By Alex Boyer/FOX 4 TV DALLAS – A former slave from Texas is being honored for being a trailblazer. Dr. Marcellus Clayton Cooper was enslaved on a farm in Dallas in
Name change honors late Dallas-area medical leader DALLAS – The RedBird Health Center, the newest of Parkland Health’s Community Oriented Primary Care health centers in Dallas County, is
By AMANDA SEITZ WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in a decade, Americans will pay less next year on monthly premiums for Medicare’s Part B plan, which
By MARIA CHENG LONDON (AP) — Health authorities in Europe, North America, Israel and Australia have identified more than 100 cases of monkeypox in recent days. Officials around
By KATE BRUMBACK ATLANTA (AP) — Dr. Dare Adewumi was thrilled when he was hired to lead the neurosurgery practice at an Atlanta-area hospital near where he grew
By Sylvia Dunnavant Hines After Actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock during the Oscars for making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, one word was
By Isadore Hall, Special to California Black Media Last spring, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first new Alzheimer’s disease therapy since 2003. For the 6
“Don’t call your girlfriends or don’t go to YouTube University. You need to go to someone with board certified credentials,” stresses Dr. Amerson, adding that some of the
Maternal mortality rates across the country are among the highest in the developed world, and recent data from Centers for Disease Control (CDC) show that Black, American Indian and Alaska
