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Dr. Ricky Rozay Gives Advice To Weezy

Posted 03.29.2013 | Black Voices

As Lil Wayne continues to recover from his recent series of seizures, the rapper’s close friend, Rick Ross has offered the Young Money MC some advic...

Lil Wayne Released From Hospital

AP | Posted 05.18.2013 | Celebrity

NEW YORK — Lil Wayne is out of the hospital, according to his Young Money associate Mack Maine. Mack Maine told his Twitter followers on Monday...

Abusing Legal System to Discriminate Against the Disabled

Liane Kupferberg Carter | Posted 05.14.2013 | Impact
Liane Kupferberg Carter

I'm not laughing. In fact, I'm fuming. A developmentally disabled 42 year old man named Robert Schiavelli was slapped with two court summonses for laughing too loudly, because his neighbor Daniel O'Hanian complained to the police that Schiavelli was "disturbing the peace." Why was he laughing?

WATCH: Shocking Treatment To Rare Form Of Epilepsy Requires Removing Half The Brain

Posted 02.15.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

Imagine having a child with a rare neurological disease -- and then being told that removing half the brain is the only treatment. This was the case f...

Wisconsin Woman Raises Thousands To Save Sick Honduran Baby's Life

foxpoint.patch.com | Posted 04.04.2012 | Impact

At four months old, Camila Flores began having seizures that violently shook her little body. Doctors in her native Honduras were not equipped to help...

Alice Hines

U.S. Clamps Down On 'Sex In The City' Counterfeit Perfumes

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 02.10.2012 | Business

The ladies of "Sex and the City" are still cool enough for China's massive counterfeit market. Counterfeit perfume seizures by the U.S. Customs an...

How Big A Problem Are Energy Drinks, Really?

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 10.19.2011 | Healthy Living
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.

Are energy drinks the new coffee? Do they have excessive health risks and do they need to be regulated, or is the problem limited to their excessive use in our youth?

Government and Many Scientists Agree: Vaccine-Autism Research Should Continue

David Kirby | Posted 07.05.2011 | Home
David Kirby

As the following comments, funding decisions, research priorities and published papers suggest, the U.S. government and many scientists will be researching and discussing this topic for years to come.

A Clinical Failure

Liane Kupferberg Carter | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Liane Kupferberg Carter

The letter was terse. Our health insurance company would no longer cover our son's epilepsy medication unless we switched from the brand name drug ...

Epilepsy: Holding A Volcano

Lisa Guest | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Lisa Guest

He's had epilepsy for over fifteen years. He lost his license and his job fifteen years ago. Medicare says he's not "disabled enough."

One Foot in a High Heel and One Foot in a Sneaker: A Daughter Nearly Lost

Kyrina McCormick | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Kyrina McCormick

This is not a world for the disabled. My daughter is mentally challenged. She is at the mercy of a number of poorly constructed or outdated programs, but I've become a fierce advocate for her.

Another Scary Government Program: the Government Gets to Seize Your Electronic Gear at the Border

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert Schlesinger

There's no legal difference between looking through your backpack and seizing your electronic data in the US. This is the stuff of the Cold War Soviet Union, right? Or maybe a third world dictatorship?