Category: Health

University of Houston’s Dr. Lovell Jones Talks STEM in 2010 video

University of Houston’s Dr. Lovell Jones Talks STEM in 2010 video

Over the next few weeks I’ll be doing some work with the Intercultural Cancer Council, who is having their Biennial Symposium in Houston June 26-July 1.  The symposium will focus on Minorities, The Medically Underserved and Health Equity. I want to start by introducing you to Lovell Jones, PhD., founding...

CVS Encourages African Americans To Protect Themselves With A Flu Shot

CVS Encourages African Americans To Protect Themselves With A Flu Shot

Dallas South Wire This holiday season, CVS/pharmacy encourages African Americans to give the gift of good health to yourself, your family and your community by getting your seasonal flu shot.  African-Americans have lower influenza and pneumococcal immunization rates compared to the rest of the population and 67%percent of whites received...

Awareness of Lupus increases among women reported by the U.S. Ad Council

Awareness of Lupus increases among women reported by the U.S. Ad Council

DSN Newswire (Office of Public Health and Science Communications) Twenty-two percent of 18-44 year old women in the United States reported hearing more about lupus compared to a year ago, according to a national online survey released today by the Ad Council. In an effort to further engage minority women,...

Methodist Health System Joint Academy Offers Education to Speed Healing for Hips, Knees and Shoulders

Methodist Health System Joint Academy Offers Education to Speed Healing for Hips, Knees and Shoulders

Methodist Health System offers complete care for patients needing surgery to replace joints damaged by injury, deformity, or degenerative diseases

Statement from President Obama on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Statement from President Obama on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

From the Office of the President “Today we passed another critical milestone in the health reform effort with the release of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. I was particularly pleased to see that the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the bill will reduce the deficit by $127...

Healthcare Reform Videos

Healthcare Reform Videos

My mom forwarded some healthcare commercials that she received in her inbox and I thought a few of them were pretty good.  Wanted to share 3 of them with the fam. How to Tell You need Healthcare Reform Choose the Public Option Spin

White House Domestic Policy Advisor Melody Barnes on healtcare reform: The stakes for African Americans

White House Domestic Policy Advisor Melody Barnes on healtcare reform: The stakes for African Americans

Melody Barnes, White House Domestic Policy Advisory has a couple of entries worth noting in the Health Insurance Reform Debate. First, a few excerpts from an Op-Ed for AOL Black Voices: As with so many issues, if the state of our health care system is a crisis for America, it’s...

Press Release: Doctors Sue KFC Over Dangerous Carcinogen in New Grilled Chicken Products

Press Release: Doctors Sue KFC Over Dangerous Carcinogen in New Grilled Chicken Products

Laboratory Tests Show KFC Grilled Chicken Contains Cancer-Causing Substance; KFC Violating Law by Failing to Warn Consumers WASHINGTON—A national physicians group is suing Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) under California law for failing to warn consumers that the chain’s new grilled chicken product contains a dangerous carcinogen. Independent laboratory tests show...