Loading the player… Grieving a loved one is incredibly difficult under any circumstance. For those doing it in the midst of COVID-19, that grief is compounded by the stress of planning and paying for funeral services in a pandemic world. In late March, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that it will provide funeral-related… Read More »
Another day, another Georgina Rodríguez pic raising the mercury levels on Instagram. This time it is Cristiano Ronaldo’s girlfriend in a sultry black string bikini for Sportweek Cover and we cannot keep calm. The supermodel has taken the game a notch higher by giving us a preview of the magazine cover and it is blessing netizens’ screens online. Rodríguez… Read More »
Dramatic declines in HIV diagnoses in San Francisco have been attributed to testing, treatment and PrEP, but the declining Black population in the city is an unexamined factor, Dr Jade Pagkas-Bather of the University of Chicago and colleagues argue in the December issue of The Lancet HIV. There has been a 22% fall in San… Read More »
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28, 2020 — Many aspects of daily living can trigger stress. But for Black women, everyday stressors plus racial discrimination and a specific genetic mutation may increase the risk for obesity, diabetes and heart disease, researchers say. The EBF1 mutation is found in roughly 2% of Black women and 7% of white people.… Read More »