Health Rewind: Breast Cancer Rates Up Among Black Women
Plus, McDonald's will serve vegetables as a side.
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Breast Cancer Increasing Among African-Americans - Breast cancer rates among Black women have gone up slightly, a new study finds. While this boost was small, it catapulted our rates almost as high as white women, who have the highest breast cancer rates in the U.S., writes Red Orbit. The study also confirms that Black women are more likely to die from breast cancer and be diagnosed with aggressive forms of the disease. (Photo: Ron Chapple/Getty Images)
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NYC Launches Campaign to Boost Girls’ Self-Esteem - New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg has recently launched I’m A Girl, an ad campaign aimed at boosting girls’ self-esteem. The ads showcase girls of different weights, race and abilities (one ad includes a girl in a wheelchair). Each ad boasts the slogan,” “I’m beautiful the way I am.” (Photo: Getty Images/STOCK)
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Some Public Schools Dropping Out of Lunch Program - Over 500 public schools in the U.S. have dropped out of the subsidized lunch program, the Agriculture Department says. Some of these schools blame the new healthier menus handed down by the White House, which are more expensive and not as well liked. But USA Today writes that overall, a majority of the remaining schools say these lunches have been a success and roughly 95,500 schools are still signed on to the program. (Photo: TIMES-PICAYUNE /LANDOV)
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Colon Cancer Up Among Young Adults - Researchers from the University of Colorado found that while most cases of colon cancer occur among the 50 and over crowd, young people are not exempt from this disease and rates among this group are increasing. The biggest gains are among the 20-29 year-old group “where there has been an annual 5.2 percent increase in cases in men and a 5.6 percent increase in women,” writes HealthDay News. (Photo: American Cancer Society/Getty Images)
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FDA Food Inspections Halted as Government Shuts Down - Because of the government shut down, the Food and Drug Administration will stop a majority of their food industry inspections, the Huffington Post writes. It’s estimated that everyday the FDA does 80 food inspections. The good news: The agency will continue to inspect meat production facilities as a means to monitor food safety. (Photo: Robert Browman/Getty Images)
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Montel Williams' New Health Show - Emmy-winning author and motivational speaker Montel Williams debuts his new online health show “Living Well with Montel Williams." His show will feature guests talking about the little things we can do to improve our lives. (Photo: PNP/WENN.com)
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Can a Foot Cream Cure HIV? - The end of AIDS may come in the form of an anti-fungal foot cream, says a new study. Researchers from Rutgers Medical School found that in a lab the lotion-like drug Cicopirox tricks HIV-cells into killing themselves without harming healthier cells around them. The study’s authors warn that more clinical trials need to be done with people living with HIV to know for sure if the lotion will kill HIV in the body. (photo:Pascal Preti)
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New Scholarship Created for Future Black Heart Docs - The American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation and the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) have teamed together to promote diversity with a new scholarship program in the medical field. The scholarship will “provide tuition support to first- and second-year African-American medical students with an expressed interest in cardiology,” writes the Washington Informer. (Photo: Detroit Free Press/MCT /Landov)
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Young People Needed to Make Health Reform Work - With the Health Insurance Open Marketplace opening on Oct. 1, HealthDay News reminds us that young people enrolling are the key to making the Affordable Care Act a success. Getting relatively healthy young people to sign up counterbalances the health care costs of older Americans who have more health problems. Calculate your cost of health care here.(Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
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Adding Mental Health Programs Can Better Teens’ Health - Is addressing teens’ mental health the key to getting teens to lose weight? Researchers from Ohio State University implemented COPE, a mental-health lifestyle course in conjunction with a healthy lifestyle program for 779 teens. They found that teens lost more weight, were less depressed and drank less alcohol compared to those who just participated in the healthy lifestyle program, reported Science Daily. (Photo: Image Source/Getty Images)