Category: Health
Spotlight Nonprofit: Veterans find strength and support to combat physical and mental wounds
LatinaLista — The five stars in the logo of the newly launched You Are Strong! non-profit symbolize the five main branches of the military: The Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. You Are Strong! founder Xiomara A. Sosa, a veteran herself of the Army and Air Force, knew that for some of [...]
As diabetes month is observed, Hispanics control the disease with diet and exercise
By Juan Miret Hispano de Tulsa TULSA, Oklahoma – Sara López-Covarrubias, 75, and Adán Maya, 31, are part of the statistics that will be heard in November, which is American Diabetes Month and is focused on prevention. The two are among an estimated 25.8 million people in the United States with diabetes. Of that total, [...]
New report reveals Bronx teens have highest rate in the nation for STDs
LatinaLista — The Bronx has been christened with a dubious new title — home to the highest teen pregnancy rate of all of the five New York City boroughs. To top it off, Bronx teens don’t just hold the teen pregnancy record for New York City but their rate of sexually transmitted infections is much [...]
One Latina mother pleads for Congress to pass the Fix Gun Checks Act
LatinaLista — You would think that city mayors are busy enough than to have to caravan to Washington DC to plead for a cause that should be every politician’s top priority — keeping our cities safe. Yet, that’s what happened yesterday when representatives from the Mayors Against Illegal Guns, along with, 50 Americans from across [...]
Hispanics in Massachusetts Burdened by Asthma
Rumbo LAWRENCE — The American Lung Association released a new report, Luchando por el Aire: The Burden of Asthma on Hispanics, which provides an overview of the complex biological, environmental, political and cultural factors that increase asthma’s burden on the Hispanic population in Massachusetts and across the country. This report is part of the Lung [...]
Guest Voz: Medicare Patients Must Defend What Is Left
LatinaLista — While the federal deficit is a scary enough scenario, it remains for too many people an abstract event. It’s not until Washington starts eliminating programs and reducing funding for others that the seriousness of the situation comes home. Unfortunately, the very programs targeted for cuts or elimination are some of the very programs [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Breast cancer survivors asking “Y-Me” find they’re not alone
LatinaLista — No one should face breast cancer alone. That’s the mission focus of the recently launched website for the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization™. The web site, available in both English and Spanish, Y-ME, focuses on the human element of the disease by featuring the “People Behind the Pink” — breast cancer survivors and [...]
New site informs women voters what politicians say about women’s health issues
LatinaLista — Fighting for women’s health rights has been an ongoing struggle ever since women got the right to vote. The struggle has gotten even harder these days with politicians, who in their eternal quest to balance the federal budget have put many programs that address women’s health issues on the chopping block. Too many times, [...]
New report on drug use shows Latino youth choose alcohol over drugs
LatinaLista — A recent survey about teen drug use published by scientists at Duke University in the November issue of the journal Archives of General Psychiatry had both good news and bad news. The good news is that of the 72,561 adolescents ages 12 to 17 who were surveyed, 63 percent did not report having [...]
New report shows sexual harassment takes its toll on Latino students
LatinaLista — A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll reveals that half of Republican primary voters don’t care about the charges of sexual harassment levied against GOP presidential nominee Herman Cain. It seems these adults are right in line with a new study on middle and high schoolers who don’t think sexual harassment is any [...]
