The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunities and the Center Reproductive Rights have formed a coalition of nearly 60 women's health organizations calling on state lawmakers to promote policies to support women's health and reproductive rights.
Exercise is the key to a fit and healthy life, and it wards off potentially life threatening afflictions, such as heart disease. That said, taking up routine bike riding, running and gym workouts can be hard to commit to, even though new studies show that exercise changes DNA, the shape and performance of genes, which is vital when seeking improved fitness and health.
The Governor of New York announced Wednesday during a year-end cabinet meeting the state will prohibit fracking for natural gas, citing unresolved health concerns and questionable economic benefits.
While the Latino older population is expected to triple by 2050, health experts are projecting that Latinos are disproportionately represented in the older age groups most at risk of Alzheimer's disease.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced approximately 2.5 million health insurance plans were selected since the start of the second open enrollment period, while calls from Spanish-speaking prospective enrollees are up by nearly 30 percent.
"Hagalo por su familia, abrochese el cinturon!," a newly forged campaign, is focused on encouraging safety belt usage, which will ultimately curb fatalities and injuries in the Latino community.
The Supreme Court refused to allow Arizona to enforce stringent restrictions on medical abortions. That decision has left in place a lower court ruling in Planned Parenthood Arizona et al. v. Humble that blocked the rules that regulate where and how women can take drugs to induce abortion. The measure will remain preliminarily blocked while the case moves forward in the federal district court.
The second open enrollment period of the federal HealthCare.gov and state-based health insurance exchanges has its first deadline set for Monday for consumers seeking coverage starting Jan. 1, 2015.
Bolivian President Evo Morales, a socialist who might be best known outside of Latin American politics for calling Israel a terrorist state and kicking a soccer ball around with Oliver Stone while the two men chewed on coca leaves, thinks that too many of the men serving in his army are out of shape. After taking in their leader's complaints about the fatness of Bolivia's finest, security forces have begun to register all of their overweight members.
The second open enrollment period of Healthcare.gov, and its Spanish-language website, has accrued more than one million consumers, days before its first initial deadline.
Columbia Law School has allowed its students to delay final exams due to the "trauma" following two racially-charged cases in which grand juries chose not to indict white police officers involved in the deaths of unarmed black men.
Although Hispanics are nearly twice as likely as non-Hispanic to get diabetes, the perception of the metabolic disease, within the community, varies significantly, according to a new survey by the National Alliance for Hispanic Health.
More than 78 million people in the United States are considered "obese." The life expectancy of that third of the country's population is significantly decreased by their overindulgence, a new study from the McGill University suggests.
Puerto Rico is facing an epidemic with the mosquito-borne illness chikungunya infecting over 10,000 people in the nation, according to a statement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday.
Nearly 6,000 military employees reported sexual assaults this year; an eight percent increase compared to 2013. The Pentagon called the increase in reporting "progress" for its handling of sexual assault, but critics call the numbers "appalling."
With two full weeks into the second open enrollment period of Healthcare.gov, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revealed more than 765,000 health care insurance plans have been selected.
New York City will spend $130 million to reform the way its criminal justice system handles mentally ill inmates, as well as those consistently cycling in and out of prison.
President Barack Obama's immigration reform executive action has paved the way for undocumented immigrants to be eligible for Medicare and Social Security benefits, the White House has confirmed.
