Posts Tagged ‘Breast’
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]
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]
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]
