By Mylika Scatliffe, AFRO Health Writer In 2020 the World Health Organization declared the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. The goal was to recognize the significant contributions of nurses to health care, the risks associated with nursing shortages and the challenges inherent to the profession. The goals turned out to be most […]
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Skin cancer doesn’t care about the color of your skin
By Mylika Scatliffe, AFRO Women’s Health Writer February is National Cancer Prevention month. Dr. Ashani Weeraratna is a leading, pioneering Johns Hopkins melanoma researcher and wants everyone to know that melanoma does not discriminate. People of color have traditionally been conditioned to think skin cancer is a White person’s disease, so largely goes ignored in […]
