Black women more likely to deliver premature babies

Research involving more than 368,000 births in Missouri concludes that Black women are more than twice as likely to deliver babies prematurely than white women.  Normal pregnancies last about 40 weeks.  The study looked at women who gave birth after 20 to 34...

Looking Deeper for Cancer

Imagine your genes are like a chemical computer code—and the order of that code, all those genetic ones and zeroes, determine whether you’re healthy…or whether you have or will get cancer. The National Human Genome Research Institute has given...