It’s also two-to-three times more common in African American women, per Johns Hopkins Medicine. He emphasized that lupus is something patients have to learn to live with throughout their life.

Lupus is two to three times more prevalent among Black, Hispanic/Latina, Asian American, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander women than among white ... cataracts ...

It’s more common in women between ages 40 and 60 and in people ... your wrist sideways (the Finkelstein test), according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons-run site OrthoInfo.

South African scientists have identified two new breast cancer genes -- RAB27A and USP22 -- in Black women, marking the first GWAS of its kind on the continent. This breakthrough highlights the need ...

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month.

mainly African American women of West African descent. A DNA-based tool used to estimate lifetime cancer risk, known as the polygenic risk score (PRS), proved ineffective at identifying the ...

However, while lupus primarily impacts women ages 15-44, nearly half of Americans (40%) said they did not know that children can also develop the disease. Up to 20% of people with lupus are diagnosed ...

She’s the first woman and first African American to fill the role. Carla Hayden had been targeted by right-wing groups for pushing so-called woke books for children, like books that promote ...

with studies of African ancestry limited primarily to African- American women, who largely descend from West African populations. A tool that estimates lifetime cancer risk based on DNA ...

The overall cardiovascular disease-related death rate in individuals with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases declined from 3.9 to 2.1 per 100,000 in women and from 1.7 to 1.2 per 100,000 in men ...

This gap has driven my research into the disease. I conducted the first genetic case-control study on pre-eclampsia among African women in comparison to European women over a decade ago for my Ph ...