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5 Reasons to call the Aging Institute

Life expectancy in the United States continues to rise. Adults are now living into their 80s and 90s. Older adults are choosing to stay...

Research ­Opportunity for Seniors

Do you have goals to lose weight and move more easily? If so, you may want to join others, ages 60-75, in a study...

CTSI Research Participant Registry

The Research Participant Registry is a database of people who have volunteered to consider participation in research studies. This participation can be for themselves...

Study: 'Biggest Loser' contestants have slower metabolisms

CHICAGO (AP) _ A new study has found that many competitors on NBC's ``The Biggest Loser'' leave the show with a slower metabolism, making...

No need to be embarrassed to discuss low testosterone

There are many topics in our society that are considered taboo. Though a fact of life, people just don't talk about them. One of...

Time for focus on children's health

Healthy lifestyles are learned at a young age. Like everything else, what you eat related to health, and it disproportionately impacts poor, African-American children. It's...

Don't think AIDS happens to people like you? Neither did she

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) _ Sarah Thomas found out from a stranger. It was 1996, and after donating blood in Baltimore, a Red Cross worker called...

The importance of health literacy

As public schools lose funding from debt-ridden state budgets, school administrators are being forced to cut "non-essentials" such as the number of teachers, classes...

The truth about diabetes…Doug Banks’ death puts disease in fresh spotlight

Something was clearly wrong with Doug Banks when he appeared at V-103’s splashy booth at the Black Women’s Expo two weekends ago at the...

Diabetes pervasive among Blacks

  As rampant as diabetes is in our community, it is well past time we took some serious action. Diabetes is a disease that affects...

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