All about Glaucoma

Blindness affect blacks more frequently than whites and Hispanics.  Cataracts and glaucoma are serious problems for African Americans, causing over half of the cases of blindness in African Americans.
Glaucoma is a group of diseases that can harm the eye’s optic nerve and cause vision loss and blindness. The optic nerve is a bundle of more [...]

All about Diabetes

You can get diabetes if your body does not use insulin right. Insulin changes the sugars in food into energy. Type 1 diabetes happens when your body destroys its own cells that make insulin. Type 2 diabetes happens when your body doesn’t make enough insulin. Diabetes affects women of all ages. African Americans are almost [...]

All about Cervical Cancer

The cervix connects the uterus (where a baby grows) to the vagina (the birth canal). Cervical cancer is a disease in which cancer cells are found in the tissues of the cervix. Before cancer cells are found on the cervix, abnormal cells start to appear. Cancer that goes untreated starts to grow and spread more [...]

All about Cataracts

Blindness affects blacks more frequently than whites and Hispanics.  Cataracts and glaucoma are serious problems for African Americans, causing over half of the cases of blindness in African Americans.
A cataract is a clouding of the eye’s lens. By age 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery.  [...]

All about Breast Cancer

Women get breast cancer when cells in the breast don’t grow right and a tumor forms. Getting a mammogram (x-ray of the breast) can help find the cancer early. This gives a woman more treatment options and makes it more likely she will survive the cancer.
African American women are more likely than all other women [...]

All about Asthma

Asthma is a disease of the lung airways. With asthma, the airways are inflamed (swollen) and react easily to certain “triggers,” like viruses, smoke, dust, mold, animal hair, roaches, or pollen. When the inflamed airways react, they get narrow and make it hard to breathe.
Common asthma symptoms are:

coughing, especially at night
wheezing — a whistling or [...]