Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegrated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...

(US Air Force Historical Support Office via AP) This 1940’s family handout photograph shows retired U.S. Army Nurse Corps Major Nancy Leftenant-Colon, at center. Leftenant-Colon, who was the first ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

These Insider Deals are focused on self-care and jewelry. The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, died Jan. 8. Here, an American flag is presented to Leftenant-Colon ...

Larger pediatric studies are needed to clarify causal relationships and assess clinical outcomes more accurately. A total of 92 patients (median age, 16; boys, 53.3%; Black/African American, 32.6%) ...

“What it probably felt like to my mom was being burned on the inside out,” Wanda Havard said on Snapped of her mother’s death at the hands of her dialysis nurse, Kimberly Saenz ... what she described, ...

It was early in her nursing career at the Clinton Infirmary where she broke the color line — became the first black registered nurse to be hired in East Feliciana Parish, she said. It was 1975 ...