Black Health Editorial team

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 9m

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

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

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

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Articles by Black Health Editorial team

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.

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

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.

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