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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. …
Older Black Americans are about twice as likely as older white Americans to develop Alzheimer's or another dementia, …
About 81% of Black adults who smoke use menthol, the result of decades of targeted tobacco marketing, not …
For most Black adults, the body slows lactase production after childhood. That is the genetic default for two-thirds …
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that attacks your joints, and it is not the same as the …
Gallstones are one of the most common reasons women land in surgery, and two Black-specific risks raise the …
Chronic sinusitis means 12 weeks or more of congestion, facial pressure, drainage, and lost smell. Black adults present …
Restless legs syndrome is a treatable neurologic condition, not a quirk or a cramp, and it is closely …
Cellulitis is a common bacterial skin infection that classic medical teaching describes as "redness." On Black and brown …
Sjogren's is an autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks the glands that make tears and saliva, and …
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