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Age-related macular degeneration takes the center of your sight and leaves the edges. It is uncommon among Black …
A keloid is a raised scar that keeps growing after a wound has healed, spreading past the edge …
Uveitis is inflammation inside the eye, and it is one of the leading causes of preventable vision loss …
Vitiligo strikes all skin tones at about the same rate, but the white patches read far louder on …
Hidradenitis suppurativa hits Black Americans harder than any other group in U.S. data, yet most patients wait years …
Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in Black Americans, who develop the most common form 6 …
On April 30, 2026 the FDA approved Auvelity (dextromethorphan with bupropion) for agitation associated with Alzheimer's disease, the …
A 2023 prospective ultrasound study of 1,610 Black and African American women in Detroit reported that 16 percent …
Tina Knowles published her memoir Matriarch in April 2025 (Knopf, Oprah's Book Club 2.0). In the press tour …
Dr. Ala Stanford rented a van in April 2020 and started showing up in Philadelphia church parking lots …
Tabitha Brown's path to TikTok fame started with a year she could not work. The recovery account that …
Dr. Uche Blackstock left academic medicine in 2019 and founded Advancing Health Equity. Her 2024 memoir LEGACY (Penguin …
In December 2020, a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine documented that the small device clipped …
Black patients with Black physicians rate their care 2.4 times higher and accept more preventive services, per a …
A 2020 PNAS paper reported Black newborns cared for by Black physicians had lower in-hospital mortality in 1.8 …
The antibiotic US dentists most often prescribe for penicillin-allergic patients drives Clostridioides difficile deaths. The 2021 American Heart …
The 2026 Taylor lab paper engineered a smaller Cas12f editor that packages in AAV. There is no in-vivo …
Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults, and Black adults with diabetes carry more …
That flaky, itchy scalp and the dry patches around your nose, eyebrows, or beard are usually seborrheic dermatitis, …
Melasma is the symmetric brown to gray-brown facial patching driven by sun, heat, and hormones. It is more …
Traction alopecia is the most common preventable cause of hair loss in Black women, and it is reversible …
Black patients with Parkinson's are diagnosed about four years later than white patients, are less likely to see …
Psoriasis on Black skin rarely looks like the bright red, silvery textbook photo, so it gets called eczema, …
Multiple sclerosis is not rare in Black Americans. Decades of that myth produced later diagnoses and worse outcomes, …
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