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Hives that keep coming back for six weeks or more are chronic urticaria, not an allergy you can …
Frozen shoulder is shoulder pain and stiffness that builds until you cannot raise your arm or reach behind …
That sharp heel pain on your first steps out of bed is usually plantar fasciitis, and it gets …
Black adults carry the highest rates of allergen sensitization in the country, yet seasonal allergies go diagnosed and …
Tuberculosis is not a disease of the past. The United States recorded 10,388 TB cases in 2024, and …
Metabolic and bariatric surgery is the most effective, most durable treatment for severe obesity and the type 2 …
Naloxone reverses an opioid overdose in minutes, it is sold over the counter without a prescription, and it …
Black Americans develop kidney failure at a rate four times higher than any other group in the United …
The weathering hypothesis, first described by researcher Arline Geronimus, holds that the sustained stress of living in a …
Black patients wait longer in emergency departments, receive less pain medication, and leave without being seen at higher …
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of five risk factors that, together, raise the risk of heart disease and …
A transplant is the treatment that keeps most people with kidney failure alive longest, yet Black patients wait …
Black women account for 50% of new HIV diagnoses among all women in the United States, while representing …
On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce freedom to the last enslaved Black …
National HIV Testing Day falls on June 27. In Black communities, where 38 percent of new HIV diagnoses …
Black men face higher rates of preventable death from hypertension, prostate cancer, diabetes, and colorectal cancer than any …
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a leading cause of nephrotic syndrome and kidney failure, and it hits Black …
Thyroid cancer is diagnosed less often in Black women than white women, yet Black patients are caught at …
Bell's palsy is sudden, usually temporary weakness of one side of the face caused by inflammation of the …
Black adults get the flu shot at lower rates than white adults, yet land in the hospital with …
Black Americans are diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma less often than white Americans, yet they are diagnosed younger, at …
Inflammatory bowel disease was long treated as a white person's disease. It is rising fastest among Black Americans, …
Black adults carry the highest rate of invasive pneumococcal disease of any group, and it strikes earlier. The …
Black women now get mammograms at the highest rate of any group in the United States, and they …
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