Michelle Obama and “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon turned the White House into a playground to promote the first lady’s “Let’s Move!” fitness campaign.
Mrs. Obama and Fallon did pushups and twirled hula hoops. They competed at dodge ball and tug-of-war. And the first lady triumphed over the comedian in a climactic potato sack race.
After a [...]
The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer’s research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging baby-boom generation.
Not all the spending must wait for approval from Congress: Under the plan being announced Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health will devote [...]
Diagnosed with mental illness, Nathaniel Ayers, later portrayed by Jamie Foxx in the movie “The Soloist,” became an accomplished musician.
Black Americans are far more likely than their white countrymen to be labeled schizophrenic, one of psychiatry’s most serious and intractable diagnoses. But a new study suggests that psychiatric bias, compounded by the squishiness of diagnostic [...]
On this National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we have greater opportunity than ever before to reverse the HIV epidemic in Black America and the nation as a whole.
Today, we have a National HIV/AIDS Strategy that directs the nation to focus its prevention efforts on communities at greatest risk, including African-Americans – the racial group most [...]
Heart disease is the leading killer of Ohio residents, and it’s even worse for black men and women.
Experts say this disparity between whites and blacks exists because of a lack of education about the disease as well as a lack of access to health care, fresh food and places to exercise.
A national group called Close [...]
