Latinas struggle from Texas family-planning clinics cuts
Latinas struggle from Texas family-planning clinics cuts
By Hope Gillette, Saludify Approximately 25 percent of state-funded family-planning clinics in Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley closed after funding was cut in 2011, leaving a number of women, particularly […]
Hispanics Overcoming Barriers to Elders’ End-of-Life Care
By Gerardo Fernandez, Alianza Metropolitan News/New America Media SAN JOSE, Calif.–Maria Lacayo’s mother was diagnosed with dementia 13 years ago, and soon after with Alzheimer’s. Since then, Maria has taken care of […]
Young Latinos Are Feeling the Positive Effects of the Affordable Care Act
By Jose Aristimuno, Latinovations If you’ve ever shopped for health insurance, you know that the prices for adequate health care, whether for an individual or a family, are unreachable. In […]
Obamacare Spanish-Language Enrollment Website Delayed Until Mid-October
By Fox News Latino In another delay for the Affordable Care Act, White House officials quietly told Hispanic groups on Wednesday that the Spanish-language version of the healthcare.gov website will […]
What are curanderos in Hispanic cultures?
By Hope Gillette, Saludify Despite the push to visit Western doctors, receive preventative care and become knowledgeable about common ailments in the community, many Hispanics living in the United States still […]
LATISM13 conference: harnessing social media to improve Latinos’ lives
By Maria Camila Bernal, NBCLatino In less than five years, Latinos in Social Media (LATISM) has been able to unite thousands of Latinos in the nation in hopes of helping advance their social, […]
The Trouble With Enrolling In The Affordable Care Act
By Jude Joffe-Block, Kate Sheehy, Tristan Ahtone, Fronteras Across the Southwest, groups are canvassing neighborhoods to inform uninsured people about how to sign up for coverage under Obama’s Affordable Care Act beginning Oct. […]
Latino Health Workers Bridge Clinics and Community
By Callie Shanafelt, New America Media Elizabeth Luciano sits in her small office looking compassionately at the young mother complaining of stomach pain. She was undocumented and had no health insurance. […]
Fight Leukemia and Lymphoma, It’s one click away
By Leyla Fletcher, Arenas Entertainment For 25 years, Arenas has been a leader in Hollywood because of our passion for combining entertainment with our Latino culture. We also have a […]
Healthy Chicas aims to help overweight Latinas in Miami
By Elizabeth de Armas, Miami Herald Every Monday, Iomara Morejon looks forward to attending Healthy Chicas, a program at Miami Children’s Hospital that is designed to empower overweight and obese […]
