Health and Wellness

Angelina Jolie found out that she had a faulty gene called BRCA1 that drastically increased her risk of breast and ovarian cancer. "Drastically" is the word: she discovered that she had an 87% chance of getting breast cancer and decided to have a double mastectomy.  Jolie published an op-ed in the

In the last 40 years, 70,000 American coal miners have died from black lung disease. Though the mining industry and the federal government have provided the victims and their families with over $45 billion, it does not compensate for the fact that these same entities have known for more than two

Around the world, young people between the ages of 13 and 24 make up 40% of new HIV infections; in the United States alone, one in three new HIV infections will affect our country's youth. Despite these harsh realities, young people have a crucial role to play in the fight to end this pandemic once

Earlier this month British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plead guilty to inappropriately marketing its antidepressant drug Paxil as well as Wellbutrin; for withholding information on the cardiovascular risks of Avandia (a diabetes drug that has been shown to cause heart attacks); and