Latina Cervical Cancer Rate Twice National Average

Cervical cancer rates in Los Angeles County show that Latinas and Asian women suffer from higher rates of cancer than other groups, according to this report. Women in LA proper […]

Researchers from California recently found that living near a freeway might correlate with a higher risk of autism. The researchers from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the Keck School of Medicine […]

Televisa, Mexico’s behemoth broadcasting company, had live helicopter-view images of the Tepito marked in Mexico City last night, at midnight. Hundreds of thousands of people packed block after block of […]

I think this is more than a mere battle line. This is digging the trenches, filling the sandbags and raising the flag. There’s gonna be a fight. A cadre of […]

Latino babies are much more likely than white babies to be born with neural tube defects, those are birth defects that affect the brain and spine. A lack of folic […]

The highest percentage ever of Oklahoma’s public school children are Latino, according to recent figures. About 12% of the state’s school population is Latino, compared to 55% white, 18% Native […]

Children in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, are about 300% more likely to suffer from asthma than white kids in the continental U.S., according to the CDC. What’s worse, this […]

One of the great American traits is improvisation. From a nation of immigrants, one of our greatest cultural gifts to the world has been Jazz, the quintessential improvisation. But it […]

According to new Centers for Disease Control information, the teenage Latina pregnancy rate is the lowest it’s been in two decades. In a report, the CDC found that teenage Latina […]

We’ll call it the paradox within the paradox. Scientists and health professionals have been talking and scratching their heads about the Latino paradox for years: the fact that, despite unfavorable […]