notice little things about their mother, Roberta Randolph.

From STLToday.com: KETTERING, Ohio — Bilal Momin watched as one family member after another succumbed to a genetic and degenerative kidney disease. In 2006, Momin, the associate minister of Freedom-Hill Baptist Church in Dayton, thought he was next.

From Reuters.com: The findings, based on data for nearly 475,000 VA patients, found that African Americans had lower rates of prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering statins, as well as ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers used to treat high blood pressure and certain heart problems.

March is Women’s Month so it is fitting that this news should alarm Black women everywhere. With all of the mounting odds against us, it is becoming more & more important for us to have regular pap smears, mammograms, and tests run for herpes and HPV. For younger Black women, get all the info you […]

LOS ANGELES — Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr. says he is being treated for prostate cancer.