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ADHD

The Evolution of ADHD Screening Tools

For more than a decade, the FDA approved the Neuropsychiatric EEG-Based Assessment Aid (NEBA) System, has been the go-to tool designed to assist in...

8 Unique Ways ADHD Affects Black People

The symptoms of ADHD are the same for black men and Asian women, just as they are the same for Caucasian and Latino children....

Dealing With ADHD

Does your child have trouble focusing or finishing tasks? These are signs of the disorder Is your child in constant motion? Does he or she...

8 Concentration Killers

Learn what interrupts your focus and how to manage distractions All of us have trouble focusing sometimes. Here are eight of the most common concentration...

Diagnosed With ADHD

It was the headline of the week: Rates of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children are skyrocketing. This data, from a Centers for Disease...

Are There Allergy Treatments Specifically For African Americans?

7 Ways You Could Be Making Your Spring Allergies Worse

Black Children With Food Allergies Overlooked

Navigating Pollen Season Amid Coronavirus Fears

Allergy Meds Could Affect Your Driving

What Aging Reveals About Mental Health

Alzheimer's diagnoses often come later, limiting access to early care and support. Dr. Sharon A. Brangman, a geriatrician and educator and board member of the McKnight...

Kandi Burruss Reveals Her Aunt Bertha Has Alzheimer’s Disease

Kandi Burruss revealed that her aunt Bertha Jones had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease during an Amazon Live session. The Grammy winner, actress, and...

Cancer Research Isn’t Reaching Black America

Cancer is projected to claim more than 626,000 lives in 2026, according to new estimates from the American Cancer Society. Another 2.1 million people...

The Silent Killer: Black Women & Ovarian Cancer

Black women are less likely to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer than white women, but are more likely to die from it. A lack...

Regular Exercise May Boost Prostate Cancer Survival

If you're a Black man, you've probably heard about prostate cancer. It might've touched someone you love. Maybe your doctor mentioned it at 40....

Beloved President and CEO of The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce Lloyd A. Williams Passes At 80

Lloyd A. Williams, President and CEO of The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, has died. He was 80 years old. His family confirmed to the...

When Breathing Gets Harder (COPD and Pneumonia)

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and pneumonia are two respiratory conditions that often show up together, and when they do, the results can be...

Living With COPD: A Story Of Resilience, Advocacy, And Care

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death in the United States, but it can be totally invisible at times....

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Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone Has Died At 82

Sly Stone, the Grammy award-winning front man of Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82 after a prolonged battle with COPD. The...

Living with COPD? What You Need to Know About Managing This Condition

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of lung and airway diseases that can make breathing difficult. According to research, while only 6.1%...

Asking Your Doctor About COPD Could Save Your Life

Demeshia Montgomery knew her way around discomfort; after a lifetime of dealing with scleroderma, she was familiar with her body being triggered. But when...

11 Things to Know About the COVID-19 Vaccines in 2025

Last summer, there was a surge in COVID-19; a New York Times article reported that it had become so normalized that people didn't see...

Updated COVID Booster Could Be Available Soon

Newest Omicron Subvariant BA.5 Increases Cases and Reinfection

FDA Advisers Recommends Updating Booster Shots for the Fall

Finding Your Way Through Holiday Blues & Grief

There is a certain kind of silence that shows up during the holidays. It slips in between the music, the gatherings, the group texts...

Understanding Chemotherapy: Side Effects, Preparation, and Racial Disparities

Chemotherapy is a drug treatment used to kill the fast-growing cancer cells in your body. It is also used for other diseases. But the experience, especially side effects, may differ depending on...

Seasonal Affective Disorder is More Than the Winter Blues

The 'most wonderful time of the year' can leave you feeling SAD, which stands for seasonal affective disorder. It is a type of depression...

How Sleep Affects Chronic Disease

New research confirms that poor sleep habits are tied to chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and depression. Those risks run deeper than...

Are You Too Thin to Have Prediabetes?

Many people assume that if they are thin or “normal weight”, they are automatically safe from type 2 diabetes. This is not necessarily the...

Stop Believing These 11 Diabetes Myths

It’s time to clear the air on some of the most common myths about diabetes. More than 38 million U.S. adults are living with...

Cataracts and Eye Health in the Black Community: Understanding Risks and Taking Action

African Americans are at a higher risk for certain eye diseases, including cataracts, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy. These conditions are often linked to other...

Prioritizing Men’s Health: An Essential Checklist for Every Age

Taking charge of your health is a responsibility that should never be overlooked, regardless of your gender. However, men, including African American men, often...

Why You Should Wear Sunglasses Year Round

Sunglasses make you stylish, but that's not the main reason to wear them. They are essential to consider when it comes to your eye...

What’s Your Glaucoma Risk?

Glaucoma is caused when your eyes can’t maintain an appropriate balance between the amount of internal fluid produced by the eye and the amount...

Your Eye Exam Is Open Now

We’ve been hunkered down for a while, and for many that’s meant delaying routine visits at the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control...

Watch Out for These 5 Summer Eye Dangers

You protect your skin from sunburn and your body from injury, so why not your eyes? During summertime activities, one specialist has simple advice: Protect...

My hATTR Amyloidosis Story: A Diagnosis Leads to Advocacy

Jean Williams, 65, has been seeing the same primary care physician for years. Perhaps this familiarity afforded her the ease with which to openly...

hATTR: No Longer a Rare Diagnosis

You’ve probably not heard much about amyloidosis, a group of conditions caused by the buildup in the body of misfolded transthyretin (TTR) proteins called...

We Have What? hATTR Amyloidosis: My Family’s Journey

Black Health Matters and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals: Understanding hATTR Amyloidosis Series Every so often an opinion poll goes around on social media asking if folks would...

Black Health Matters and Alnylam Partner to Raise Awareness of Hereditary ATTR Amyloidosis

-- African Americans are at an increased risk of carrying a genetic mutation associated with hereditary ATTR amyloidosis – -- Partnership is a continuation of...

What Aging Reveals About Mental Health

Alzheimer's diagnoses often come later, limiting access to early care and support. Dr. Sharon A. Brangman, a geriatrician and educator and board member of the McKnight...

Kandi Burruss Reveals Her Aunt Bertha Has Alzheimer’s Disease

Kandi Burruss revealed that her aunt Bertha Jones had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease during an Amazon Live session. The Grammy winner, actress, and...

Can a Shingles Vaccine Reduce Your Risk for Dementia?

If you just read the headlines, you probably saw studies suggest that getting Shingrix or the Zostavax vaccines not only protects against shingles but...

Staying Sharp: 6 Pillars of Brain Health

For those aged 50 and above, keeping your mind sharp is not just about memory. Overall well-being and quality of life are key factors...

Excessive TV Time Linked to Heart Risk in Black Folks

You may want to think again before you watch your next streaming series back-to-back. Research suggests that excessive TV time may be particularly harmful....

What You Eat (And When) Can Affect Your Weight & Heart

Intermittent Fasting (IF) has provided some with a short-term solution for weight loss, but at what cost? Three studies say it may be putting...

Obesity and Your Health: The Risks You Can’t Ignore

Obesity is a serious and chronic condition that impacts nearly every aspect of a person's health. It is far more than concerns related to...

Demystifying Elevated Lipoproteins: How They Impact Heart Health in African Americans

Dr. Sara Collins is an Interventional Cardiologist in Bowie, Maryland. She earned her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her medical degree from Meharry...

Unveiling the Factors: Why African Americans Are Prone to Major Heart Issues

Have you ever wondered why some people are more likely to have heart problems than others? We know that African Americans have a higher...

Hepatitis C: A Silent Threat to the Black Community

Hepatitis C can be referred to as a “silent killer” because you can have it for years without knowing—until it’s too late. For many...

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How Music is Matching the Moment for Millennial Health

90s babies are aging, and healthcare is catching up. Black Millennials might still be suffering from the pop lock and drop it era, but random...

The FDA Approved a Twice-Yearly HIV Drug, Will it Be Accessible?

On June 18th, the FDA approved Yeztugo (lenacapavir), a medication developed by Gilead Sciences. It is described as an injectable HIV-1 capsid inhibitor as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)...

Medicaid Should Make Longer Acting HIV Medication Accessible

Medicaid covers roughly 40% of non-elderly adults with HIV in the United States. People with HIV make up 1% of beneficiaries and 2% of...

Gender-Affirming Care Supports Transgender People

Amidst an avalanche of legislative challenges to gender-affirming care, Amida Care and National Trans Visibility March are doubling down on their commitment to uplifting...

From Stigma to Support: HIV Awareness in the Black Community

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a significant public health challenge, disproportionately affecting the Black community. Despite advances in treatment and prevention, the stigma surrounding...

What Black Women Need to Know About HIV

Black women are disproportionately impacted by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) when compared to other races. We account for less than 15% of the female...

Aging with HIV: Understanding HIV in Older Adults

Older adults are an often overlooked demographic when discussing Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more...

HIV in Focus: Living Positively

Over 1 million people 13 years and older are living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the United States, and people of color are...

Hypertension

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Prevent Chronic Diseases Before They Happen

Healthcare starts in the kitchen. Chef Alexis Aquino educated attendees at the Black Health Matters Harlem Health Summit about the importance of connecting the...

Motivated to Move: Exercising With a Chronic Condition

Living with a chronic condition comes with its own set of challenges. But Yolanda Sarrabo's, CPT, BCS, experience with multiple myeloma catalyzed transformation. She...

Obesity and Heart Health: Why Early Weight Management Matters

For many of us, heart disease may feel like an inevitable part of life. We’ve likely watched a family member struggle with navigating the...

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Redefining Health for our Community: Let’s Talk Hypertension and Kidney Care

Redefining Health for our Community: Let's Talk Hypertension and Kidney Care Sponsored By Astrazeneca Kemi Williams led a conversation designed to raise awareness of options available to those...

How Do Health Numbers Connect to Weight and Overall Health?

We all say we want to be healthy, but what do we mean when we say that? The World Health Organization defines it as...

Signs Of Vitamin D Deficiency

Did you know four out of ten people in the U.S. have a Vitamin D deficiency? Not to mention it is surprisingly an overlooked deficiency....

Kidney Disease

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What’s In Them Genes? Let’s Learn About AMKD

APOL1-mediated kidney disease does not have a face. It is a gene-related condition that can impact a Black person from any background, from a...

Ex-NBA-Player Nate Robinson Has A Successful Kidney Transplant

Last spring, we reported that ex-NBA player Nate Robinson desperately needed a new kidney. He admitted to The Daily Mail that he feared he wouldn't live much longer...

Yo-Yo Dieting Can Make You Gain Weight

Yo-yo dieting won’t go away despite the risks. Slow, steady, and sustainable changes are the bedrock of any long-term health journey, but that doesn’t...

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Redefining Health for our Community: Let’s Talk Hypertension and Kidney Care

Redefining Health for our Community: Let's Talk Hypertension and Kidney Care Sponsored By Astrazeneca Kemi Williams led a conversation designed to raise awareness of options available to those...

Social Determinants and Lupus Care in the Black Community

When it comes to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and social determinants of health (SDoH), it's clear that these issues go hand in hand, especially...

Lupus Management With Holistic & Integrative Medicine (What You Should Know)

We understand that living with lupus presents unique challenges. The constant battle against fatigue, pain, and unpredictable flares can be discouraging. We spoke with...

Unveiling The Invisible: Marti Hines Sheds Light On The Challenges of M.S.

In late 2019, Marti Hines took a big step forward when she decided to share her personal journey with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in a...

What African Americans Need to Know About Multiple Sclerosis

Although multiple sclerosis has historically been thought to primarily affect Whites, recent studies show that Blacks in the U.S. are actually more at risk...

Multiple Sclerosis Warrior Dedicated to Helping Others

When Vickie Whyte began experiencing issues with her eyesight in 2007, she wasn’t alarmed. “I thought I’d see an eye doctor and get my...

The Rise of Celebrity-Endorsed Calories

Celebrity-endorsed calories became a real force in 2020 when Travis Scott's Cactus Jack Meal took over McDonald's. Stores ran out of ingredients, lines wrapped...

How Sleep Affects Chronic Disease

New research confirms that poor sleep habits are tied to chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and depression. Those risks run deeper than...

Inside Rick Ross’s Health Transformation

Rick Ross built a public persona around confidence. When his health gave out mid-flight, the consequences were immediate. That moment forced him to rethink...

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Prevent Chronic Diseases Before They Happen

Healthcare starts in the kitchen. Chef Alexis Aquino educated attendees at the Black Health Matters Harlem Health Summit about the importance of connecting the...