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Celiac disease is real in Black adults, and the belief that it is a white-only condition keeps Black …
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common inherited heart disease and a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in …
Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults, and Black adults with diabetes carry more …
PrEP is a daily pill or a shot that prevents HIV, and it works about 99 percent of …
Hepatitis C is one of the few serious diseases medicine can fully cure, yet most people who carry …
Hepatitis B is a vaccine-preventable virus that can quietly scar the liver for decades before any symptom shows. …
Black adults are about twice as likely to develop peripheral artery disease and far more likely to lose …
Black Americans get bladder cancer less often than white Americans but are diagnosed later and die of it …
A panic attack feels like dying, and many Black adults end up in the ER convinced it is …
Multiple sclerosis is not rare in Black Americans. Decades of that myth produced later diagnoses and worse outcomes, …
For most Black adults, the body slows lactase production after childhood. That is the genetic default for two-thirds …
Vitamin B12 deficiency is not the same as iron-deficiency anemia. It causes a different anemia and can damage …
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