Cancer

The CONNECT initiative aims to create a statewide network of colorectal cancer screening resources to help prevent a common yet highly preventable disease.

A partnership between Dell Medical School and CommUnityCare caused rates of lifesaving screening among low-income and uninsured patients to shoot up. Now, program leaders want to scale the initiative across Texas.

Austin partially owns a coal-powered plant in Fayette County. Advocates say coal ash there is not properly stored, potentially getting into the water and land.

Cervical cancer, which is largely preventable, and if caught early, highly treatable, has an outsized impact on Black women's mortality, a January study finds.

Lawmakers also increased the allowable level of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. But not by much.

The cancer charity whose yellow wristbands became a global brand under founder Lance Armstrong is seeking to reinvent itself, years after donations and…

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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with entertainment attorney Dr. Tracy Randall, Ph.D. The Grammy-nominated…

Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged Sunday to work with President Donald Trump in the fight against cancer, a cause Biden took up in his final year in…