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CDC's 2024 provisional surveillance counts 3,941 reported cases of congenital syphilis in the United States, a national rate …
Hidradenitis suppurativa hits Black Americans harder than any other group in U.S. data, yet most patients wait years …
Most spinning vertigo comes from loose crystals in the inner ear, and a 60-second bedside maneuver fixes it. …
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Black patients are diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AFib) less often than White patients, even though they carry more …
Hemorrhoids are common and usually harmless, but rectal bleeding is never safe to self-diagnose. Colorectal cancer is more …
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Black women, who develop it younger and die from …
The state's first GLP-1 price cap binds state and local government employee plans. Medicaid, commercial coverage, and the …
An analyst's tracker, reported by KFF Health News, surfaces the deepest single-state drop in people paying ACA premiums …
CDC's 2024 doxy-PEP guideline rests on a trial that enrolled 7 percent Black participants. Two years in, the …
Migraine is a neurological disease, not a bad headache, and Black Americans get it at about the same …
Sciatica is nerve pain that shoots from the low back down one leg, and most cases ease within …
Black adults have nearly twice the stroke risk of White adults, have strokes at younger ages, and are …
On 16 May, the WHO Director-General named the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda a public health …
A vaginal yeast infection is an overgrowth of Candida, the fungus that normally lives in the vagina in …
Controlled experiments show African American participants report lower pain tolerance than white participants, not higher. The clinical care …
Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in Black Americans, who develop the most common form 6 …
Between 45% and 83% of Black men who shave develop pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), the clinical name for razor …
If you are in crisis or thinking about suicide, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and …
Black men in the United States have some of the highest rates of high blood pressure in the …
Black men in the United States are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer as …
US national surveillance captured race or ethnicity for only 19 percent of the 1,053 leptospirosis cases reported between …
Black adults more often show low total vitamin D on standard blood tests, mostly because more melanin slows …
Black women develop lupus at roughly three times the rate of white women, get sicker younger, and die …
A urinary tract infection is treatable in days, but the burning, urgency, and pelvic pain mean nothing until …
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