Health & Lifestyle

  • African Americans to be main focus of vitamin study

    African Americans to be main focus of vitamin study

    By theGrio

    1:25 PM on 06/23/2009

    African Americans will be a main focus in a large, government-sponsored study of vitamin supplements set to begin later this year. The study will recruit 20,000 people, a quarter of whom will be black, to see whether vitamin D and fish oil supplements might help prevent strokes, heart attacks or...

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  • Obama signs bill regulating tobacco

    Obama signs bill regulating tobacco

    By theGrio via AP

    3:04 PM on 06/22/2009

    AP Photo/Ron Edmonds PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama cited his own long struggle to quit the cigarettes he took up as a teenager as he signed the strongest-ever U.S. anti-smoking bill Monday and praised it for providing critically needed protections for future generations. "The...

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  • President announces deal with drug companies

    President announces deal with drug companies

    By theGrio via AP

    12:50 PM on 06/22/2009

    President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed the pharmaceutical industry's agreement to help close a gap in Medicare's drug coverage, calling the pact a step forward in the push for overhaul of the health care system...

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  • Sneaks on consignment

    Sneaks on consignment

    By theGrio

    11:06 AM on 06/22/2009

    ROXANNE VARGAS MIAMI -- You've heard of consignment shops for clothes, toys and even wedding dresses, but now one south Florida store wants you to walk out with a vintage pair of sneakers. Sneaker-heads can feed their fetish by heading to Air Traffic Control. ATC is a one of it's...

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  • High school football practices rethought to avoid heat related deaths

    High school football practices rethought to avoid heat related deaths

    By theGrio

    8:25 AM on 06/22/2009

    Brett Johnson Athletic trainers are calling on high school football coaches do eliminate traditional two-a-day practices in order to prevent heat related deaths and injuries. A report issued by the National Association of Athletic Trainers on Thursday outlined the dangers of the grueling training sessions and noted 39 heat related...

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  • Al Roker, Tiki Barber, and Cory Booker discuss black fatherhood

    By theGrio

    9:30 AM on 06/21/2009

    On this Father's Day, theGrio.com revisits an engaging discussion on the current state of black fatherhood between Al Roker, Tiki Barber, Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey; Rev. Eugene Rivers, a Boston pastor; Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Princeton university professor of politics and African American studies; and Marni McKoy, Heru's Principal...

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  • Melanoma skin cancer deadlier in skin of color

    Melanoma skin cancer deadlier in skin of color

    By theGrio

    5:01 PM on 06/17/2009

    NEW YORK -- According to recent studies, the five-year survival rate for African Americans with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, is 59 percent compared to 85 percent in Caucasians...

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  • FDA: Use of Zicam may cause loss of smell

    FDA: Use of Zicam may cause loss of smell

    By theGrio

    5:21 PM on 06/16/2009

    CHRIS CLACKUM The F.D.A. has lowered the boom on an over-the-counter cold remedy and has told consumers to stop using it. Researchers say there's evidence Zicam nasal swabs and gels may actually cause a person to lose their sense of smell. Zicam products have been on the F.D.A's radar for...

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  • Hospital helping unemployed with health care

    Hospital helping unemployed with health care

    By theGrio

    9:55 AM on 06/16/2009

    LEANNE GREGG The newly unemployed have joined the growing number of people who just don't know where to turn for medical care. However, the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, has a solution that's helping un-insured and under-insured patients across the region. The clinic provides services on a sliding...

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  • NYC fashion ceremony honors the First Lady

    By theGrio via AP

    8:05 AM on 06/16/2009

    SAMANTHA CRITCHELL AP Fashion Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- The fashion industry made it clear at its annual awards ceremony Monday night that it's looking to future stars to see it past the doldrums of the recession, shunning longtime favorites and honoring a largely new guard: Rodarte, Proenza Schouler, Alexander...

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