Nucala's approval offers hope for uncontrolled COPD. This new drug reduces flare-ups, a key benefit for Black Americans.

New research conducted by scientists at Northwestern University has found that Black men may have a genetic advantage in immunotherapy treatments for prostate cancer. Black men are more likely to have ...

More than 2 million pastries sold nationwide have been recalled for potential listeria contamination, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report updated on Wednesday, February 5.

“Food desert” is a term that has been around for years. Most of the time when people are using that term they are talking about Black and brown communities. Food deserts are geographic areas where ...

You may know Zoe Saldana for all her popular acting roles now, but as a little girl growing up in the Dominican Republic, her passion was ballet. Though she eventually gave up on learning that ...

“As a Black woman, I definitely advocate for other Black women to become a part cancer research, and here is why,” says Bridgette Hempstead, a Black woman with metastatic breast cancer. “Medications ...

Did you know the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there were nearly 68,000 new cases of acute hepatitis C in 2020 and over 107,000 newly reported cases of chronic ...

As the leader of the National Medical Association, I have the responsibility to provide a perspective to our constituents on key issues in Medicine that are important to us and to the patients whom we ...

The village needs healing. Suicide ranked 14th as a cause of death among Black children in 1993-1997, but increased to 9th in 2008 - 2012. In a 2015 study published in JAMA Pediatrics looking at ...

John C. Lipman, MD, FSIR reached out to me after writing the "Living with Fibroids: Surgery Isn't The Only Way To Stop Them" article here on Blackdoctor.org, and it was a pleasure hearing about his ...

Since the dawn of humanity, the search for eternal youth and beauty has been a daunting one. Countless beauty products, procedures, and exercises have been recommended when attempting to fight Father ...

Netflix & Learn might not sound quite as cool as the more popular phrase "Netflix & Chill," but anytime a film can entertain and educate it's worth a watch. "Breathe," executive produced by Angela ...