127 articles published
Zuri Carter 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.
Bladder pain that builds as you fill and eases after you go, with urine cultures that keep coming …
Syphilis is curable with a single penicillin shot in its early stages, but it hides behind a painless …
Gonorrhea is cured by a single injection of ceftriaxone, and that is the whole treatment. The regimen changed …
A keloid is a raised scar that keeps growing after a wound has healed, spreading past the edge …
Chlamydia almost never causes symptoms in women, so it is caught by a test you request rather than …
Tinea is a group of common fungal infections of the skin, scalp, feet, and groin. Scalp ringworm (tinea …
Celiac disease is real in Black adults, and the belief that it is a white-only condition keeps Black …
That sharp heel pain on your first steps out of bed is usually plantar fasciitis, and it gets …
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common inherited heart disease and a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in …
Postpartum hemorrhage, heavy bleeding after birth, is one of the leading causes of maternal death in the US, …
Black women face infertility at least as often as anyone, and by several measures more often, yet they …
The weathering hypothesis, first described by researcher Arline Geronimus, holds that the sustained stress of living in a …
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