Gum disease in Black adults: signs, diabetes link, and care
Among adults 45 to 64, 60% of non-Hispanic Black adults have moderate or severe gum disease, compared with …
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Among adults 45 to 64, 60% of non-Hispanic Black adults have moderate or severe gum disease, compared with …
Most ear infections in children clear on their own, and antibiotics are not always the right first step. …
Black adults are about twice as likely to develop peripheral artery disease and far more likely to lose …
Black children are now identified with autism at higher rates than white children, but they are still diagnosed …
Shingles is the chickenpox virus reactivating, and on deeply pigmented skin the blistering rash usually reads as gray, …
OCD is not a preference for neatness or a personality quirk. It is an anxiety-related disorder built on …
Sarcoidosis is roughly three times more common in Black Americans than white Americans, and it tends to be …
Black Americans get bladder cancer less often than white Americans but are diagnosed later and die of it …
Black Americans develop multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow's plasma cells, at more than twice the …
Uterine cancer is one of the few cancers with rising incidence and rising deaths, and Black women die …
About half of Black adults carry H. pylori, a stomach bacterium that causes most ulcers and is the …
Black Americans have the highest rate of pancreatic cancer of any racial group in the United States. The …
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