25% of Blacks Predicted to Lose their Homes to Foreclosure Foreclosure rates among African- American homeowners are pretty much the same across all income groups, unlike those for whites whose foreclosure ratesdecline as income rises, according to a study published in November by the Center for Re... Read more...
Photo: Dan Saelinger By Dr. Mehmet Oz From the Japanese to the Russians, the Greeks to the Kuna Indians of Panama, every culture has its own secrets to better health and longer life. These traditional remedies and practices—like drinking a calming herbal tea or cooking with a partic... Read more...
Long after questions were first raised about the overuse of powerful CT scans, hundreds of hospitals across the country needlessly exposed patients to radiation by scanning their chests twice on the same day, according to federal records and interviews with researchers. Performing two scans i... Read more...
by Kersty McCourt Pretrial Detention and Torture: Why Pretrial Detainees Are Most at Risk is part of a broader effort to demonstrate how this single issue of excessive detention lies at the heart of a web of misfortune and abuse that disproportionally affects the poor and the excluded, and whi... Read more...