‘Health’ Archives
December 1 is World AIDS Day
December 1 is World AIDS Day Since December 1, 1988, the first ever global health day, World AIDS Day, was held for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate those who have died of it. While [Read More]
The Colours of Sickle Cell fashion show – combining fashion and raising awareness
By: Charles S. Mombo The Colours of Sickle Cell fashion show will raise awareness and funds on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 in Washington D.C. Hosting the event are designers Korto Momolu, Guy Lambert, Renee Nash, April Watts, and Anji Corley. When we at ChocolateCity.cc heard [Read More]
Best wishes and speedy health to Venus Williams as she battles Sjogren’s Syndrome
On Wednesday, tennis superstar Venus Williams, 31-year-old, announced that she was withdrawing from the U.S. Open due to a medical condition - Sjogren’s Syndrome. On Wednesday, tennis superstar Venus Williams, 31-year-old, announced that she was withdrawing from the U.S. [Read More]
Ruling by the Dysfunctional Five Supreme Court Justices affects the poor
By Charles S. Mombo From every indication, it appears that the United States Supreme Court decisions are more and more in favor of partisan politics and big money donor corporations. Image Source: danvolper.com/ EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW — These words, written above the [Read More]
Kathy Hochul victory was a Referendum on Medicare, Stupid!
By: Charles S. Mombo Congratulations to Democratic Congresswoman-elect Kathy Hochul on her outstanding victory for winning New York’s 26th Congressional District (NY-26) over businessman and Tea Party candidate Jack Davis and Republican candidate Assemblywoman Jane [Read More]
Shaquille O’Neal and Nicole Alexander discuss his sleep apnea
Post Sponsored by: Search Engine Optimization consultants A screengrab of Shaquille O'Neal Nicole AlexanderIn this Harvard Medical School video, Shaquille O'Neal and Nicole Alexander meet with medical experts to discuss treatment for Shaq’s sleep apnea. According [Read More]
Jamie Scott and Gladys Scott too fat for kidney transplant
Jamie Scott must lose more than 100 pounds. Doctors for Jamie Scott and Gladys Scott are saying that the sisters are too fat to undergo kidney transplant; and they must lose their respective weight before they are considered to be tested for compatibility. Jamie Scott must [Read More]
FDA warns against buying selling breast milk online
Source: FDA.gov The benefits of breastfeeding are unquestionable and well established. Breastfeeding is strongly recommended by healthcare professionals and by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is noting that in some [Read More]
MaLinda Sapp, wife of Pastor Marvin Sapp died of colon cancer
Pastor Marvin and MaLinda SappChocolate City wants to express its deepest condolence to the Sapp family for the passing of MaLinda Sapp. Sapp, 43 year-old was the wife of gospel singer Marvin Sapp. She died of colon cancer. Sapp was co-pastor along with her husband at the [Read More]
Viagra older men and sexually transmitted diseases
The rate of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in older men taking erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs like Viagra is twice as high as in their non-medicated peers.It seems bad enough that since the emergence of the blue pills, “big mama” has been [Read More]
Chicago Barbara Bates Celebrates with Sisters Embracing Life
Sisters Embracing Life (SEL) is a Chicago-based minority cancer awareness support organizationFashion icon, designer and breast cancer survivor Barbara Bates will be one of the keynote speakers at Sisters Embracing Life’s 10th anniversary dinner and celebration. Bates [Read More]
Disempowering A Black Woman’s Breast
By Charles S. Mombo Self-ExaminationOn November 16, 2009, The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) announced that it is changing its guidelines for mammography. USPSTF’s new recommendation says women in their 40's don't need to get mammograms [Read More]
Abdul-Jabbar Has CML
Abdul-Jabbar has Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CMLAccording to former Los Angeles Lakers player and NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) last December. Known for being a very private person, he decided to go [Read More]
Wayman Tisdale, musician and former NBA Star is dead
Wayman Tisdale, former NBA star and jazz musician Photo Source:WaymanTisdale.comWayman Tisdale, 44-year-old, former NBA star and one of today’s baddest jazz musician died on Friday after coping with cancer. Tisdale, died in a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital, after having [Read More]
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – Beyond February 7
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness DayAlthough February 7 is officially declared National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day; ChocolateCity.cc has decided to extend it to 365 days due to the seriousness of the epidemic and its rapid growth among the African American populations. [Read More]
Exercise and sleep lower cancer risk in women
Breast CancerThe link between physical activity and a reduced cancer risk is well established, according to new research presented this month in Washington, D.C. at an international meeting on cancer prevention hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). [Read More]
Black Chicagoan – highest breast cancer mortality rate
Mammography screeningThe Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force recently released its report – highlighting the alarming breast cancer mortality disparity between black and white since 2005. In 1980, black women and white women in Chicago with breast cancer [Read More]
Surgeon General – leg pain signals deadly blood clot
Source: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/ Deep vein thrombosisActing Surgeon General Steven K. Galson, M.D., M.P.H., today issued a Call to Action to reduce the number of cases of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in the United States. Galson urged all Americans to [Read More]
High Army suicide rate, another negative effect of Bush’s war
High Army Suicide RateCNN’s Pentagon producer, Mike Mount, reported today that the rate of suicides among-active duty soldiers is on pace to surpass both last year’s numbers and the rate of suicide in the general U.S. population for the first time since the [Read More]
Bernie Mac, an original king of comedy dies at 50
Bernie MacChicago Comedian Bernie Mac (real name: Bernard Jeffery McCullough), 50-year-old, died early Saturday at the Northwestern Hospital in Chicago from complications due to pneumonia, his publicist told the Chicago Tribune. Just couple of days ago, it was [Read More]
CDC: African Americans hardest hit with HIV/AIDS
49% of people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS were Blacks According to the CDC, of all racial and ethnic groups in the United States, HIV and AIDS have hit African Americans the hardest. The reasons are not directly related to race or ethnicity, but rather to some of the barriers [Read More]
FDA in spicy hot pursuit of salmonella source
Raw jalapeño peppersThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers that jalapeño and serrano peppers grown in the United States are not connected with the current Salmonella St. Paul outbreak and consumers may feel free to eat them without [Read More]
CDC data shows more Americans are fat
Obesity in AmericaWhether you sugarcoat by using the terminology fat, obesity, proportional or healthy, it is up to you. The reality is American are eating themselves to death by injecting their bodies with junk. According to the CDC, the proportion of U.S. adults who self [Read More]
Black Women and Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Triple Negative Breast Cancer is rare, aggressive and difficult to treat version of breast cancer. 15 percent of the estimated 180,000 women who will learned that they have invasive breast cancer this year in the United States will also have triple negative. The majority of [Read More]
