Category: Health
The View’s Joy Behar wants Latinas to pay attention to their heart (health)
LatinaLista — When it comes to heart disease, Latinos are in a good position, not great, but good. In general, Latinos are 10 percent less likely to have coronary heart disease than non-Hispanic white adults and less likely to have high blood pressure, a contributing factor to heart disease, than non-Hispanic blacks. Yet, heart disease [...]
Guest Voz: Domestic violence still taboo among Latinos
LatinaLista – October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic violence is a real issue among Latinos but it’s an issue that doesn’t get enough attention — especially for Spanish-speaking victims. One author wants to change that. Dr. Celso William Chignoli wrote the book Violencia doméstica: Detección, prevención, y ayuda (Domestic Violence: Detection, prevention and help). In [...]
AIDS Cases on Rise in San Diego Latinos
La Prensa San Diego SAN DIEGO — New estimates identify Latino gay men as moving from the fourth to third most impacted population in new HIV cases. In an effort to educate and reduce the number of infected Latinos, CLASP (Coalition of Latino Aids Service Providers) hosts for the fourth time, a family event for [...]
Marchers against domestic violence take to the streets in Lawrence
By Alberto Suris Rumbo News LAWRENCE — As the City of Lawrence continues to grieve over recent deaths linked to domestic violence, this year’s annual “Brides’ March” offered a much-needed opportunity to foster awareness and healing from the crisis of domestic violence. The Brides’ March is a walk held each year in a number of [...]
New report says hunger in America is solved with one thing — jobs
LatinaLista — Hunger costs our nation at least $167.5 billion. It’s a cost that is only getting larger as more people are hit by the recession and are having to choose between buying food or paying for housing and utilities. In the just released report: Hunger in America: Suffering We All Pay For published by [...]
New poll shows Latino parents still hesitant to have “THE sex talk” with their kids
LatinaLista — A new poll released by New York University’s Silver School of Social Work’s Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) and Planned Parenthood shows that 82 percent of parents are having a “sex talk” with their children. The problem is most of them are not having “THE sex talk.” The poll of [...]
New study shows youth gun violence among at-risk Latinos and blacks is all too common and “easy”
LatinaLista — According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, California ranks as the top state in the nation with the “strongest gun laws that help combat the illegal gun market, prevent the sale of guns without background checks and reduce risks to children.” Yet, a new report on youth gun violence released this [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Protecting the rights of crime victims
LatinaLista — Being a crime victim can be the most helpless and lonely position a person can find themselves in. For the vast majority of crime victims, it is a new experience that creates a whole new range of emotions to be experienced and thrusts a person into a legal system most only know via [...]
US medical volunteers bring impoverished Guatemalan women the dream of walking without pain
LatinaLista — Antigua, Guatemala has a lot of things going for it — beautifully preserved Spanish Mudéjar-influenced Baroque architecture; spectacular ruins of colonial churches; an internationally recognized destination for Spanish language study and within sight of three large volcanoes. Yet, the city, like the rest of Guatemala, is home to many indigenous people who can’t [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Keeping needy children warm with a new coat
LatinaLista — For every coat we buy, a child will be warm this winter. For every coat we don’t buy, a child will be cold. It was in 2006 that a group of friends in Chicago, who decided that it would be more meaningful to buy Christmas gifts for a family in need rather than [...]
