Category : Parenting/ Health

Immunosuppression: Is Your Medication Making You Sick?

Your immune system is like a fine-tuned machine. When things are working correctly, all the parts are in play. You have strength. You have efficiency. You’re able to stay healthy and not fall ill due to pesky viruses and bacteria. If your immune sys...

Rapper Bow Wow Shares Hospitalization Visit from Lean Addiction

In a recent interview, Bow Wow revealed that he was hospitalized due to his drug addiction, and explained why he is determined to ‘get right.’ The 36-year-old rapper joined The Art of Dialogue podcast to discuss his recent addition to Le...

Bow Wow Opens Up About His Latest Hospitalization: “I was losing my mind”

You’re Not Ashy, You Have Ezcema…

For all the jokes made about “ashy” Black skin, Eczema is nothing to laugh at for many people in the Black community, especially when they are still disproportionately affected. Also known as atopic dermatitis, eczema is an inflammatory skin conditi...

7 Exercises You Can Do While Sitting Down

Sure you don’t want to be fat, unhealthy and overweight, but let’s face it: each of us enjoys being a little lazy sometimes. And don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with that! But here’s how to have both your lazy...

5 Popular, Ineffective, Fad Diets You Should Never Consider

Staying fit and healthy is the number one goal for most people. Next in line is to lose weight. However, many take these newfound goals to the extreme and will literally try anything to achieve them. What’s even more daunting is the fact that busine...

Frontotemporal Dementia: A Neurologist Shares What You Need to Know

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a rare and progressive form of dementia that primarily affects people between the ages of 40 to 65 years old. With the recent diagnosis of Wendy Williams, BlackDoctor.org sat down with Donna Newsome, M.D., a neurolog...

Hidden Gems in Black History: J.P Morgan’s Library Curated By a Black Woman

Fun fact: Belle da Costa Greene, a Black lady, led and filled this library with books after hiding her race (racial passing) to enter New York’s elite society and support her family when her father (the first Black Harvard graduate) left. One...

10 Serious Reasons You Get Nosebleeds With A Headache

Generally, headaches and nosebleeds don’t overlap. It’s even typical for doctors to treat them as two separate issues if you have them together. However, there are a few cases when having a headache simultaneously as a nosebleed means you should be...

Is a Cure for Alzheimer’s on the Horizon?

ad Alzheimer’s affects all of us. If you don’t know someone personally who has it, you’ve probably heard of what it does. A progressive neurological disease, Alzheimer’s can turn a sharp, healthy mind into a shadow of its former self. Nothing quite...

8 Things You Need To Know For A Stress-Free Tax Season

Tax season is here! Who’s ready for a big refund check? This girl! However, let me be honest… As a new business owner and full-time freelancer, I’m a bit nervous about filing this year. I had a lot of changes happen from moving and buying start-up eq...

Oldest Living American, 114-Year-Old Woman, Shares Secret to Long Life

(Photo by Ethel Harrison) Elizabeth Francis, a Louisiana native who now lives in Houston, Texas, is 114 years old — and has just been crowned the oldest living American. To put her longevity into perspective, Francis was born 11 years before women wo...

BREAKING: Men Found Guilty of Murder of Hip-Hip Icon Jam Master Jay!

(Photo by Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images) After over 20 years it seems like justice has arrived in the hip-hop community. Two men were just found guilty of murder in the 2002 killing of Jam Master Jay, the trailblazing DJ of the groundbreaking hip-hop...

What Is Chronic Sinusitis, and How Is it Treated?

Stuffy, sneezing, miserable: folks plagued by chronic sinusitis know the feeling all too well. Experts at University of Cincinnati Health say it’s also an all-too-common affliction, affecting an estimated 14.6 percent of Americans. What is chr...

Hidden Gems in Black History: Black Wall Street

During the early 20th century, African Americans established thriving economic and commercial hubs in several cities, including Chicago, Tulsa, and Durham. Each neighborhood had its own nickname reflecting its prominence as a financial boomtown, but...