Health

By Roy S. Johnson Charles Barkley called with some news. Barkley wanted to share his intention to donate $1 million each to ALS research in Alabama in the name of former Auburn teammate Gary Godfrey, who […]

By Savannah Tryens-Fernandes “Sunshine! Water! Dirt!” students yell out at Black Belt Community Foundation Head Start in Selma when their teacher asks what their garden will need to grow. The class of ten students that range […]

by Simon Druker The state agency had previously had a sobriety restriction policy, denying HCV medication for any person who had consumed any alcohol or illicit drugs within the previous six months. Monday’s agreement ensures anyone in […]

by Tarshua Carter Williamson On Monday, 54-year-old R&B legend Al B. Sure, whose real name is Albert Joseph Brown III, shared that he had recently woken up from a two-month-long coma. He shared this news via […]

By The Associated Press An Alabama boy who weighed less than a pound at birth after his mother went into labor at only 21 weeks and one day of gestation has been certified as the world’s […]

By Savannah Tryens-Fernandes  As Americans head into the holiday season, a rapidly intensifying flu season is straining hospitals already overburdened with patients sick from other respiratory infections. The Children’s Hospital Association, which includes Children’s of Alabama, […]

by Marcus Williams, BDO Staff Writer About 90% of Americans eat more sodium than is recommended for a healthy diet. Why is this a problem? Too much sodium increases a person’s risk for high blood pressure. […]

By Howard Koplowitz  Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and 21 of his counterparts across the country petitioned the Biden administration on Thursday to repeal the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, claiming the policy is “neither […]

Menopause is a time when a woman’s body goes through major changes. Some may be due to the natural transformations that come with aging. Others are produced when a woman stops generating the hormones that […]

by Derrick Lane Millions of Americans with back pain take powerful and potentially addictive opioid painkillers. But in a new survey, many say the drugs provide only limited relief and they worry about taking them. According […]