You Don’t Have to be a Smoker to Get Lung Cancer
This year, more than 230,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer, bringing the number of people living with the disease to over half a million.
Worried About Your High Blood Sugar? Do These Four Things to Prevent Diabetes
Diabetes doesn’t just appear out of nowhere. In fact, most people with diabetes start out with prediabetes, when their blood is higher than normal, but not high enough to have diabetes.
Shattering Stigmas: What Women Need to Know About Lung Cancer
In the last 40 years, the rate of lung cancer has dropped 35 percent for men, while rising nearly 90 percent for women. Once thought of as a male smoker’s disease, lung cancer is shattering stigmas.
Are You Practicing Good Lung Health? Five Tips to Breathe Easier.
Right now, one in seven older adults suffers from some sort of lung disease, whether it’s chronic bronchitis or emphysema (which make up chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD), asthma or occupational lung diseases like asbestosis and mesothelioma.
Mental Health Stigmas are Hurting Minorities Most
A sad spike in recent high-profile suicides has made mental health part of our everyday conversation, but this is a crisis that has been escalating for decades. Although largely seen as a “white problem,” mental health struggles disproportionately affect minorities, and many who suffer don’t get the treatment they need.
Missing the Bullseye, 8 Hidden Signs You Have Lyme Disease
Summer is the season to head outdoors, but the looming threat of tick bites has many uneasy about a hike in the woods, with good reason.
On a Sugar High? Diabetes Rates Are on the Rise for African Americans
So often I hear from patients that they are tired of getting the same prescriptions to ward off any number of chronic conditions affecting Americans today. While it may sound like a broken record, don’t tune it out.
Six Steps to Relieve Your Overworked and Underappreciated Kidneys
When asked to rattle off the most important organs in the human body, many people overlook the kidneys. These organs are vital to your health, and what you don’t know about their function and more specifically how to take care of them, can lead to significant health problems.
Breast Cancer Awareness: What it Means for African American Women
Breast cancer is the second most common kind of cancer among women in the U.S. Unfortunately, there are racial disparities that result in a higher mortality rate.
Five Reasons Women Should Pay More Attention to their Stroke Risk
About 800,000 Americans have a stroke each year, and 55,000 more of them will be women. While breast cancer feels like the most looming threat for many women, stroke kills twice as many as breast cancer.