LatinaLista February is National Wedding Month. Not too hard to guess why — the 2009 American Wedding Study released by Brides.com found that 10 percent of proposals take place on Valentine’s Day. The survey also found that 86 percent of brides-to-be followed the “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue tradition.” But what [...]
When it comes to Latina teen pregnancies, California’s doing something right
LatinaLista Something good is happening in California. For a state more accustomed to bad news — a broke state economy, a slashing of public services, an increase in health premiums by the state’s largest health insurer, rising college tuition rates, escalating home foreclosures, crime, etc. — today’s news that the state’s Latina teens are having [...]
Avon survey finds uninsured women victims of new breast cancer screening recommendations
LatinaLista Remember when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released their controversial recommendations last November for how often women should be screened for breast cancer? They recommended against routine mammography screening for women aged 40 to 49 years and recommended screening every other year between the ages of 50 and 74 years, but didn’t [...]
Puerto Rico: Athletes at the Special Olympics LatinoAmerican Games play for more than to win the gold
By Natalia A. Bonilla Berrios LatinaLista SAN JUAN — It started at 6 p.m. The launch of the first event of its kind to ever be held on the Island, left 20,000 spectators ecstatic. On February 20, Puerto Rico became host to the II Latinoamerican Games of the Special Olympics 2010 in the Hiram Bithorn [...]
Life’s lessons prove to be a challenging class to master for one young man
By Jo Ann Hernandez LatinaLista — Marcelo in the Real World, by Francisco Stork, is the tale of Marcelo Sandoval, a 17-year-old with an Asperger’s-like condition. He is forced to exit his comfort zone when his high-powered father steers Marcelo to work in his law firm’s mailroom (in return, Marcelo can decide whether to stay in special [...]
Creating healthy relationships from broken homes
By Jo Ann Hernandez LatinaLista — In Parents Who Cheat: How Children and Adults Are Affected When Their Parents Are Unfaithful, Ana Nogales, Ph.D., combines her experience from her thirty-five years of clinical practice with her current research, which includes an unprecedented ‘Parents Who Cheat Survey,’ to reveal the profound effects on children and adult children [...]
