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Bipolar Disorder in Black Patients: The Misdiagnosis Problem

Black patients with bipolar disorder are routinely misdiagnosed with schizophrenia because clinicians over-weight psychotic symptoms and under-weight mood …

Black Health Editorial team May 12 9m

1 in 13 Black babies is born with sickle cell trait. The screening-mandate evidence is more contested than the policy story tells you.

About 1 in 13 Black or African American newborns carries sickle cell trait, the carrier state for sickle …

Black Health Editorial team May 11 9m

Colon cancer screening for Black adults: why it starts at 45 (or earlier)

Colorectal cancer screening for average-risk adults now starts at 45, not 50. That change matters for Black Americans, …

Black Health Editorial team May 8 7m

Auvelity is the first non-antipsychotic FDA approval for Alzheimer's agitation. The Black-dementia question is whether the underdiagnosis pattern in US Medicare data suppresses access to the new on-label option.

On April 30, 2026 the FDA approved Auvelity (dextromethorphan with bupropion) for agitation associated with Alzheimer's disease, the …

Black Health Editorial team May 7 11m

Black US medical-school matriculation dropped 11.6 percent in the first admissions cycle after the SFFA ruling. The Black-physician pipeline shrinks for everyone now looking for one in 2030.

Two 2025 JAMA Network Open papers using AAMC and AACOM data establish three measurements of the post-SFFA shift: …

Black Health Editorial team May 7 8m

Illinois became the first state to mandate private-insurance doula coverage. Four months in, here is what the evidence predicts and where the implementation gap will show up.

Illinois's January 2026 dual-track policy combines Medicaid doula coverage with a first-in-nation private-insurance mandate. The 2017 Cochrane review …

Black Health Editorial team May 7 10m

Tatyana Ali called her 2016 birth experience obstetric violence on Pod Meets World. The peer-reviewed record says her account is the population-level pattern, not an outlier.

On the April 27, 2026 Pod Meets World podcast, Tatyana Ali described her 2016 first-birth as obstetric violence. …

Black Health Editorial team May 6 7m

Sixteen percent of Black women report keloids. The treatment evidence is mixed, but a 2024 meta-analysis points to combination intralesional therapy.

A 2023 prospective ultrasound study of 1,610 Black and African American women in Detroit reported that 16 percent …

Black Health Editorial team May 6 8m

Sickle Cell Disease in Black Children: A Parent's Guide

Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the US, and about 1 in 365 …

Black Health Editorial team May 5 10m

Bhattacharya blocked an MMWR vaccine-effectiveness paper. MMWR anchors most US Black-disparity surveillance reporting; here is what the cite-chain risk looks like.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, head of the CDC and director of the National Institutes of Health, blocked publication of …

Black Health Editorial team May 1 7m

Halle Berry's ReSpin and the Black-women's menopause care gap: 10.1 years of symptoms, the AHA's CVD warning, and what Black women can ask for now

African-American women in the SWAN cohort experienced menopausal vasomotor symptoms for a median 10.1 years compared with 7.4 …

Black Health Editorial team May 1 7m

Gout in Black men: causes, the sudden attack, and long-term control

Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis, it is rising, and it runs harder in Black men. Here …

Black Health Editorial team May 1 9m

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