Health & Lifestyle

  • Basketball player and jazz musician Wayman Tisdale dies (video)

    Basketball player and jazz musician Wayman Tisdale dies (video)

    By theGrio

    5:04 PM on 05/15/2009

    May 15, 2009  Wayman Tisdale died at the age of 44 Friday morning at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The three-time college All-American and former NBA star has lost his battle with cancer. Tisdale played 12 seasons in the NBA and later went on to become an award-winning jazz recording...

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  • Virtual colonoscopy effective but expensive (video)

    Virtual colonoscopy effective but expensive (video)

    By theGrio

    3:58 PM on 05/13/2009

    Virtual colonoscopy is a non-invasive method for screening the colon that can be very expensive if not covered by insurance.   Now Medicare has announced it has decided not to cover the exam.  A statement provided by the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services said the evidence is inadequate to conclude...

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  • Children who are overweight may be more prone to food allergies (video)

    By theGrio

    6:39 PM on 05/04/2009

    A national institutes of health study of more than 4-thousand kids and teens finds obese children are 26-percent more likely than other kids to have any kind of allergy. Food allergies were particularly common. Researchers say the rate of having a food allergy was 59-percent higher for obese children. The...

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