Washing your hands. Covering your cough and sneeze. Staying home when sick. These actions help limit the spread of common respiratory illness like colds, influenza and coronavirus. To help keep yourself and your communities well, there is another potentially life-threatening virus that should be on ...

By Anne-Marie Boylan, Annalise Weckesser and Sharon Dixon, The Conversation Former Miss Ireland, Chelsea Farrell, recently shared the story of how she ended up in the emergency room in severe pain with a twisted ovarian cyst. After over two-and-a-half years of symptoms, Farrell found out she had end...

By Angela Johnson, MSN Bob Marley, Prince and Aretha Franklin are just a few examples of celebrities who famously died without a will, leaving close family members and some family members they didn’t know they had to fight it out for the assets they left behind. And although millions of dollars may ...

By Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner Seniors enrolled in traditional Medicare will now be able to get rapid at-home COVID-19 tests reimbursed, a policy reversal in response to criticism that the Biden administration was putting the most vulnerable population at risk. The Centers for Medicare and...

Though you may know that you need to plan for the future, you may not realize what that entails. You may have heard the term estate plan and figured that you still had time to decide what you want to be done with your things. In fact many prefer not to think about it, though […]

By Linda Nwoke Medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in the United States. According to a study carried out by Johns Hopkins University, over 250,000 people die yearly from medical errors and negligence. Additionally, the American Medical Association, every one in three clinicians ...

The good news is that Blacks are living longer, as pre-COVID death rates declined about 25% over the previous decade. Even with those obvious advances, however, Black people are living with and often dying of complications from conditions like high blood pressure that are better managed in other com...

By Lisa Miller, The Conversation Thankfully, most people who get COVID–19 don’t become seriously ill – especially those who are vaccinated. But a small fraction do get hospitalized, and a smaller fraction do die. If you are vaccinated and catch the coronavirus, what are your chances of getting hospi...

By Michael Merschel, American Heart Association News Older stroke patients who had a history of COVID-19 were more likely to develop dangerous blood clots in the veins than those who did not have the coronavirus-driven disease, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. B...

The New York State Division of Consumer Protection (DCP) today warned about scammers taking advantage of the free COVID-19 test government program to steal personal information for unscrupulous purposes. Due to the high demand, scammers may start using techniques that typically arise with a free gov...