While sunscreen has the potential to reduce skin cancer for light-skinned people, it has never been shown to do the same for Black people. Yet that distinction is lacking in public health messaging.
Blacks have twice the incidence rates for Alzheimer’s as whites.
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Blacks are at higher risk for many diseases. This is partly due to poverty, discrimination and lack of access to care. But there may be something different about the higher rates of Alzheimer’s.
An image of Bob Marley at a Bob Marley Exhibit in Miami Oct. 16, 2013.
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