LatinaLista — There’s no denying the Latino population is growing. With the growth, there comes a growing debate as to how to classify Latinos — as a race or as an ethnic group? Classifying Latinos as a race removes Latinos from self-identifying as white, black, Native American, etc. and creates a separate category. Labeling Latinos [...]
Breast cancer tissue bank strives to broaden diversity of samples to help Latinas, blacks and Asians
LatinaLista — Breast cancer may not discriminate with whom it targets but not all breast cancer is the same inwho gets it. The medical community recognizes that breast cancer, as all cancers, behave differently in people of different ethnicities. That wasn’t always the case. It used to be considered a one-size-disease-fits-all until doctors noticed, for [...]
Facebook games strives to help high schoolers and college students deal with suicide
LatinaLista — Dealing with the suicide of a loved one or friend is a tough enough thing to handle but for young people it can be devastating. Instead of talking about it with a counselor, a lot of young people will suppress their feelings about what happened. A new Facebook game hopes to help those [...]
New online tool helps paint a more accurate picture of the state of Latino children
LatinaLista — To paraphrase a popular saying: As the well-being of Latino children goes, so goes the nation. It’s an understatement to say that the future of the nation depends, in large part, on how well today’s Latino children are prepared for it. They’re a demographic who will fulfill today’s predictions of a Latino majority [...]
In the history of social media, Latinos play a big part
LatinaLista — Since so many readers were having difficulty enlarging the infographic on the LL Facebook page, I’ve decided to create a post featuring it. It really is an interesting snapshot of just how quickly technology has transformed our world. Regardless of the claims that social media isolates people, we now know that’s not the [...]
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week serves to remind that lead poisoning is still an issue
LatinaLista — It seems like every other month some product made in China or Mexico is being recalled in the United States because unhealthy levels of lead were found to be in it. The latest was a shipment of Halloween costumes made in China. Federal inspectors have seized nearly 1,400 Chinese-made pirate costumes being shipped [...]