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I put my insomnia down to drinking and perimenopause. Then a scan revealed my LIVER could be to blame... and it affects more women than you think. Here's how to find out if you have it too: GEORGINA FULLER

I put my insomnia down to drinking and perimenopause. Then...

It might sound strange but a recent health check has given me serious pause for...

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Repatriation process can shatter mental and physical health, experts warn

Repatriation process can shatter mental and physical health,...

Health workers call for co-ordinated efforts to offer holistic and effective support...

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Joe Wicks urges parents to be positive role models by working out with children

Joe Wicks urges parents to be positive role models by working...

The TV fitness coach has urged families to take part in his Activate exercise animated...

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8 warning signs of colon cancer you should never ignore

8 warning signs of colon cancer you should never ignore

Colon cancer remains one of the most common cancers diagnosed in the United States,...

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Period pains: Could you be mistakenly taking the wrong pain relief?

Period pains: Could you be mistakenly taking the wrong...

When it comes to managing your period pains, are you one of the two-thirds of women...

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Why Health, Nutrition, and Early Childhood Development Can Power Growth in Central and West Africa

Why Health, Nutrition, and Early Childhood Development...

In a region exposed to fragility, conflict, violence, climate shocks, and food insecurity,...

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How social grant fraud crackdown could worsen teen depression

How social grant fraud crackdown could worsen teen depression

The social development department says research should improve access to the grants...

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Think you know how to eat on GLP-1s? You need more than a basic 101…

Think you know how to eat on GLP-1s? You need more than...

The weight-loss drug comes with risks, so the right diet is crucial, Dr Federica...

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Diabetes patients in Gaza face survival battle amid war shortages

Diabetes patients in Gaza face survival battle amid war...

Insulin and equipment shortages in Gaza pose fatal risks, leading to critical health...

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Black celebrities who opened up about mental health and changed the conversation

Black celebrities who opened up about mental health and...

These black celebrities bravely shared their mental health journeys, helping break...

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Mariam Olayode: Why Nigerians Are Scared of Visiting The Dentist

Mariam Olayode: Why Nigerians Are Scared of Visiting The...

A girl had been managing her pain for weeks. She took painkillers in the morning...

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Juice, Water, Diapers: Why Do Black Children Keep Getting Killed Over Cheap Products?

Juice, Water, Diapers: Why Do Black Children Keep Getting...

Before Kohen Wiley was shot, his mother lifted him up so police officers could see...

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More than educators: Parents relying on teachers for children’s mental health and social support

More than educators: Parents relying on teachers for children’s...

Discover how teachers are going beyond academics to provide emotional and social...

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Deidra Smith turned her weight loss into a movement

Deidra Smith turned her weight loss into a movement

When Deidra Smith lost more than 100 pounds, she did not hire a publicist or launch...

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Childhood sleep problems may double teen depression risk

Childhood sleep problems may double teen depression risk

A growing body of research has made clear that sleep and mental health are deeply...

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What Gabrielle Union discovered after 34 years of trauma

What Gabrielle Union discovered after 34 years of trauma

Gabrielle Union has spent more than three decades carrying a weight most people...

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The Health Costs of Adultification and Body Policing of Black Girls

The Health Costs of Adultification and Body Policing of...

Black girls in America are often denied the basic freedom of childhood. Long before...

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Artist, Producer, and Philanthropist Danny Simmons Jr. Dead at 72

Artist, Producer, and Philanthropist Danny Simmons Jr....

Creative force Danny Simmons Jr. has died at 72. Simmons was a celebrated abstract...

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5 Ways to Protect Your Memory from Dementia

5 Ways to Protect Your Memory from Dementia

Caring for your brain begins with paying attention to how you live, how you age,...

Our 2026 Sunscreen Guide – Expert Picks for Melanin-Rich Skin

Our 2026 Sunscreen Guide – Expert Picks for Melanin-Rich...

If you’re over 35, you may remember a time when sun exposure was an encouraged and...

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Our 2026 Sunscreen Guide – Expert Picks for Your Sun Protection Needs

Our 2026 Sunscreen Guide – Expert Picks for Your Sun Protection...

If you’re over 35, you may remember a time when sun exposure was an encouraged and...

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Hypertension’s Hidden Threat to Women

Hypertension’s Hidden Threat to Women

According to the CDC, nearly half of adults in the United States are living with...

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What is ‘maple syrup urine disease’ — and when can it turn fatal?

What is ‘maple syrup urine disease’ — and when can it turn...

Health conditions are often the cause of unusually smelly pee breaks, including...

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Virologist prescribes caution, transparency

Virologist prescribes caution, transparency

Amidst concerns by parents over a confirmed case of a pupil contracting the virus...

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Dr. Ambroise Wonkam on the sickle cell gene breakthrough

Dr. Ambroise Wonkam on the sickle cell gene breakthrough

Ambroise Wonkam has spent his career at the intersection of science and justice....

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Black Men: “Manning Up” Isn’t a Mental Health Flex

Black Men: “Manning Up” Isn’t a Mental Health Flex

Black men are dying from a mental health crisis that too often goes unseen.  As...

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The Unfinished Fight for Equity in the HIV/AIDS Response

The Unfinished Fight for Equity in the HIV/AIDS Response

Forty-five years after the first reported cases of what would become the HIV/AIDS...

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What Women Need to Know Now About Prediabetes

What Women Need to Know Now About Prediabetes

Prediabetes has become one of the most common conditions affecting women today....

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Dr. Fredrick Clark on Health, Sugar, Diabetes & Wellness: A Conversation Every Family Needs to Hear

Dr. Fredrick Clark on Health, Sugar, Diabetes & Wellness:...

What happens when medical expertise meets real-world conversation? On this powerful...

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The rare mental skill that outperforms resilience

The rare mental skill that outperforms resilience

Resilience has long been celebrated as the gold standard of emotional strength....

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Adcock Ingram referred for prosecution for allegedly overcharging kidney dialysis patients

Adcock Ingram referred for prosecution for allegedly overcharging...

Penalty of up to 10% of turnover sought after finding prices for products excessive

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Robin Quivers of The Howard Stern Show is Cancer-Free After a 14 Year Battle

Robin Quivers of The Howard Stern Show is Cancer-Free After...

On June 1st, the start of Cancer Survivor’s Month, Robin Quivers, a longtime cohost of...

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Healing Through Harmony: How Yoga reconnects humanity in an age of healthy ageing

Healing Through Harmony: How Yoga reconnects humanity in...

DAR ES SALAAM: In a world increasingly defined by stress, distraction, loneliness,...

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Legendary Jazz Musician, Sonny Rollins, Has Passed Away

Legendary Jazz Musician, Sonny Rollins, Has Passed Away

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who was known as “one of the greatest living jazz...

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Rapper Rob Base Has Died After a Private Battle With Cancer

Rapper Rob Base Has Died After a Private Battle With Cancer

Rapper Rob Base, best known for “It Takes Two” with his partner, the late DJ E-Z...

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Toxic, cancer-causing chemicals are lurking in popular hair products — inside the battle for ‘beauty justice’

Toxic, cancer-causing chemicals are lurking in popular...

There's a groundswell of entrepreneurs trying to create safer products — but no...

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Titilade Ilesanmi: Mums, When Do We Start Showing Up for Ourselves?

Titilade Ilesanmi: Mums, When Do We Start Showing Up for...

Mums, we don’t discuss enough how, somewhere along the line, we stop showing up...

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Black Wellness: Victory Over Chronic Stress, Emotional Depletion

Black Wellness: Victory Over Chronic Stress, Emotional...

There is a kind of exhaustion that sleep alone cannot fix. It is the exhaustion...

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Understanding Bipolar I in Black Communities

Understanding Bipolar I in Black Communities

In many Black families, bipolar I disorder does not look like the version most people...

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Latto Reveals She is A Really Big Mama Now

Latto Reveals She is A Really Big Mama Now

Big Mama is a real mama now that Latto confirmed she gave birth to her first child....

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Black people in England twice as likely to suffer stroke as white counterparts

Black people in England twice as likely to suffer stroke...

In-depth study also reveals patients from black African and Caribbean backgrounds...

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Prostate Cancer: How I Found Freedom Despite the Enemy Within

Prostate Cancer: How I Found Freedom Despite the Enemy...

Being diagnosed with prostate cancer can be overwhelming. Discover effective ways...

The everyday habits that can help preserve healthy ankles

The everyday habits that can help preserve healthy ankles

Maintaining a healthy ankle relies on a handful of consistent daily habits: regular...

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Fibroids Are Not Just A ‘Black Woman’s Disease’: Advocates Push Congress To Finally Take Benign Tumors Seriously

Fibroids Are Not Just A ‘Black Woman’s Disease’: Advocates...

Fibroids are noncancerous growths in or around the uterus that are common, but for...

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Latto Reveals She is A Really A Big Mama Now

Latto Reveals She is A Really A Big Mama Now

Big Mama is a real mama now that Latto confirmed she gave birth to her first child....

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Health Beat: Consider Consistent Exercise as Physical and Mental Medicine

Health Beat: Consider Consistent Exercise as Physical and...

It wasn’t until now after doing some research I realized exercise actually makes...

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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Is Now PMOS

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Is Now PMOS

Researchers have renamed polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) to polyendocrine metabolic...

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Naomi Osaka Gets Candid About Motherhood, Pressure, and Learning to Ask for Help

Naomi Osaka Gets Candid About Motherhood, Pressure, and...

Motherhood has reshaped Naomi Osaka in ways she never expected. The four-time Grand...

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IDVYNSO: A New Chapter in HIV Care

IDVYNSO: A New Chapter in HIV Care

HIV treatment has come a long way, and today, many people living with HIV are aging,...

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Bozoma Saint John On Motherhood And Mental Wellness

Bozoma Saint John On Motherhood And Mental Wellness

Bozoma Saint John does it all.  “I don’t think that, when you’re a mom, you have...

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Russia Steps Into Uganda’s Ebola Fight as Regional Fears Mount

Russia Steps Into Uganda’s Ebola Fight as Regional Fears...

Uganda is set to receive a team of Russian specialists to support its Ebola response,...

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Watch LaMonika Jones on hunger and health disparities

Watch LaMonika Jones on hunger and health disparities

The FRAC director breaks down how food insecurity drives health disparities, what...

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The vision conversation most people don’t have until it’s too late

The vision conversation most people don’t have until it’s...

Dr. Lee Katzman wants people over 40 to hear about an option earlier

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Artsy Types May Age Better: Music and Museums Act as Exercise, Slowing Age By 4% Says Study

Artsy Types May Age Better: Music and Museums Act as Exercise,...

Culture vultures who regularly take part in arts activities—such as listening to...

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Staying Steady When Health News Spikes

Staying Steady When Health News Spikes

When a new virus starts trending, the emotional reaction often hits before the facts...

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Marissa Thomas built breast cancer BaddieCon for all of us

Marissa Thomas built breast cancer BaddieCon for all of...

For Marissa Thomas, the work was never just professional. It was personal long before...

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Black Women Face Structural Barriers to Breast Cancer Detection

Black Women Face Structural Barriers to Breast Cancer Detection

Black women in the U.S. face significant barriers to early breast cancer detection,...

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Pay Me Like I Might Die — Why Black Women Are Done Discounting Their Bodies For Surrogacy [Op-Ed]

Pay Me Like I Might Die — Why Black Women Are Done Discounting...

Black women face higher maternal death rates. Expecting them to be surrogates for...

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5 parenting mistakes that can shorten your kid’s life

5 parenting mistakes that can shorten your kid’s life

A pediatrician revealed common mistakes parents make that can seriously harm their...

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Facing our Black mental health crisis

Facing our Black mental health crisis

Dr. Cerina Fairfax. Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen. Shayla Elkins, 5; Kayla Pugh,...

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Health Ministry Moves to Support Thousands Experiencing Menopause, Andropause

Health Ministry Moves to Support Thousands Experiencing...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is developing a national menopause and andropause...

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Summer’s coming, and data show measles cases are rising

Summer’s coming, and data show measles cases are rising

      As summer vacations nears and the opportunity for travel increases, measles...

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From doom-scrolling to Ozempic; the surprising ways modern life is damaging your vision

From doom-scrolling to Ozempic; the surprising ways modern...

From screen fatigue and GLP-1 side effects to supercharged pollen seasons; the 21st...

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Understanding and Diagnosing High Blood Pressure

Understanding and Diagnosing High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure, often called the silent killer, can lead to severe health issues....

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DiSC Health: 3 Health Tips of the Week – Boost Your Disc Health: Run Smarter, Sleep Better, and Energize Your Spine Today!

DiSC Health: 3 Health Tips of the Week – Boost Your Disc...

Learn how to enhance your spinal health with three essential tips: smarter running,...

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SURINAME-HEALTH-Doctors urge media to be more careful when publishing material on HIV/AIDS

SURINAME-HEALTH-Doctors urge media to be more careful when...

PARAMARIBO,  Suriname, May 13, CMC- Six  medical  ... You are unauthorized to view...

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Prioritizing Mental Wellness as Generational Healing, expert Michelle Bryant Johnson explains

Prioritizing Mental Wellness as Generational Healing, expert...

    Mindset expert Michelle Bryant Johnson has spent more than 25 years helping...

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Kardea Brown on Love, Diabetes, and Reimagining Tradition

Kardea Brown on Love, Diabetes, and Reimagining Tradition

Type 2 diabetes is a familiar thread in many Black families, often woven through...

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Myositis Hits More Than Your Muscles

Myositis Hits More Than Your Muscles

Myositis is a chronic inflammation of the muscles that can stop you from being able...

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Is your sauna habit damaging your health?

Is your sauna habit damaging your health?

Contrast therapy is the wellness ritual of the moment, but growing research suggests...

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Hidden Anxiety Among Black Children and Teens

Hidden Anxiety Among Black Children and Teens

Anxiety among Black children and teens often goes unnoticed. The signs are there,...

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Biovac gets another $128m for vaccine expansion from French lenders

Biovac gets another $128m for vaccine expansion from French...

Cape Town project aimed at reducing Africa’s dependence on imported vaccines

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Dr. Kisha Davis on the Black maternal health crisis

Dr. Kisha Davis on the Black maternal health crisis

Black women are dying in childbirth at rates that no policy memo or awareness campaign...

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2,848 women attend cervical and breast cancer screening in Arusha   

2,848 women attend cervical and breast cancer screening...

ARUSHA: 2,848 women have benefited from cervical and breast cancer screening services...

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Trust Your Gut: Community Event Focused on Digestive Health Set for May 16

Trust Your Gut: Community Event Focused on Digestive Health...

By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times A free, educational brunch event designed to...

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