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Uterine cancer is one of the few cancers with rising incidence and rising deaths, and Black women die …
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 children carry higher rates of food allergy than white children and are more likely to be underdiagnosed, …
Black patients with Parkinson's are diagnosed about four years later than white patients, are less likely to see …
Black Americans get liver cancer more often than white Americans and are more likely to die from it. …
Psoriasis on Black skin rarely looks like the bright red, silvery textbook photo, so it gets called eczema, …
Black children carry the highest rates of elevated blood lead in the country, and lead permanently harms a …
A panic attack feels like dying, and many Black adults end up in the ER convinced it is …
A mini-stroke, or TIA, is a brief stroke that stops on its own. The symptoms fade, but the …
Black Americans get deep vein clots and lung clots more often than white Americans and die from them …
Multiple sclerosis is not rare in Black Americans. Decades of that myth produced later diagnoses and worse outcomes, …
Older Black Americans are about twice as likely as older white Americans to develop Alzheimer's or another dementia, …
Prostatitis is the most common reason men under 50 see a urologist, and it gets dismissed, misdiagnosed, and …
RSV is the leading cause of infant hospitalization in the United States, and the babies hardest hit are …
Alcohol use disorder is a treatable medical condition, not a moral failing. Black adults do not drink at …
Rosacea is not a white-skin disease. It is a chronic inflammatory facial condition that affects Black patients too, …
A cataract clouds the eye's natural lens and blurs your vision, and it is one of the most …
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 …
If you spent your whole life called lazy, scattered, or unmotivated, that may have been undiagnosed ADHD, not …
Gestational diabetes is high blood sugar that starts in pregnancy. It usually causes no symptoms, so the glucose …
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