Help Cure Sickle Cell Disease Joining Be The Match may be the most important thing you do this year Sickle cell disease is a debilitating illness causing chronic and extreme pain, fatigue, swelling, infection, and more for the approximately 100,000 Americans living with it today. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sickle cell disease disproportionally affects the…
God Told Me I Wouldn’t Die From Breast Cancer And Then It Came Back As told to Veronica Wells-Puoane of NoSugarNoCreamMag.com In 2009, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. As far as battling life-threatening illnesses go, my mother got through her first round of breast cancer, relatively easily. But late last year, after telling her that they just saw…
American Red Cross: Sickle Cell Strong Recently, the American Red Cross presented the “Sickle Cell Strong” Instagram LIVE event, hosted by Rashan Ali and featuring sickle cell advocates singer Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, NFL coach Bobby Engram and his wife, Deanna, as well as Red Cross medical director Dr. Yvette Miller to help raise awareness of sickle cell disease and the…
Kyrzayda Rodriguez By Ta-ning Connai While watching American Idol one night back in 2009, I heard the most beautiful song; a song full of enough power to put the meaning of life and death in its proper perspective. ‘Live Like We’re Dying’ was about waking up to the reality that life is short, tomorrow may never come and that it…
Matthew Simmons/Getty Images By Sharee Silerio Beloved comedian, actor, author, screenwriter and voice-over artist Charlie Murphy will be remembered as one of the greatest comics of the past two decades. Continue Reading Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York and was raised by his mother, a telephone operator, and his stepdad. His father, Charles Edward Murphy, was a transit police…
Breast cancer researcher Dr. Joy McDaniel in the laboratory at Huntsville’s HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. McDaniel’s work may lead to a new targeted therapy for deadly triple negative breast cancer. (HudsonAlpha photo) Written by Tiffani Greenaway of MyMommyVents.com Dr. Joy McDaniel was pursuing her PhD when her she lost her best friend. At just 24 years old, breast cancer took…
Dr. Lavonda Brown, Photo courtesy of LSU Louisiana State University (LSU) faculty member Dr. Lavonda Brown is using technology to predict Alzheimer’s disease. Continue Reading According to LSU’s website, Brown started working at the university in January of this year as an assistant professor in the Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Previously, Dr. Brown worked as a research assistant…
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