Black Woman Becomes the First Doctor to Cure Cancer in Mice Using Nanoparticles

Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green has become the first person to successfully cure cancer in mice using laser-activated nanoparticles, according to Black Culture News.

Unlike traditional cancer treatments, Green’s revolutionary and unique nanoparticle technology, which was found to successfully cure cancer after testing on mice within 15 days, does not require chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. Green received a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to expand her nanoparticle cancer treatment research.

Green’s interest in cancer treatment stems from witnessing the death of her aunt, Ora Lee, who suffered from cancer, and her uncle, General Lee Smith, who also was diagnosed with cancer and experienced the negative side effects of chemotherapy treatment.

Green is, not surprisingly, highly educated. In her pursuit to fight cancer she obtained her bachelor’s degree in physics and optics from Alabama A&M University and later earned her master of science in physics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, both of which she received full scholarships for. After earning her degrees, she transitioned to the Comprehensive Cancer Center for five years and the Department of Pathology for one year, according to afrotech.com.

Currently, Green’s Ora Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation, the nonprofit she founded in memory of her aunt, is continuing to fight cancer using laser-activated nanoparticles and focusing on its mission to make cancer treatment accessible, affordable, and effective. She devotes time to helping young black students as well.

Strides in cancer treatments/cures are very important. According to the American Cancer Society, in the U.S. alone, an estimated 606,520 people will die from cancer in 2020. This equates to 1,660 people dying of cancer each day in 2020. Approximately 69% of people diagnosed with cancer between the years 2009 and 2015 were alive five years after their diagnosis. This is higher than people who were diagnosed with cancer between the years 1975 and 1977. Between these years, 49 out of 100 people, or 49%, were alive five years later.

 

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Model, Restaurateur and Author, B. Smith Dead at Age 70 of Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

Barbara Elaine Smith, professionally known as B. Smith, died Saturday, February 22, 2020 of Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, according to her family.

The 2010 Black Enterprise’s Women of Power Legacy Award Recipient, was known for hosting her own television show, owning high-end restaurants and being an esteemed published author.

As a young girl raised in rural Pennsylvania, she sold lemonade, magazines, fund-raised and had a paper route. After begging her parents to attend modeling school, she picked up beauty skills and then cold called magazines to pitch herself to editors. Smith went on to became one of the first African American women to grace the cover of Mademoiselle in 1976. From there, her modeling career took off, bringing in a living that allowed her to follow an entrepreneurial love of cooking.

Her signature tagline, “Whatever you do, do it with style!” has been on display at Smithsonian The National Museum of African American History and Culture.

 

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Won't We Do It! NAACP Image Awards Weekend Proves Black Glamour Is Winning

You know, there’s a very good reason the NAACP Image Awards ceremony takes place in late February—and it’s not simply because it’s Black History Month. It’s because, after far too many awards seasons in which we are only marginally included—including this past one—at the Image Awards, we get the last word, as…

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Meet The Three Brothers Who Are Launching A Black-Owned Kentucky Bourbon Brand

Three brothers are planning to launch their own Kentucky bourbon through their company Brough Brothers Distillery in honor of their surname.

According to BlackBusiness.com, it will be one of the only black-owned distilleries in the country and the first black-owned business of its kind in the state of Kentucky. The trio of brothers—Victor, Christian, and Bryson Yarbrough—went on their own separate paths as they progressed through life but came back together to start this business venture. Their goal was to create their own products to make an impact locally and globally.

Victor, who has been abroad in England for the last 10 years, initially came up with the idea of bottling wines and other drinks in the U.K. He and his brothers are hoping to expand their reach to other areas by exporting their products while also making them available locally.

The distillery, which will be built on 2,200 square feet, will house the Kentucky bourbon production as well as a taste-testing room. They have chosen to establish it on the West End as it has shown great potential for revitalization.

“Realistically we’re going to be producing gin and vodka as well as bourbon,” Victor, the CEO of Brough Brothers Bourbon, told WHAS11. “We’re doing our job to help promote Kentucky outside of the U.S.”

“It’s a fantastic feeling but for us, it’s all about giving back to the community,” he continued. “We want to give back to the city just from our knowledge of pretty much going around the world. We wanted to be able to focus all that knowledge back into the city and give back.”

The company, whose bourbon is currently distributed through Amazon in the United Kingdom, expects to officially launch in Louisville next month, according to Louisville Business First. The brothers say they hope to hire four people at the distillery once it’s up and running.

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Black Doctors Unite To Open The First Black-Owned Urgent Care Center In Chicago’s Southside

Last spring, a group of black doctors, Reuben C. Rutland, MD, Airron Richardson, MD, Michael A. McGee, MD, and former NFL player Dr. Gregory Primus, teamed up to open the first black-owned urgent care center in Chicago’s Southside Hyde Park neighborhood.

“We live in the neighborhood and recognize when our children were injured or sick there was no urgent care nearby,” Dr. Airron Richardson, co-founder of the urgent care facility told ABC7Chicago. “You had to go to a completely different neighborhood several miles away.”

Premier Health Urgent Care looks to reduce the lack of access to adequate health services.  The center wants to provide the community proper access to basic services while also including other important services, mental health and wellness.  Many times individuals go straight to the local hospitals for basic health services which often can be the most expensive and most inefficient way of delivering healthcare.

“So you have the choice of waiting eight hours in the emergency department for something minor, or coming to an urgent care and waiting 10 or 15 minutes and getting it done,” Dr. Rutland explained to ABC7Chicago.

Premier Health wants to be an affordable healthcare source for the community treating everything from the common cold to bruises and sprains.

“We are happy to open an urgent care in Hyde Park because the community needs it. I see so many urban professionals who either delay or go without care because of time constraints. No one has 8 hours to wait in the emergency department for a minor illness or the flexibility to wait 3 weeks because their primary care doctor is booked solid. We are here to help fill that gap,” says Dr. Rutland in The Chicago Crusader. “We are not in competition with the doctors’ offices or the emergency department. We are a supplement to them both, to help relieve the stress on those two facilities.”

 

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