Kori Hale, Contributor

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Anti-Obesity Drugs Are On The Come Up In A $44 Billion Market By 2030

Particularly, the Black community bears the brunt of this health crisis as 49% of adults in this demographic qualify as obese.

How Johnson & Johnson’s Attempt At A $9 Billion Baby Powder Settlement Impacts Black Women

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & JohnsonJNJ wants to do a one-time lump sum payment of at least $8.9 billion to thousands of talc-powder claimants. For Black women, who were selected by J&J as “the right place” to sell more baby powder to,” this is per…

Appeals Court Clears The Way For 38,000 Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder Lawsuits

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has 99 problems and a Federal Appeals Court is one. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a bankruptcy filing by a Johnson & Johnson spinoff company that clears the way for more lawsuits over its baby p…

Biden Clearing Out The Menthol Cigarette Smoke With New Ban

President Biden’s administration is clearing out the smoke when it comes to the sale of menthol flavored cigarettes. Menthol cigarettes have been heavily marketed toward Black Americans, and the FDA noted that the move to ban them would save the lives …

Biden Clearing Out The Menthol Cigarette Smoke With New Ban

President Biden’s administration is clearing out the smoke when it comes to the sale of menthol flavored cigarettes. Menthol cigarettes have been heavily marketed toward Black Americans, and the FDA noted that the move to ban them would save the lives …

Google Health Is Looking To Disrupt Health-Tech With 500 Employees

Search engine giant Google is intensely focusing its efforts and heavily investing in the health-tech space. More than 500 people now work at Google Health. A bet on health tech could prove very lucrative for the company, while also helping low-income …

Will Juul Quit The Billion Dollar Teen Vaping Industry?

The teen vaping “epidemic” spurred by Juul, maker is under heavy scrutiny by the federal government. There’s been a re-emergence of smoking, that is re-normalizing a deadly habit to millions of teens, and helped Juul bring in $1.27 billion in global re…

Vista’s Cloud Chase Scores $2 Billion Deal

Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, helmed by Robert F. Smith just banked about £2 billion ($2.4 billion) as they look to share the risk of growing cloud based companies. The deal is with BC Partners for a 50% share of UK healthcare software spe…

Apple & Amazon Level Up On Diabetes Tech

Apple, Amazon and Google are heavily investing in fighting diabetes as another possible revenue source. This could be the best chance for African American’s who over index in this disease to start seeing lower treatment costs, and tech companies could …

Blue Apron Bets On Dieters In Weight Watchers Partnership

Blue Apron’s new partnership with Weight Watchers is its last hope to make the company profitable this year. African Americans looking for mealtime solutions is an attractive consumer group for Blue Apron, since the The Selig Center’s expected buying p…