Monthly Archives: February 2014
CDC - Valentine’s Day Tips
Be heart-healthy. Make A Date With Your Heart! February is American Heart Month, and Valentine’s Day is a great time to start taking steps to be heart-healthy. Prevent and control high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Avoid smoking and secondhand smoke. Limit alcohol use. Maintain a healthy weight. Be...
Advocates take the pulse of Latinos’ heart health
A grassroots public education model that fielded a cadre of health mentors from two California counties significantly boosted Latino residents’ knowledge of everything from cholesterol and diabetes to the importance of nutrition and exercise, according to a study organized by the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (SC CTSI). The SC...
Coverage Opportunities and Obstacles for Hispanics Under the ACA
The Hispanic community—a group whose vote is highly valued by both political parties—stands to benefit significantly from the Affordable Care Act (ACA). At least a third of all Hispanics under the age of 65, or 15.3 million people, lack health insurance. According to RAND estimates, 5.4 million of these individuals will...
Map: How Vaccine Fears Fueled The Resurgence Of Preventable Diseases
For most of us, measles and whooping cough are diseases of the past. You get a few shots as a kid and then hardly think about them again. But that’s not the case in all parts of the world — not even parts of the U.S. As an interactive map from the...
Documentary:The Waiting Room
“The crowded emergency room of Highland Hospital in Oakland, Calif., is the setting of Peter Nicks’s wrenching documentary “The Waiting Room.” Shot in 2010 over five months, the film, which has no narrator, titles, statistical analysis or overt editorializing, observes a composite day there during which nearly 250 patients — most of...
