The CDC estimates that roughly 1 in 6 Americans will get sick from food-borne illnesses each year. E. coli outbreaks continue to be a public health problem, both in the States and abroad, especially since our food supply has gone global and we're able to have fresh produce year-round by importing fr... Read more...
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corp., which represents the second largest media conglomerate in the world behind the Walt Disney Company, is taking a severe beating as Murdoch himself is having to address various criminal allegations, including that hisNews of the Worldtabloid illegally hacked... Read more...
A U.S. medical advisory group recommended providing women free birth control and other preventive health services under the nation's healthcare overhaul. The Institute of Medicine report, commissioned by the Obama administration, recommended that all U.S.-approved birth control methods -- including... Read more...
by Luke Douglas EDUCATORS are being urged to incorporate the experiences of boys outside of school into to the classroom, and to give boys more space to express themselves without reprimand as ways to improve their performance in the education system. Participants at a one-day workshop tackl... Read more...
The only thing that stands between the children of your community receiving an excellent education or not is your involvement, or lack of it, in their education. Will you join the Million Father March? It is easy! It does not take much time. It does not take much money. We give you ev... Read more...
A 58-year-old grandmother is sentenced to three years’ probation and must attend cognitive behavioral therapy sessions as part of her criminal file-sharing sentence. Violet Blue asks psychologist Dr. Keely Kolmes, PsyD, if file-sharing is now considered a disorder This week a 58-year-old gra... Read more...
For Master Historian, Prof. Manning Marable of Columbia University, a book on the life of Malcolm X could only be a challenge that would daunt the faint-hearted. Dr. Marable, founder of nearly half a dozen Black studies programs at colleges and universities across the country, would meet ... Read more...
In a nation with 93 million obese people, a few ob-gyn doctors in South Florida now refuse to see otherwise healthy women solely because they are overweight. Fifteen obstetrics-gynecology practices out of 105 polled by the Sun Sentinel said they have set weight cut-offs for new patients start... Read more...