Save Your Ta-Tas: Know the Facts About Breast Cancer
In case you couldn’t tell by the plethora of pink products from blenders to nail polish available in a store near you, Breast Cancer Awareness Month is in full affect. This year alone, there will be nearly 27,000 estimated new cases of breast cancer in Black women, according to statistics from the American Cancer Society. Even though White women are more likely to get breast cancer than Black women, we are most likely to die of breast cancer, at least partly because of... Read More
Taking It To the Bridge: A Chat With Patrice Gaines
Bridge: A structure allowing passage over or around an obstacle; something that provides a link, connection, or means of coming together; a transitional section in a musical work; a means of communication or understanding between people. Encarta Dictionary: English (North America) Patrice Gaines wears many hats. She is a mother, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, activist and mentor. But perhaps one of her proudest accomplishments is founding the Brown Angel Foundation,... Read More
MS Study Reveals Differences in Blacks and Whites
The mystery to why blacks tend to face greater disability with MS may be closer to being solved. According to a study published in the July 3, 2007, issue of medical journal Neurology, an antibody used to diagnose multiple sclerosis is present in greater levels in the spinal fluid of blacks with MS than whites with the disease. Researchers compared the immune responses of 66 African-Americans and 132 whites with multiple sclerosis. The results showed that levels of antibodies respons ible... Read More
