From menopause to stress, here is everything Black women need to know about living with and preventing heart disease.

A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, New York's first Black female doctor, and her sister Sarah J. S.

Disparity" is a term that is often stated, but rarely solved-especially for Black women. For generations, the intersection of ...

Brittney Saunders Graves discusses the power of self-advocacy and why she refused to stay silent in the face of medical ...

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Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

Training and products for health professionals are now available at the hospital to be used on patients with textured hair.

More insight is being provided into Sophia Jones' seminal work detailing Black health issues in the United States over a century ago.

Black women are nearly seven times more likely to die than white women from a pregnancy-related death in New Jersey. Several ...

The legacies of Black women continue to be celebrated in named and traditional memorials, by generations of memorializers and ...

Dr. Rachel Delsarte shares her journey from Spelman to Morehouse School of Medicine, discussing the challenges and triumphs of working in primary care.

Today, millions of Americans live with undetected hypertension, unaware that it can impact even the healthiest of individuals — a lesson that Naomi Saucer* would come to learn ...