Mark Jones

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.

Articles by Mark Jones

The 2023 ACS lung-cancer screening expansion widened the Black-white eligibility gap from 7 to 12 percentage points

A 2026 multi-cohort Chest analysis of 175,259 adults with a smoking history found that the American Cancer Society's …

Mark Jones May 17 9m

42 percent of large US tuberculosis outbreaks 2017-2023 were Black or African American patients. Two-thirds of outbreaks happened in family and social networks, not jails or shelters.

A CDC MMWR analysis of 50 large tuberculosis outbreaks across 23 US states between 2017 and 2023 found …

Mark Jones May 15 9m

Does Culturally Adapted Therapy Work? What 78 Studies Show

A 2016 meta-analysis pooled 78 studies of culturally adapted psychological interventions covering 13,998 participants, 95 percent of whom …

Mark Jones May 15 5m

Hair loss in Black women: traction alopecia, CCCA, and what to do early

Hair loss in Black women is not one condition. Traction alopecia from tight styles is reversible early but …

Mark Jones May 15 8m

John Henryism: the high-effort coping cost we still measure in Black blood pressure

Sherman James named John Henryism in 1983 after a sharecropper's son in eastern North Carolina who refused, on …

Mark Jones May 13 8m

1 in 13 Black babies is born with sickle cell trait. The screening-mandate evidence is more contested than the policy story tells you.

About 1 in 13 Black or African American newborns carries sickle cell trait, the carrier state for sickle …

Mark Jones May 11 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: …

Mark Jones May 7 9m

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 …

Mark Jones May 6 8m

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 …

Mark Jones May 1 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 …

Mark Jones 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 …