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In 2010, there were about 410,000 dialysis patients in the United States. But did you know African Americans are at increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD) leading to dialysis and transplant? Compared to other ethnic groups, the African American population has higher rates of diabetes and high blood pressure, which are the two...

The older you get, the people dying will more and more be folks you know. It’s just that simple. What amazes me is how many of us are not willing to accept this very final event in life as a reminder to “get our affairs in order”. I don’t know about you, but it is...

There is a serious problem in this country that is an epidemic. The problem is hypertension. Approximately 35 percent of African-American men and 34 percent of African American women suffer from high blood pressure, or hypertension, which is the number one cause of preventable death among African Americans. Hypertension develops earlier in life in African...

    From the mouths of babes, comes Truth. The old adage played out recently, when a your girl started a petition, that resulted in PepsiCo to remove a dangerous chemical form some of it’s beverage drinks. Sarah Kavanagh, the 15-year-old girl from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Kavanagh started a petition on Change.org, an online petition platform,...

I hate to say I told you so but the truth of the matter is that our food supply is more dangerous today than ever before. It isn’t that food poisoning events are being emphasized more frequently. The news is more of us are at risk than ever before. The globalization of our food supply,...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” -Charles Dickens- The promise of millions of newly insured Americans, which includes countless people of color, has yet to show indications that it is impacting health disparities. Even the recent slowdown in spending on health care costs in this country, happened mainly because...

Addressing Historical Health Inequities Today, I received an email from an organization, requesting me to make arrangements for “free” Public Service Announcements on a Black Talk Radio station, to publicize an upcoming Health Conference. Normally, this would not be a problem, since the state of Black health is a truly dismal picture, and any effort...

Uterine fibroids are common. As many as 1 in 5 women may have fibroids during their childbearing years (the time after starting menstruation for the first time and before menopause). Half of all women have fibroids by age 50. Fibroids are rare in women under age 20. Black women are three times more likely to...

  Now more than ever, the population of the United States – the “melting pot” of all nations – is a mix of societies, cultures, beliefs, and attitudes that impact the health-care community. Because of this “cultural gumbo”, few would argue that protection from infectious and communicable diseases is one of the health issues of...