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Calvin Roger Trent Jr., a nationally recognized expert and advocate for substance abuse prevention, treatment and recovery, passed away on Saturday, March 28, 2020 at his home in Detroit. He was 77. He was born the eldest of Frances (Burton) and Calvin Trent’s four children on April 5, 1942 in Detroit. He spent much of…

Each year during the month of October we turn our focus to bringing awareness to breast cancer in women, but now with the news of Mathew Knowles‘ diagnosis, we are alarmed by the cases of breast cancer in Black men. Breast cancer is a disease that primarily affects women and occurs when cells in the…

Originally in the restaurant, retail, and hotel management industries, Jeannine Blackman is now a clinic nurse manager at Mercy Care. rolling out sat down with her to hear about how Mercy Care has played its part in the healthcare industry. Describe a typical work day/week. Currently, I work as a clinic nurse manager supervising LPNs…

During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, rolling out is helping women (and men) understand the complicated aspects of the second most common form of cancer, breast cancer. According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, cancer is a broad term for a class of diseases characterized by abnormal cells that grow and invade healthy cells in the body.…

All it takes is a second for someone to care and save a life. This recently happened to Imamu Baraka, a Baltimore resident, and a mental health therapist. As he was walking home from work, he saw three security guards from University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus (UMMC) pushing a woman in a wheelchair, clad…

Dr. Lynette Wilson-Phillips of Decatur Pediatric Group was excited to announce the rollout of “Kids Doc on Wheels” a collaborative partnership. The program came out of her lifelong mission to heal and help the local community.

Dr. R. Stephen Green, superintendent of DeKalb County Schools, was excited to announce the roll out of “Kids Doc on Wheels” a collaborative partnership. He offered remarks regarding the program.

The Dekalb County School District in Georgia has unveiled a new way to keep students healthy. It is called the Kids Doc on Wheels and is part of a public and private partnership for a healthier Dekalb. The bus is a mobile doctor’s office that is state of the art. At almost 40 feet long,…

Obamacare remains the law of the land. In the early morning hours on July 27, 2017, the GOP senators failed to vote for a “skinny repeal” of Obamacare. The key vote came from Republican Senator John McCain who decided to vote “no” on the bill. He was joined by fellow Republicans Susan Collins and Lisa…

The presidency of Donald Trump has once again proven the business mogul to also be a savvy New York con man. The recent Congressional action to repeal and replace Obamacare was met with cheers by the GOP establishment. Congressmen were actually called to order after the slim margin of victory of 217 – 213 to…

After weeks of negotiations to try to repeal Obamacare, the Republican-controlled Congress has pulled its controversial American Healthcare Act, presumably at the request of President Donald Trump. It is being reported by media outlet CNN that Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan spoke at 3 p.m. and the decision was made to pull…

President Donald Trump and his Republican cohorts failed to eliminate Obamacare. For the past seven years, the Republicans have attempted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act that was implemented by President Obama in 2010. With Trump as president and the Republicans controlling the House and Senate, it appeared that they would have a…

There is a silent epidemic sweeping America and it affects the black community the hardest. This epidemic is autism and what is known as the Autism Spectrum Disorders, ASD. This condition is a developmental disability of severe chronic conditions due to mental and/or physical impairments. For people with developmental disabilities, major life activities such as…

Thomas Eric Duncan is the only person to have died from Ebola in the United States. The care that Duncan received at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, from all accounts, showed that he received inadequate service. Duncan, despite telling hospital staff that he had been to Africa and was running a fever, was discharged and diagnosed with what…

Over the past year, mental health care has recently been in the news mostly for negative reasons. But in 2013 and 2014, there has been an uptick in the number of incidents where a black mentally unstable individual met with a violent death. From the Philadelphia Naval Yard shootings, to the schizophrenic mother shot by…

After the failure of launching healthcare.gov back in October 2013, which was built by CGI Federal, a subsidiary of CGI Group, Republicans went into immediate attack mode on President Obama. As the website’s launch was a total disaster with an overload of error messages and slow speeds for weeks after the launch, the Republicans insisted…

Having information on your health at the tips of your fingers sounds great, right? Well, we have found four apps that do just that and more – from simple symptom checking to finding out more information on medications prescribed by doctors and even keeping diabetes in check right from your phone. While these apps can’t…

There are just a few months left before the November presidential elections. The choice has been made for many by voting in simple terms — Democrat or Republican and Obama or Romney. However, what has been obscure to most, is that these two individuals actually are more alike than they are different. We know about…

Every day, 152 people are infected with HIV — half of those diagnosed are black. Phill Wilson opens the film, ENDGAME: AIDS in Black America by revealing those shocking numbers about the disproportionate number of people afflicted with AIDS/HIV in the black community. The two-hour film follows the lives of blacks who have been affected…