The Tom Joyner Morning Show has teamed up with Walmart to promote a Tom Joyner Take A Loved One to the Doctor Day event at the following store location: Join Sybil Wilkes at Walmart Neighborhood Market #3171 2218 Greenville Ave Dallas, TX 75206 Date: Friday, October 25, 2013 Time: 12pm – 2pm
Anton J. Gunn, Director of External Affairs in the Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs (IEA) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, answers your questions about the Affordable Care Act aka “Obamacare”. What is the web site for young folks to receive more info on the Affordable Care Act? You should know […]
Have a question for the doctor? Text it to “646464” (OHOHOH). It is open enrollment season for Medicare, Part D when anyone with Medicare coverage can change his health plan and prescription drug coverage. That goes for anyone who gets health benefits through Original Medicare, a Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plan with no drug benefit, a […]
ORAL HEALTH AFFECTS TOTAL HEALTH Your body can’t be healthy unless your mouth is healthy. In fact, dental care is medically necessary. Previous research linked gum disease with diabetes, low birth weight babies, and heart disease. Current research shows that gum disease may have even more of an impact on overall health than previously thought. […]
B. Waine Kong, PhD, is a psychologist and contributing editor and consultant for Black Health Matters. Kong is the former CEO of the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC); he retired in 2008 after leading the organization for more than 21 years. Kong was instrumental in setting up Hypertension Clinics in churches and barbershops, since 1978 […]
Having a heart is part of being human. We love with our hearts, we give with our hearts, we get our hearts broken and we feel it in our hearts when things are going wrong. Dr. Mehmet Oz may now be best known as a TV doctor and host of his own show, but he’s […]
For IPAD/IPOD users: Star Jones has reason to be excited about life these days. Not only is the TV personality working on a new multi-host talk show that she’s already shot the pilot for, she’s in the best heart health of her life. For Jones, though, that came after a lot of struggle. “I’m in […]
There was a time when a shot of penicillin or some other antibiotic was the cure-all for just about any infection. Over time, however, various bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics and, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 23,000 people die annually from infections. Some even take out hospitalized […]
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Well, I am aware that my breasts may be on the small side, but until a scary situation a while back, I never had to request – let alone, beg – anyone to pay attention to my “little friends.” After the humiliation of being turned down, darn-near staging a one-woman […]
Fitness and nutrition expert Lisa Lynn says it may be your metabolism that is sabotaging your best-laid plans to lose weight and boost your spirits. Lynn, a certified fitness trainer who is seen frequently on the “The Dr. Oz Show,” says good nutrition, healthy supplements and the right combinations of food, along with exercise, can […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Their unity fraying, House Republicans bent but did not blink Monday in their demand for changes in the nation’s health care overhaul as the price for preventing the first partial government shutdown in 17 years. “We’re at the brink,” said Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., moments after the Senate voted 54-46 to reject […]
Roland Martin talks with BlackAmericaWeb Senior Political Correspondent and co-host of “Keeping it Real with Rev. Al Sharpton”, Michael H. Cottman, about affordable health care and the decline of HBCUs.