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.
Black women are about twice as likely to be diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive subtype that …
Tinnitus, the ringing, buzzing, or hissing you hear when no outside sound is making it, has no cure, …
Hidradenitis suppurativa hits Black Americans harder than any other group in U.S. data, yet most patients wait years …
Hemorrhoids are common and usually harmless, but rectal bleeding is never safe to self-diagnose. Colorectal cancer is more …
An analyst's tracker, reported by KFF Health News, surfaces the deepest single-state drop in people paying ACA premiums …
Migraine is a neurological disease, not a bad headache, and Black Americans get it at about the same …
A vaginal yeast infection is an overgrowth of Candida, the fungus that normally lives in the vagina in …
Between 45% and 83% of Black men who shave develop pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), the clinical name for razor …
Black men in the United States are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer as …
A urinary tract infection is treatable in days, but the burning, urgency, and pelvic pain mean nothing until …
KFF Health News documented children boarding in hospitals long after they were cleared for discharge. The peer-reviewed literature …
Black Americans develop kidney failure at four times the rate of White Americans. Two forces drive most of …
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