Wanda Sykes Gets Breast Cancer Surgery

 

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Karen Wallace, JD: Unemployment Benefits and Health Insurance–How We Can Do Things Better

 

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Overweight Baby Sitter Falls On Top of Child and Smothers Him to Death

 

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Professor Says Your Kids Can Catch Diseases from McDonald’s Playgrounds

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Global Warming Linked to Famine in Africa

by Shani K. Collins, Your Black World 

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Black Scientists Get Less Funding than White Ones

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Montel Williams Keeps Addressing the Medical Marijuana Issue

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E. Coli Outbreak leads to major beef recall

by Kirsten West-Savali, Your Black World

Publix Super Markets, Inc., Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., and Kroger Co. have all announced voluntary recalls on beef products packaged on July 23, 2011, with a Freeze by date of August 12, 2011.

The E. Coli threat was found during a routine inspection conducted by the Ohio Department of Agricultureof a Dodge City, Kansas slaughterhouse. In the wake of the findings, National Beef Packing Co. LLC is recalling approximately 60,424 pounds of ground beef products.

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New Face of Chimpanzee Mauling Victim is Revealed

  

This might be considered a miracle of modern medicine.  A Connecticut woman was mauled two years ago by a chimpanzee and had her face disfigured.  After two years of surgeries, doctors are finally revealing the woman’s new face to the public.

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Are For Profit Universities Doing a Disservice to Minorities?

By JasmineHughes

Selected for their potential to succeed or for their potential to become indebted? Many are now questioning the targeted recruiting practices of for-profit colleges.

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Survey: More than Half of All African Americans Know of a Friend or Relative with HIV

 

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University – Scholarship in Action 

According to a new survey at Your Black World, it was found that over half (56.3%) of all African American respondents have a friend or relative who they know to have HIV.  The number was higher among black women (58.7%) than black men (51.2%). 

 

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Doctors Group Says Hotdogs are as Lethal as Cigarettes?

by Ayvaunn Penn, Your Black World

Whether you are young or old, the findings of The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine may have you thinking twice before you eat a hot dog. The group recently showcased a new billboard on Monday close to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway that features a cigarette box filled with hot dogs. The pack has a skull and crossbones on it, and the billboard reads “Warning: Hot dogs can wreck your health.” The purpose of the billboard is to make the public aware of the connection between colorectal cancer and hot dogs.

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Psychology Today Finally Apologizes for Scientist Who Says Black Women are Less Attractive Than Others

 

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Mother Shoots It out With Police over Daughter’s Medication

 

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Will.i.am Thinks that Condoms are “Tacky”

Will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas seems to think that women who own condoms are “tacky”.

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Which of the 5 Dominant Personality Traits Are You?

From the UK Telegraph

Open

Defined by an inventive and curious nature, open people generally have an appreciation for art, adventure, unusual ideas, curiosity, and variety of experience. They can be highly emotional.

They are sensitive to beauty and tend to be, compared to closed people, more creative and more aware of their feelings. They are more likely to hold unconventional beliefs.

Dead NFL Player Dave Duerson would Not Have Qualified for Full Disability Benefits

By ALAN SCHWARZ  Published: May 4, 2011

BOSTON — As the football world absorbs Monday’s news that Dave Duerson had the football-related brain damage he suspected before fatally shooting himself in February, an overlooked detail has emerged: had Duerson reached out for help via the N.F.L.’s disability plan, which he helped administer, his neurological injuries would not have qualified for a high level of benefit, if any at all.