128 articles published
Mark Jones is a writer at Black Health. Every article is checked against our published editorial standards, and clinical claims are reviewed by the Black Health Medical Editorial Board.
Sarcoidosis is roughly three times more common in Black Americans than white Americans, and it tends to be …
Uterine cancer is one of the few cancers with rising incidence and rising deaths, and Black women die …
Irritable bowel syndrome is a real, treatable disorder of gut-brain interaction, not anxiety in your stomach and not …
Black patients with Parkinson's are diagnosed about four years later than white patients, are less likely to see …
Black children carry the highest rates of elevated blood lead in the country, and lead permanently harms a …
Black Americans get deep vein clots and lung clots more often than white Americans and die from them …
Prostatitis is the most common reason men under 50 see a urologist, and it gets dismissed, misdiagnosed, and …
Rosacea is not a white-skin disease. It is a chronic inflammatory facial condition that affects Black patients too, …
For most Black adults, the body slows lactase production after childhood. That is the genetic default for two-thirds …
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that attacks your joints, and it is not the same as the …
Chronic venous insufficiency is common and badly under-treated, and in Black patients it is often caught late, after …
Cellulitis is a common bacterial skin infection that classic medical teaching describes as "redness." On Black and brown …
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