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 adults develop COPD after fewer years of smoking, get diagnosed later, and land in the hospital more …
That flaky, itchy scalp and the dry patches around your nose, eyebrows, or beard are usually seborrheic dermatitis, …
Black adults, and Black women in particular, report more severe arthritis pain and more disability than white adults, …
Melasma is the symmetric brown to gray-brown facial patching driven by sun, heat, and hormones. It is more …
Black women do get osteoporosis. They are screened and treated far less often than white women, are usually …
Traction alopecia is the most common preventable cause of hair loss in Black women, and it is reversible …
Dark spots on Black skin are usually post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH): the flat brown, gray, or black marks that …
Diverticulitis is an infection of small pouches in the colon wall, and it sends thousands of Black adults …
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not vanity or a phase, and Black women have them at rates …
Most ear infections in children clear on their own, and antibiotics are not always the right first step. …
Shingles is the chickenpox virus reactivating, and on deeply pigmented skin the blistering rash usually reads as gray, …
Black Americans get bladder cancer less often than white Americans but are diagnosed later and die of it …
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