A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high b...
Bob Esponja—SpongeBob SquarePants—dances in his spurs as an announcer greets young viewers with a jaunty “Oye vaquero!”—Hello cowboys! Then ...
Founded in 1975, the National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN) filled a gap in the country’s medical community by offering a resource for nurse...
English-speaking Hispanics in the United States are less likely to take measures to protect themselves from skin cancer than Spanish-speaking Hispanic...
Voxxi, the site targeting bicultural Latinos, is introducing a new health site called Saludify.com. The site is designed to provide Latinos with daily...
More than 3 million Hispanics in the United States live with asthma, according to the most recent data from The Office of Minority Health (OMH). Hispa...
February is American Heart Month, and while awareness is important for people of all ages and ethnicities, certain groups—like Latinos—are at a hi...
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, an important time at the beginning of the year when an emphasis is placed on women’s health and cancer a...
Diabetes and obesity is a one-two punch that will continue to knock out the Latino community unless families begin to adopt lifestyle changes, accordi...
Latinos in Ventura County are four times less likely to have health insurance than white non-Hispanics. Their median income -- $21,693 -- is less than...
A new guidebook developed by researchers from Kansas State University is aimed at improving Hispanic health in the U.S. by creating a culturally-relev...
Heritage may be universal within the Hispanic community, but it seems health isn’t. According to two recently published twin studies -- one focu...
Two years ago, we fought for and achieved a law that stood to make health care better for those who already had coverage and provide affordable insurance for the millions who did not. The naysayers have yet to produce a better solution
It might be hard to tell a chubby-cheeked gordito that he can have only one helping of flan after dinner, but doctors say a healthy diet and good exe...
As a pediatric pulmonologist I see the burden faced by families due to asthma on a daily basis. The emotional, physical, and economic costs are overwhelming.
As patients, we have the responsibility to observe our bodies and share our findings, let them be known so that paradigms can be shifted and abusive market dominant positions undermined.
Although Latinos represent nearly 17 percent of the overall population, the Census Bureau reports Hispanics are glaringly underrepresented in healthcare fields making up only two percent of nurses, just over three percent of pharmacists, and under four percent of physicians.
For or against it, hundreds of people will line up on the steps to try and secure one of the limited seats in the Court reserved for the public. And for good reason: The Supreme Court's decision will have major bearing on the health care experiences of Americans for generations to come.
“Apparently Hispanics are the group that’s growing the quickest, not only in population numbers but in weight! We’re number 1!” says iLatino h...
LOS ANGELES -- Just a few days before the AIDS Walk in Los Angeles will take place on Oct. 16, the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
I'm more committed than ever to do all that's in my power to fight for clean air and to encourage other parents to stay informed on their child's condition.
Jonah Garcia is a social worker with what may be one of the toughest gigs in the country. Garcia is a program director at La Clinica de Familia Do...
Latino children are in the midst of a nutrition crisis. New food data released by the USDA show that for the third year in a row, Hispanic children make up the largest share of children living in hunger nationwide.
There were 415 Latino inmates in Illinois State prisons and local jails per 100,000 residents in 2005, compared to 223 whites and 2,020 blacks.
