Earlier this week, the Latino Commission on AIDS, the Hispanic Health Network and other affiliate organizations hosted the Third Annual Latino Health Advocacy Day in Manhattan, which educated the public about aging HIV-infected Latinos, strategies to engage Latino gay men, disparities and eliminating barriers, as well as safeguarding the future of young blacks and Latinos.
A variant of HIV has been found in Cuba, according to recent reports; and the mutation is said to be far more aggressive and rapid spreading than any other documented forms of the life-claiming virus.
Happy-go-lucky millennials who are mostly athletic or healthy might find themselves suffering from cardiovascular disease when they're in their 50s or 60s, based on slightly elevated cholesterol levels during their younger years.
With less than three weeks before the second open enrollment period of the Health Insurance Marketplace concludes, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealed 2.5 million enrollees are mostly millennials.
Health insurance plan selections significantly increased during the ninth week of the second open enrollment period of the ederally Facilitated Marketplace, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Spanish and Mexican researchers have identified the specific molecule in a protein/protease that prevents the generation of fat cells. Those researchers committed 18 months to the creation of a drug to fight obesity. The timing is impeccable, as two new studies have just unveiled that obesity increases the risk of particular types of breast cancer in African-American and Hispanic women, especially if they're postmenopausal.
The second open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act's Federal Marketplace is scheduled to reopen in two months, and health care agencies have been learning how to decrease the rate of uninsured Latinos.
Conventional thoughts about health and wellness are reinvented in the hands of Hispanic millennials, whose attitudes and behaviors regarding health, diet, and exercise, as well as health-related technology, insurance and the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) differ from their elders.
Esmeralda Santiago, the acclaimed Puerto Rican author, suffered a stroke in January 2008 while completing her epic novel "Conquistadora." The effect of her stroke was the development of a condition known as aphasia, which devastated her ability to read and hindered her capacity to produce written language.
The largest Latino-themed environmental festival, "A New Shade of Green," will be held in Colorado this fall to address those concerns; attendees will discuss counter measures and environmental protection, an important issue that's important to the U.S. Hispanic community.
With the U.S. Latino population rapidly increasing, the American Heart Association revealed healthcare professionals will have to better understand their "unique" heart health risks.
Untreated tooth decay is nearly twice as common among Hispanic primary school children as non-Hispanic whites. Also, only 19 percent of working-age Hispanic adults in America have all of their teeth, compared to 35 percent of whites.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, the adult U.S. Latino population has lower rates of asthma than the general population (7.3 percent compared to 8.4 percent), but Latino children have higher than average rates for asthma, and those rates are escalating.