IBS in Black Adults: Why It Gets Missed and How to Get Care
Irritable bowel syndrome is a real, treatable disorder of gut-brain interaction, not anxiety in your stomach and not …
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Irritable bowel syndrome is a real, treatable disorder of gut-brain interaction, not anxiety in your stomach and not …
Black women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer less often than white women but die from it at higher …
Black children carry higher rates of food allergy than white children and are more likely to be underdiagnosed, …
Black patients with Parkinson's are diagnosed about four years later than white patients, are less likely to see …
Black Americans get liver cancer more often than white Americans and are more likely to die from it. …
Psoriasis on Black skin rarely looks like the bright red, silvery textbook photo, so it gets called eczema, …
Black children carry the highest rates of elevated blood lead in the country, and lead permanently harms a …
A panic attack feels like dying, and many Black adults end up in the ER convinced it is …
A mini-stroke, or TIA, is a brief stroke that stops on its own. The symptoms fade, but the …
Black Americans get deep vein clots and lung clots more often than white Americans and die from them …
Multiple sclerosis is not rare in Black Americans. Decades of that myth produced later diagnoses and worse outcomes, …
Older Black Americans are about twice as likely as older white Americans to develop Alzheimer's or another dementia, …
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