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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

Sickle Cell Disease in Black Children: A Parent's Guide

Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the US, and about 1 in 365 …

Black Health Editorial team May 5 10m

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

Halle Berry's ReSpin and the Black-women's menopause care gap: 10.1 years of symptoms, the AHA's CVD warning, and what Black women can ask for now

African-American women in the SWAN cohort experienced menopausal vasomotor symptoms for a median 10.1 years compared with 7.4 …

Black Health Editorial team May 1 7m

Gout in Black men: causes, the sudden attack, and long-term control

Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis, it is rising, and it runs harder in Black men. Here …

Black Health Editorial team May 1 9m

Denzel Washington got his minister's license at 70. The Black church he's stepping into is one of the largest open frontiers in Black men's mental health.

In December 2024, days before his 70th birthday, Denzel Washington got baptized and received his minister's license at …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 30 7m

DeMar DeRozan said he was depressed in a tweet in 2018. Eight years later his book is still doing the cultural work for Black men talking about mental health.

DeMar DeRozan posted on Twitter in February 2018 that he was struggling with depression. The post moved the …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 30 6m

Tina Knowles disclosed her stage 1 breast cancer in 2025. The mammogram she almost skipped is exactly the screening conversation Black women need.

Tina Knowles published her memoir Matriarch in April 2025 (Knopf, Oprah's Book Club 2.0). In the press tour …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 30 6m

Dr. Ala Stanford built the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium during the pandemic. Five years later her structural-health work is still the template.

Dr. Ala Stanford rented a van in April 2020 and started showing up in Philadelphia church parking lots …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 30 6m

Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones gave US public health the Levels of Racism framework. It is the lens running underneath most of our reporting.

In 2000, Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones published Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener's Tale in …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 30 6m

Insomnia in Black Adults: Why Sleep Is a Health-Equity Issue

Black adults are far more likely to get too little sleep and to have insomnia go untreated, and …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 29 10m

Tabitha Brown lost a year to chronic pain. The research on Black women and undiagnosed illness explains why so many readers see themselves in her story.

Tabitha Brown's path to TikTok fame started with a year she could not work. The recovery account that …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 28 6m

Dr. Uche Blackstock built her career as an emergency physician. Then she wrote a book about why medicine fails Black patients.

Dr. Uche Blackstock left academic medicine in 2019 and founded Advancing Health Equity. Her 2024 memoir LEGACY (Penguin …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 28 6m

Pulse oximeters fail Black patients. The science, the FDA's response, and what to ask in the ER.

In December 2020, a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine documented that the small device clipped …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 27 9m

How to find a Black therapist: what the evidence says about race-concordance, cultural adaptation, and what to ask in the first session

Black clients prefer Black therapists at moderate-to-strong rates across 52 studies. Race matching alone barely changes treatment outcomes. …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 27 7m

Ernie Hudson is the new face of Black-men's-cancer screening. Here is the evidence behind starting earlier on three cancers.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation's 2024 Black-men screening guideline lowered the recommended baseline PSA testing window to ages 40 …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 25 9m

How to find a Black OB-GYN near you: what the evidence says about race-concordance, training, and group prenatal care

The most-cited race-concordance study in obstetrics is also the most-contested in the peer-reviewed record. The strongest evidence on …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 25 7m

The Black-white maternal mortality gap widened to 3.5 times in 2023. Here is what actually moved.

CDC's 2023 brief put Black women at 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births and white women at 14.5. …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 24 9m

CMS's RAPID pathway cuts Medicare device coverage decisions from a year to two months. Black-Medicare utilization gaps live downstream of the timing change.

The new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Coverage Pathway compresses coverage decisions on FDA Breakthrough Devices from …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 24 6m

Title X's FY2027 funding notice moves the federal family-planning program toward fertility-awareness counseling. A 2022 study of the 2019 precedent shows what that looks like in practice.

A peer-reviewed qualitative study of 55 Title X clinics in Arizona, Iowa, and Wisconsin during the 2020 implementation …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 24 7m

Virginia signs four Momnibus Act II bills on April 22. Here is what each bill does and why the Black-maternal-mortality context makes them consequential.

Governor Abigail Spanberger signed four maternal-health bills in Richmond on April 22, 2026: HB1400 on mental-health screenings, HB1403 …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 24 6m

Eczema on Black Skin: What It Looks Like and How to Treat It

Atopic dermatitis is more common and more often severe in Black children and adults, and on darker skin …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 24 14m

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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.

Sickle Cell Disease in Black Children: A Parent's Guide

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

Halle Berry's ReSpin and the Black-women's menopause care gap: 10.1 years of symptoms, the AHA's CVD warning, and what Black women can ask for now

Gout in Black men: causes, the sudden attack, and long-term control

Denzel Washington got his minister's license at 70. The Black church he's stepping into is one of the largest open frontiers in Black men's mental health.

DeMar DeRozan said he was depressed in a tweet in 2018. Eight years later his book is still doing the cultural work for Black men talking about mental health.

Tina Knowles disclosed her stage 1 breast cancer in 2025. The mammogram she almost skipped is exactly the screening conversation Black women need.

Dr. Ala Stanford built the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium during the pandemic. Five years later her structural-health work is still the template.

Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones gave US public health the Levels of Racism framework. It is the lens running underneath most of our reporting.

Insomnia in Black Adults: Why Sleep Is a Health-Equity Issue

Tabitha Brown lost a year to chronic pain. The research on Black women and undiagnosed illness explains why so many readers see themselves in her story.

Dr. Uche Blackstock built her career as an emergency physician. Then she wrote a book about why medicine fails Black patients.

Pulse oximeters fail Black patients. The science, the FDA's response, and what to ask in the ER.

How to find a Black therapist: what the evidence says about race-concordance, cultural adaptation, and what to ask in the first session

Ernie Hudson is the new face of Black-men's-cancer screening. Here is the evidence behind starting earlier on three cancers.

How to find a Black OB-GYN near you: what the evidence says about race-concordance, training, and group prenatal care

The Black-white maternal mortality gap widened to 3.5 times in 2023. Here is what actually moved.

CMS's RAPID pathway cuts Medicare device coverage decisions from a year to two months. Black-Medicare utilization gaps live downstream of the timing change.

Title X's FY2027 funding notice moves the federal family-planning program toward fertility-awareness counseling. A 2022 study of the 2019 precedent shows what that looks like in practice.

Virginia signs four Momnibus Act II bills on April 22. Here is what each bill does and why the Black-maternal-mortality context makes them consequential.

Eczema on Black Skin: What It Looks Like and How to Treat It

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