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Latinos Not Ready for Changes in U.S. Health Care System

Mary Mata May 1, 2013

PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 01, 2013– impreMedia and Latino Decisions in conjunction with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Policy Center, today released key findings of a national Latino […]

Minorities Wait Longer For Breast Cancer surgery

Mary Mata April 29, 2013

Latino Children Tragically Boom in Foster Care

Mary Mata

Latinos in Favor of Birth Control & Sexual Education

Mary Mata

By Hope Gillette, Saludify A new poll presented Thursday in a webinar by Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health at the Silver School […]

Why U.S. Latinos Struggle to Seek Mental Health Care

Mary Mata April 23, 2013

By Dr. Elizabeth King, Saludify Although Latinos are an ethnic group at high risk for mental health issues such as depression, anxiety and substance abuse, they are less likely than other groups […]

A Look at Immigrant Patients Deported by Hospitals

Mary Mata

By Associated Press/Boston Herald DES MOINES, Iowa — Over the last five years, American hospitals have sent at least 600 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally back to their home […]

Amaranth, The Seeds That Time Forgot

Mary Mata April 22, 2013

By Saul Elbein, Texas Observer Every morning, while her girls are still in bed, Irma Rosales makes tortillas for breakfast. She prepares the masa, pats it into little cakes, places them […]