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Alicia Keys Wants to Empower Women - To commemorate National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Alicia Keys, has teamed up with Greater Than AIDS for a new campaign, EMPOWER. The project raises awareness around women and HIV here in the U.S. Watch a video clip of five positive women talk to Keys about their diagnosis, the stigma they face and what empowerment means to them.  — Kellee Terrell (Photo: Greater Than Aids Foundation)

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Medical Schools Lack Black Male Students - African-American men made up only 2.5 percent of all med school applicants in 2011, says a recent report. The Association of American Medical Colleges also found that while Black men (30 and older) make up 10 percent of the U.S. male population, they only account for 3 percent of practicing doctors. To increase these numbers, better minority recruitment is needed.(Photo: Joshua Hodge Photography / Getty Images)

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Bloomberg’s Newest Health Campaign: Earbuds and Hearing Loss  - First it was super-sized sodas, now New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg is focusing on earbuds and hearing loss. NYC’s health department is launching a new campaign warning young adults and teens about the dangers of excessively loud music from smartphones and MP3 players, reported the Associated Press. One in eight children experiences hearing loss due to severe noise. (Photo: Bartomeu Amengual / Getty Images)

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Are Magazine Ads Teaching Lower-Income Men to Be Hypermasculine? - A recent study released some bothersome findings: Magazine ads that depict men as super violent, aggressive and sexual are geared toward low-income and younger men. A group of psychologists analyzed a range of men’s magazines and found that 57 percent of them had at least one “hypermasculine” ad with Playboy and Game Informer having the most, reported Slate. (Photo: Andersen Ross / Getty Images) 

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Diabetes Costs Nation $245 Billion Annually - A new study found that diabetes-related costs have gone up 41 percent in the past five years, reported USA Today. Researchers from the American Diabetes Association found that this massive increase isn’t due to rising treatment costs per patient, but because millions more people were diagnosed with diabetes over the years. (Photo: Leland Bobbe / Getty Images)

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The Black AIDS Epidemic: Is Focusing on Behavior Enough? - What will help bring down new HIV infections among African-Americans? A new op-ed for TheBody.com questions whether solely focusing on behavioral interventions — safer sex and testing — is the answer. The article challenges readers to not forget that structural factors — poverty, oppression and lack of access to health care — also make Blacks more vulnerable to HIV transmission. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) 

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Jamar Rogers Opens Up About His HIV Treatment - HIV-positive Jamar Rogers, The Voice’s breakout star, talks to the Black AIDS Institute about the importance of adhering to his medication. Rogers stressed that side effects are only temporary and the key to surviving HIV is having a good attitude, going to your doctor’s appointment and taking your meds faithfully. Read the entire interview here. (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) 

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Mississippi Baby “Cured” of HIV - A baby born with HIV appears to have been “cured” of the disease. The 2 1/2-year-old child has been off medication for about a year and has no signs of infection, according to scientists. If the child remains HIV-free and it can be proven that the child was actually HIV-positive, it would mark only the world's second reported cure, writes the Associated Press.  (Photo: AP Photo/Johns Hopkins Medicine)

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Are Black Women With Breast Cancer More at Risk for PTSD? - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among women with breast cancer isn’t rare, but a new study suggests that Black and Asian women have a 50 percent higher chance of being diagnosed with the psychiatric disorder. While the study’s authors admit they aren’t sure why, they hope that understanding how women cope could help improve African-American women’s survival rates, reported WebMD.  (Photo: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Should Drug Addicts Be Thrown in Prison? - A New York Times feature highlights the work that federal judges and prosecutors have been doing to keep drug addicts out of prison. Under these programs, addicts must partake in mental health and addiction services and admit to their crimes. A 2009 report found that since 1980, of the 25.4 million drug arrests nationwide, Blacks account for one-third of them. (Photo: REUTERS/John Gress/Files) 

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Don’t Forget That Fiber Is Good for Your Heart Too! - The Mediterranean Diet isn’t the only diet that’s good for your heart. Jody Gilchrist, a health expert from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, told HealthDay News that high-fiber foods help our ticker too. She suggests that consuming more oatmeal, beans, whole wheat grains, fruits and vegetables can help lower our “bad” cholesterol and keep us feel fuller for longer.  (Photo: REUTERS/Rick Wilking /Landov)

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Mental Illness and the Gun Control Debate - While the Sandy Hook massacre has raised awareness around mental health and gun violence, a new USA Today feature questions whether laws focusing solely on the mentally ill is fair. Some health experts believe that such legislation could further stigmatize mental illness, especially given that only 3-5 percent of people suffering from psychiatric disorders commit violent crimes. (Photos from left: GettyImages, KEYSTONE /Landov)