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Paying cash for Ozempic or Wegovy is expensive, but the sticker price is not what most uninsured people …
If you are always tired, the cause may be low iron. Iron-deficiency anemia is common in Black women, …
Prediabetes means your blood sugar runs high but has not crossed into type 2 diabetes. It is common, …
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Black women do get osteoporosis. They are screened and treated far less often than white women, are usually …
An enlarged prostate, known medically as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), squeezes the urethra and changes how you urinate. …
Ashiness is the gray or white cast that dry skin leaves on darker tones. It is not a …
Low testosterone is real, but it is also one of the most over-marketed diagnoses in men's health. The …
Black American adults are about 60% more likely than White adults to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, …
Dark spots on Black skin are usually post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH): the flat brown, gray, or black marks that …
Erectile dysfunction is common, it gets more common with age, and it responds well to treatment. It is …
Fibromyalgia is a real disorder of how the brain and nerves process pain, not weakness and not damage …
Diverticulitis is an infection of small pouches in the colon wall, and it sends thousands of Black adults …
Hepatitis B is a vaccine-preventable virus that can quietly scar the liver for decades before any symptom shows. …
Kidney stones are climbing fastest in the groups that used to get them least, including Black Americans. Knowing …
Among adults 45 to 64, 60% of non-Hispanic Black adults have moderate or severe gum disease, compared with …
Shingles is the chickenpox virus reactivating, and on deeply pigmented skin the blistering rash usually reads as gray, …
Sarcoidosis is roughly three times more common in Black Americans than white Americans, and it tends to be …
Black Americans get bladder cancer less often than white Americans but are diagnosed later and die of it …
Black Americans develop multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow's plasma cells, at more than twice the …
About half of Black adults carry H. pylori, a stomach bacterium that causes most ulcers and is the …
Black Americans have the highest rate of pancreatic cancer of any racial group in the United States. The …
Irritable bowel syndrome is a real, treatable disorder of gut-brain interaction, not anxiety in your stomach and not …
Black women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer less often than white women but die from it at higher …
Black Americans get liver cancer more often than white Americans and are more likely to die from it. …
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