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About one in four women has urinary leakage in the first year after giving birth, and the best-designed …
Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults, and Black adults with diabetes carry more …
Acid reflux that strikes now and then is common and rarely serious. When heartburn comes back two or …
By age 50, more than 80 percent of Black women have ultrasound evidence of uterine fibroids, compared with …
Bacterial vaginosis is the most common vaginal condition in women of reproductive age, and it shows up in …
The most dangerous part of having a baby is often not labor or delivery. It is the days …
PrEP is a daily pill or a shot that prevents HIV, and it works about 99 percent of …
About 1 in 13 Black or African American babies is born with sickle cell trait. Trait is not …
Anxiety is your body's alarm system firing when there is no real emergency, and it shows up as …
Hepatitis C is one of the few serious diseases medicine can fully cure, yet most people who carry …
Black people get melanoma far less often than white people, yet are about three times more likely to …
Fatty liver disease, now called MASLD, is fat buildup in the liver tied to weight, diabetes, and metabolic …
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