For years and years and years now, women have used two particular pieces of fruit to define their body shape – and, to a certain…

In the United States, black women are two to three times more likely to have fibroids than white women. These fibroids, which are noncancerous growths that…

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There is nothing more frightening for a parent than to hear that their child has a life-threatening illness. At St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in…

The D.L. Hughley Show

D.L. Hughley recognizes the Michigan State Spartans’ Adreian Payne as this week’s Human Being of the Week. The college senior was chosen for his thoughtful and…

In the 1999 film “The Hurricane”, “Denzel Washington”  portrayed boxer Rubin Carter. Carter is now fighting prostate cancer. He was diagnosed in 2011 and was given three to six months to live, but the 76-year-old is still fighting the disease. A source tells the New York Daily News, “It’s hard to look at him like this.” Carter was wrongfully convicted of […]

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Jacque Reid goes “Inside Her Story” with Erica Christina, Little 2013 Miss Black US Ambassador, about Ovarian Cancer and what women should look for in…

After the statement Michael Douglas was quoted as making about “oral sex” and “his type of throat cancer,”his camp is doing damage control. The Statement, Douglas was quoted as saying is that he did not regret smoking and drinking for years ahead of his diagnosis. “No,” he said. “No. Because, without wanting to get too specific, this […]

On Twitter, the ESPN anchor Stuart Scott said, “I’m back in the fight. C reared its head again. Chemo every 2 weeks, but I’ll still work, still work out.” ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys said Scott “plans to continue to work the best he can around his treatments.” When asked about his feelings about Lance Armstrong who founded the charity ‘Livestrong’ to […]

Via: Foxbaltimore.com Jack Andraka invented a innovative new way of testing pancreatic cancer. Andraka was awarded first prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering fair. His patent-pending test has proved to be more than 90 percent accurate, 28 times cheaper and 1000 times more sensitive than existing tests for the disease. Click here to read […]

Donna Summer — the Queen of Disco — died this morning after a battle with cancer TMZ has reported. We’re told Summer was in Florida at the time of her death. She was 63-years-old. Summer was a 5-time Grammy winner who shot to superstardom in the ’70s with iconic hits like “Last Dance,” “Hot Stuff” […]