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Acid reflux that strikes now and then is common and rarely serious. When heartburn comes back two or …
By age 50, more than 80 percent of Black women have ultrasound evidence of uterine fibroids, compared with …
Bacterial vaginosis is the most common vaginal condition in women of reproductive age, and it shows up in …
The most dangerous part of having a baby is often not labor or delivery. It is the days …
PrEP is a daily pill or a shot that prevents HIV, and it works about 99 percent of …
About 1 in 13 Black or African American babies is born with sickle cell trait. Trait is not …
Anxiety is your body's alarm system firing when there is no real emergency, and it shows up as …
Hepatitis C is one of the few serious diseases medicine can fully cure, yet most people who carry …
Black people get melanoma far less often than white people, yet are about three times more likely to …
Fatty liver disease, now called MASLD, is fat buildup in the liver tied to weight, diabetes, and metabolic …
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common hormone conditions in women of reproductive age, yet …
Perimenopause is the years before your final period, when estrogen swings and cycles turn erratic. Black women tend …
Waking up drenched is rarely random. Night sweats that soak through your clothes or bedding have a short …
Black adults develop COPD after fewer years of smoking, get diagnosed later, and land in the hospital more …
Depression in Black women is too often pushed through, mislabeled, and left untreated. It can show up less …
Numbness and tingling in your hands or feet, the pins-and-needles feeling, is most often peripheral neuropathy, and diabetes …
That flaky, itchy scalp and the dry patches around your nose, eyebrows, or beard are usually seborrheic dermatitis, …
Black children carry more than double the asthma prevalence of white children and a far higher rate of …
Metformin is the standard first medicine for type 2 diabetes, and most of its side effects are mild …
Black adults, and Black women in particular, report more severe arthritis pain and more disability than white adults, …
Without insurance, Novo Nordisk’s own pharmacy sells Ozempic for $149 to $499 a month and Wegovy for $149 …
If you are always tired, the cause may be low iron. Iron-deficiency anemia is common in Black women, …
Melasma is the symmetric brown to gray-brown facial patching driven by sun, heat, and hormones. It is more …
Prediabetes means your blood sugar runs high but has not crossed into type 2 diabetes. It is common, …
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