Are you depressed? Scents might help, new study says
Newswise — Smelling a familiar scent can help depressed individuals recall specific autobiographical memories and potentially assist in their recovery, discovered a team of...
Empowering Black Americans to Learn Life-Saving Skills
(Family Features) In the spirit of Black History Month, you can empower yourself, educate others and elevate your community's heart health by becoming a...
Women and minorities bear the brunt of medical misdiagnosis
By LIZ SZABO FOR KFF HEALTH NEWS/ublished by theGrio
Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born.
At...
Rise of the Tripledemic
By Cedars-Sinai
Newswise — (LOS ANGELES) As the new year kicks into full swing, so has a trio of respiratory viruses, creating a so-called tripledemic....
Millennial women are making more money. They’re also facing bigger health threats.
By Jennifer Gerson/Originally published by The 19th
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A new report from the Population...
Black patients less likely to receive lifesaving stroke treatments
By Leigh Hataway/University of Georgia
Newswise — Almost 800,000 Americans suffer a stroke each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
African Americans...
Black Individuals More Likely to Experience Inequities in Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme...
By Johns Hopkins Medicine
Newswise — A new study out of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Lyme Disease Research Center has revealed disparities in the diagnosis...
More Than Just Joy and Laughter, Tips For Navigating The Hard Parts Of The...
By Hackensack Meridian Health
(Newswise)--On TV, the rituals of the holidays–shopping, decorating, cooking and gathering with family–are carried out with cheer. Relationships and festivities are...
Black Patients With Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Received Worse and Less Timely Care Than White...
Newswise — ATLANTA — In a new, large national hospital-based study, researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS), found individuals racialized as Black in...
At the same PSA level, Black men are more likely to have prostate cancer...
Newswise — Black men in the United States are more likely to develop prostate cancer than white men, and after diagnosis, they’re more likely...
