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Diverticulitis is an infection of small pouches in the colon wall, and it sends thousands of Black adults …
Hepatitis B is a vaccine-preventable virus that can quietly scar the liver for decades before any symptom shows. …
Kidney stones are climbing fastest in the groups that used to get them least, including Black Americans. Knowing …
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not vanity or a phase, and Black women have them at rates …
Black children, and Black girls most of all, carry the highest childhood obesity rates in the country, and …
Among adults 45 to 64, 60% of non-Hispanic Black adults have moderate or severe gum disease, compared with …
Most ear infections in children clear on their own, and antibiotics are not always the right first step. …
Black adults are about twice as likely to develop peripheral artery disease and far more likely to lose …
Black children are now identified with autism at higher rates than white children, but they are still diagnosed …
Shingles is the chickenpox virus waking back up, and on dark skin the rash often reads as gray, …
OCD is not a preference for neatness or a personality quirk. It is an anxiety-related disorder built on …
Sarcoidosis is roughly three times more common in Black Americans than white Americans, and it tends to be …
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