Zambia's effort to lower maternal mortality includes maternity shelters outside hospitals where rural women can wait for delivery. But as women in one shelter attest, the walks are long and…
A new study has linked obesity in black women to abuse in childhood. (Photo: Fotolia) New research has established a link between obesity in black women and sexual and physical…
Enlarge Renata Simone Productions/Frontline Dr. David Ho, an HIV/AIDS specialist, draws blood from Magic Johnson, one of the people featured in Endgame: AIDS in Black America. Renata Simone Productions/Frontline Dr.…
Higher levels of childhood physical or sexual abuse are associated with an increased risk for obesity among adult African American women, researchers said. It was the first study to look at a…
Lauren Luke is famous for her YouTube makeup tutorials. But her latest clip, "How to look your best the morning after," is a plea for victims of domestic violence…
Black women who experienced abuse during their childhood and teenage years are more likely to suffer from obesity as adults, says a new study published in the August 2012 issue…
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Raising Women's Voices for the Health Care We Need celebrated today's historic Supreme Court ruling upholding the federal health reform law, the Affordable Care…
(CNN) -- They are here practically every day. Anti-abortion protesters set up their signs outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization and regularly preach their beliefs to anyone who will listen.…
WASHINGTON, June 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and convener, Black Women's Roundtable issued the following statement on…
Newswise — Washington, D.C., June 27, 2012 – The American Heart Association, Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR), and WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, yesterday applauded…
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