Tag: health
Daylight Savings Time and your personal safety
By Samuetta Hill Drew
At 2 a.m. on November 6, 2016 your clocks will move back one hour, giving everyone an additional hour of sleep....
Five questions every woman should ask her doctor about her breast...
By Tyler Greer
UAB News
What are the questions women need to ask their primary care physician about their breast health, or their oncologist if they are...
Neighborhoods important factor in risk of stroke for all races
By Alicia Rohan
UAB News
A higher neighborhood advantage, or socioeconomic status, of where a person lives contributes to a lower risk of having a stroke no...
As Medicaid loses stigma, its fate rides on stormy election
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Medicaid, long the stepchild of government health care programs, is finally coming into its own.
The federal-state program for...
Cancer survivor Gary Burley: ‘Early detection is the key’
By Fred Mitchell
For the Birmingham Times
Gary Burley made a career of being a premier run-stopper and difference-maker on the football field as a defensive...
Where is outrage for abused black women?
By Idrissa N. Snider
This is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
On Oct. 19, Nicole Wallace, 31-year-old mother of two from Wylam was laid to rest...
Keeping safe during everyday tasks
By Samuetta Hill Drew
There are some simple and easy safety decisions the everyday person can make about items used in their everyday lives; items...
Breast cancer survivor: ‘I’m not going to be a victim. I’m...
By Denise Stewart
For the Birmingham Times
At 8 o’clock on a late-September morning, Paula Garfield laced up her sneakers and took her place at the...
$27M Initiative to Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths in African-American Community
Special to The Times
WASHINGTON -- The Susan G. Komen breast cancer organization gathered philanthropic, civic, medical and business leaders in Washington recently to formally...
Birmingham area events for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
By Beena Thannickal
UAB News
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, other than skin cancer. It is the second-leading cause...
