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Follow The Beat On Twitter: This Saturday the Alpha Mu Omega Alumni Chapter Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, INC are having an event The Solstice Benefiting St. Jude Research Hospital! We’re inviting everyone to come out and help raise money for this wonderful cause. St. Jude Research Hospital helps children with various childhood cancers and they […]

Follow The Beat On Twitter: A new study is causing concern over Chipotle’s biodegradable bowls, which contain PFAs or “forever chemicals” that help the bowl hold wet, hot and greasy food. The Environmental Protection Agency says that the chemicals don’t break down in the human body and will accumulate over time then seep into the […]

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Follow The Beat On Twitter: UPDATE 12:03 pm CST: According to Bushwick Bill’s publicist, Bill was hospitalized on Saturday, he is “still alive and fighting cancer,” the publicist revealed to TMZ. Bushwick was supposed to perform at The Nines bar in Dallas on Saturday night, however the publicist says that organizers were notified ahead of the […]

Kate Pepper, A McKinney teenager, knows her story. She knows she battled brain cancer once before in 2014 and beat it. She also knows over the summer the cancer returned and this time no more treatment options are available. What she didn’t know was how the story of last Friday would end. Kate started off […]

Text DFW to 24042 to join 97.9 The Beat’s mobile club for exclusive news (Terms & Conditions). According to a recent article by CBS11 News, “15 percent of medical encounters result in misdiagnosis.” For a woman in North Texas, she’s still feeling the pain in her finances after being hit with over $8,000 in doctor […]

A man in North Carolina lost his penis to cancer that went undiagnosed while in prison.  He received antibiotics for urinary tract infections and a 2014 memo shows he said he was kicked by several guards for complaining about lack of medical attention.  A biopsy wasn’t done until August 2015. Follow The Beat On Twitter:  […]

A new mural is up in West Dallas, honoring the late rapper Corey Struggs, who lost his battle with cancer last Friday.  Two local artists Tony Slomo and Jerod ‘Detox’ Davies  had already been working on a mural.  I had the honor of having him in as a guest on Raising the Bar featuring up and […]

Follow The Beat On Twitter:  Yesterday, news broke that Dallas rapper C-Struggs lost his battle to cancer and died at age 32. Rappers E-40, Paul Wall, DJ Khaled and Daz Dillinger took to Instagram and Twitter to give their condolences and support. Prayers go out to his family, fans, and friends. RIP bro. RELATED: 97.9 The […]

Here is some feel-good news, Lyft has joined a program with the American Cancer Society (ACS) called Road to Recovery which offers cancer patients free rides to and from their treatments in 10 major U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Houston, Miami, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Denver, St. Louis, and Atlanta.  Hope to see this program everywhere.   […]

We’ve already heard that eating grilled foods can raise your risks but now the researchers are saying you can absorb carcinogens through the skin that can pose a danger. 70% of Americans own grills. As meat cooks at high temps, it can lead to the release of chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) which have been […]