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High cholesterol raises the risk of heart attack and stroke, and heart disease is the leading cause of …
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 …
Traction alopecia is the most common preventable cause of hair loss in Black women, and it is reversible …
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 …
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not vanity or a phase, and Black women have them at rates …
Black children, and Black girls most of all, carry the highest childhood obesity rates in the country, and …
Among adults 45 to 64, 60% of non-Hispanic Black adults have moderate or severe gum disease, compared with …
Most ear infections in children clear on their own, and antibiotics are not always the right first step. …
Black adults are about twice as likely to develop peripheral artery disease and far more likely to lose …
Black children are now identified with autism at higher rates than white children, but they are still diagnosed …
Shingles is the chickenpox virus reactivating, and on deeply pigmented skin the blistering rash usually reads as gray, …
OCD is not a preference for neatness or a personality quirk. It is an anxiety-related disorder built on …
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 …
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