The federal government is set to resume sending out at-home COVID-19 test kits to the public. The resumption of the program comes after a rise in hospitalization and deaths due to a new variant.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved two new COVID-19 boosters for distribution. The CDC is meeting to discuss the updated Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shots, designed to protect against the new EG.5 variant.
Authorities are concerned about the street drug "tranq," which users report has led to their flesh rotting. The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention have reported a sharp rise in overdose deaths due to the drug, which is a tranquilizer used for horses combined with the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
Just as the American people began accepting that the Coronavirus is here to stay and Monkeypox might become problematic going forward, polio has reemerged in New York City thirty years after the last recorded case in Gotham.
The CDC, one of the leading voices on handling the virus, has suggested that COVID-19 isolation be cut from 10 to 5 days, but only if the subject is asymptomatic.
In the Queens rapper's rant, she claimed that a friend of her cousin had issues in his private parts after taking the vaccine but the CDC says not so fast.
Black churches across the nation will have more information on HIV/AIDS, and they have the NAACP to thank. The nation’s oldest civil rights organization developed a manual for church leaders seeking to educated their parishioners. Pastor Timothy W. Sloan of Houston, expressed concerned over his congregation’s lack of knowledge about the virus, which has become […]
The public will soon be able to take HIV tests in the comfort of their own homes. On Tuesday (July 3), the Federal Drug Administration approved home HIV tests, results of which will be determined in 20-40 minutes. Last week, the Center for Disease Control announced the release of free home testing kits in 24 drug […]
When the CDC sent out a report that seemed to say that nearly ½ of all Black women were infected with genital herpes people were shocked and outraged by the damning data. Now however the CDC is clarifying their information. 48% of the Black women they tested were positive for exposure to herpes but not […]
The Center For Disease Control has released alarming new test results that claim 48% of Black women between ages 14 and 49 have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), a lifelong and incurable infection that can cause recurrent and painful genital sores. The medical group released a press release Tuesday detailing their findings. According to […]
According to a Center for Disease Control and Prevention study, the Southern half of the United States has the highest AIDS related death rate, surpassing any other section of the United States. Approximately 46% of new AIDS cases in the year 2007 were from the South, beating the average set by the Northeast (25%) and […]
An Earth-shattering study by the USDA has it predicting that an unprecedented number of children will use food stamps at one time in their lives. Nearly 28.4 million Americans partake in the Department of Agriculture’s federal food stamp program for low-income families. That figure allowed the federal agency to calculate that nearly half of all, […]
