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.
Decades of research point to the church as the most-trusted, most-studied non-clinical setting for closing a treatment gap …
A 2017 Cochrane systematic review pooled 27 randomized trials of continuous labor support covering 15,858 women across high-income, …
Between 2018 and 2021, the suicide rate among Black Americans ages 10 to 24 climbed 36.6 percent, the …
Five US peer-reviewed studies covering adult depression, pediatric ADHD, Medicare dementia, and Medicaid pediatric antipsychotic care document the …
Colorectal cancer screening for average-risk adults now starts at 45, not 50. That change matters for Black Americans, …
Illinois's January 2026 dual-track policy combines Medicaid doula coverage with a first-in-nation private-insurance mandate. The 2017 Cochrane review …
Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the US, and about 1 in 365 …
Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis, it is rising, and it runs harder in Black men. Here …
Tina Knowles published her memoir Matriarch in April 2025 (Knopf, Oprah's Book Club 2.0). In the press tour …
Black adults are far more likely to get too little sleep and to have insomnia go untreated, and …
In December 2020, a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine documented that the small device clipped …
The most-cited race-concordance study in obstetrics is also the most-contested in the peer-reviewed record. The strongest evidence on …
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