medicine

"Black Women In Medicine" was a five-year effort that began in 2011. But Crystal Emery asserts the film was not created to lament about the lack of diversity in the field, but to do do something much more boundless.

A new study reveals Black children are getting far less medication than White children upon admission into hospitals.

A family is mourning the loss of 45-year-old Simone Jones, who died during a plastic surgery procedure in New York last month. The family is seeking…

A surgical team is pleased to announce the first successful penis transplant in South Africa, BBC News reports. The operation took place in December 2014; the…

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If a research survey of African American professional women is any indication, attitudes may be changing towards participation in medical research. Mayo Clinic and The…

Georgia pediatrician Dr. Stephanie Kong and her practice Zoe Pediatric believe the battle against childhood obesity can be fought…and won. They believe in awareness and…

Wesley Warren Jr. had an household accident in May of 2008 that changed his life. Now, he just wants to earn a living and let people understand what he has been through. Speaking with Huffpost Live about the mishap he said, “I woke up the next day, and my scrotum was the size of a […]

Dr. Sanjay Gupta has figured out what a lot of people know already – smoking weed can be a good thing. Yes, Dr. Gupta says…

Indiana’s first African-American physician is being honored on Tuesday, more than a century after his death, with a commemorative grave marker. The unmarked grave that is believed to belong to Dr. Samuel A. Elbert, a physician who faced racial barriers attaining his medical degree at the Medical College of Indiana, will finally be turned into a headstone […]

An 11-year-old Italian girl suffered from hot flashes after taking herbal medicine for her thinning hair. The medicine is called saw palmetto, it’s commonly used by men treating enlarged prostates and sometimes used for balding in adult men. Read More Here (Source: Black America Web)

A recent study shows that when suffering from stroke- like symptoms, African Americans are more likely to call a friend instead of 911. Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington D.C. interviewed 100 acute stroke patients or those who accompanied them to the hospital and found that 75 percent said they called someone else […]