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Editorial: There are two health related bills in Sacramento that deserve support. The bills are Timely Access to Birth Control (AB 2348) sponsored by Assembly member Holly J. Mitchell and Safe and Early Access to Reproductive Health Care (AB 1338) sponsored by Senator Christine Kehoe. At the heart of both bills is the goal to [...]

By Angela Reed-Smith Let’s face it, thinking about sexually transmitted infections (STI) is something most people like to avoid. But the reality is that each year approximately 19 million new cases occur in the United States. At least one-in-four teenage girls has an STI. By age 25, approximately half of all sexually active young people [...]

By Lisa Pino Last January, a remarkable thing happened at a popular supermarket in Tampa, Florida. First Lady Michelle Obama visited to announce MiPlato and a partnership with Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States. ¿MiPlato? You might be thinking. ¿Y qué es MiPlato? ` MiPlato is the Spanish version of [...]

By David Bacon New America Media SEELEY, CA — Until his knee gave out, Ramon Villa Jr. dreamed he’d be a soccer star. Across Seeley’s pitted playing field of dirt and grass, he and his friends would chase the ball through the desert sunset every day after school. Seeley’s de facto town center is that [...]

Commentary: By Jessica Arons and Lucy Panza On Friday, February 10 the Obama administration released its final regulation implementing the preventive care provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Heeding the nonpartisan recommendations of the Institute of Medicine, the regulation will require all group and employer health plans, with the exception of some [...]

Por Arturo Gudiño Chong “Vitamina-T”: Tacos, tostadas, tamales, tortillas, tortas, totopos, tlacoyos, etcétera. Un conjunto de antojitos mexicanos ricos en calorías e inofensivos si se consumen moderadamente. La gastronomía de nuestro país es muy variada y su tradición dota de siglos atrás. Sin embargo, cabe mencionar que nuestros ante-pasados no padecían sobrepeso. Actualmente, México tiene [...]

Por Theresa Garcia Una dieta balanceada es muy importante para mantener un peso saludable y una mente sana. Comer vegetales, frutas, carne magra y granos enteros a diario y limitar azucares y comidas altas en grasas, incrementará su energía y le ayudará a sentirse mejor durante el día. Lo mismo aplica para sus hijos, pero [...]

Pide a las Madres que se Unan a la Causa y Prueben el Pañuelo Facial Más Suave del País  Por segundo año consecutivo, la marca Kleenex está instando a los niños hispanos a unirse a la lucha contra el catarro certificándose como Atrapa Estornudos. Esta vez, sin embargo, la marca también busca que mamá se [...]

Por la Dra. Athena Philis-Tsimikas, Scripps Health ¿Es usted uno de los 18.8 millones de adultos y niños en los Estados Unidos a quien le han diagnosticado diabetes, o tal vez uno de los 7 millones que aún no se diagnostica? Ya considerada una epidemia nacional, la diabetes es una enfermedad que afecta la capacidad [...]

While cervical cancer affects all races, Latinas are diagnosed with cervical cancer nearly twice as often as Caucasian, African American and Asian Pacific Islander women. Latinas and African American women are also more likely to die of cervical cancer than Caucasian and Asian Pacific Islanders – due in large part to a lack of screenings [...]

By Zaineb Mohammed New America Media Advocates for both ethnic communities and children reacted with alarm to the state budget that Gov. Jerry Brown proposed last week. The proposal aims to reduce the budget deficit from the $26.2 billion budget hole of one year ago to $9.2 billion through budget cuts and revenue generators amounting [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz     In August of 2010, Patricia Saenz learned about the Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) when her rental house in City Heights tested positive for lead.     The non-profit organization headquartered inNational Cityhelped her begin the lead abatement through a program funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).     [...]

 Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz En agosto del 2010, Patricia Saenz conoció a la Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) cuando la casa que rentaba en City Heights salió positiva en una prueba de plomo. La organización sin fines de lucro con sede en National City le ayudó a iniciar el programa de retiro de plomo a través [...]

(Part II) By Janet Wilson EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second and final part of an investigative report by California Watch, that chronicles the struggle of one Latino family from Maywood, Calif. – a small city in southeast Los Angeles County that sits in a sea of heavy industry — as they attempt to pinpoint [...]

(Part I) By Janet Wilson EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part one of an investigative report by California Watch, that chronicles the struggle of one Latino family from Maywood, Calif. — a small city in southeast Los Angeles County that sits in a sea of heavy industry — as they attempt to pinpoint the cause of [...]

Dra. Collazo-Clavell es endocrinóloga de Mayo Clinic en Rochester, Minnesota     Dra. Collazo-Clavell, ¿Qué es la diabetes mellitus? ¿Y por qué se llama mellitus?     La diabetes es una condición en que el cuerpo está teniendo problemas de controlar el azúcar en la sangre. La insulina es la hormona que controla el azúcar en la [...]

By Mariana Martínez     An 11 year old girl giving birth in Puebla made national headlines in Mexico. Doctors suspect she is the victim of sexual abuse.     The girl is from San Francisco Totimehuacán, a rural community outside Puebla. She arrived to the Women’s Hospital in the capital city, Puebla, in full labor and [...]