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Black women face roughly twice the postpartum-depression rate. Treatment access runs the opposite direction.

A 2017 South Bronx cohort screened 24 percent of Black mothers positive for postpartum depression on the Edinburgh …

Black Health Editorial team May 15 10m

Young Black men have the fastest-rising suicide rate: what's actually working in the response

Between 2018 and 2021, the suicide rate among Black Americans ages 10 to 24 climbed 36.6 percent, the …

Black Health Editorial team May 13 8m

Postpartum depression in Black mothers: the screening-tool gap nobody talks about

The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale was developed in 1987 on white British women. The cutoff your OB circles …

Black Health Editorial team May 13 8m

John Henryism: the high-effort coping cost we still measure in Black blood pressure

Sherman James named John Henryism in 1983 after a sharecropper's son in eastern North Carolina who refused, on …

Black Health Editorial team May 13 8m

HHS launched the MAHA Action Plan to curb psychiatric overprescribing on May 4. The Black-mental-health pattern is under-treatment, not over-treatment.

Five US peer-reviewed studies covering adult depression, pediatric ADHD, Medicare dementia, and Medicaid pediatric antipsychotic care document the …

Black Health Editorial team May 12 10m

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

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

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

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Black women face roughly twice the postpartum-depression rate. Treatment access runs the opposite direction.

Young Black men have the fastest-rising suicide rate: what's actually working in the response

Postpartum depression in Black mothers: the screening-tool gap nobody talks about

John Henryism: the high-effort coping cost we still measure in Black blood pressure

HHS launched the MAHA Action Plan to curb psychiatric overprescribing on May 4. The Black-mental-health pattern is under-treatment, not over-treatment.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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