Category: Medical Minute

Medical Minute: Gastroenteritis

According to an inside source, incarcerated rapper T.I., real name Clifford Harris Jr., is not among those inmates sickened by a gastrointestinal bug that's...

Medical Minute: Light skinned blacks more prone to getting skin cancer

Past medical studies comparing skin cancer rates among Caucasians and blacks have shown that cases among whites were proportionately higher due to their lack...

Obama Reverses His Stance On Swine Flu Pandemic

On Monday Barack Obama made another in a series of embarrassing goofs by suggesting that the swine flu pandemic was "not a cause for...

Medical Minute: Swine Flu

The swine flu outbreak in Mexico is caused by a deadly new strain, or variant, of a particular strain of influenza virus that is...

Medical Minute: “Brown Bagging” Your Meds

Loyal reader Beverly Garrett is a friend in my head -- as Wendy Williams would say. Bev emailed me today to suggest a...

Medical Minute: Why Only One Boater Survived

Yesterday, loyal member KaraZ requested a follow-up post on the four missing boaters after she read reports that three of the men removed their...