Many young immigrants in California don’t realize that they may be eligible for health coverage, even if they don’t have legal status. But even if they are aware, there’s another hurdle — the cost of the application. As Natalie Jones reports, the fee to apply for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival status is $465 per person.
Sara Pol-Lim, the Executive Director of the United Cambodian Community in Long Beach, is open about the horrors of her childhood. She was 9 years old the day that Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge, the brutal regime that murdered millions of Cambodians.
UCSF Medical Center is set to open a new woman’s hospital next year, one that is is part of a growing trend toward research and health care geared specifically to women’s needs.
Today is World Tuberculosis (TB) Day which marks the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that cause TB.
A new analysis by researchers at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University finds that frequent experiences of racism are associated with a higher risk of obesity among African American women. That link was strongest among women who reported consistently high experiences of racism over a 12-year period. The research was based on data from the Black Women’s Health Study, a longitudinal study that enrolled 59,000 African-American women in 1995 and has followed them continually.
An analysis of data on over 16,000 Hispanic participants from a variety of countries finds wide variety in diseases, risk factors and lifestyles among people who identify as Hispanic in the U.S.
The initiative, called My Brother’s Keeper, will seek solutions to the problems that face boys and young men of color in a public-private partnership supported by a roster of major foundations, including the Ford Foundation, the Annie E Casey Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the California Endowment.* A total of 10 foundations have committed to raise $200 million and pledged $7.5 million to create a blueprint and coordinate action on the initiative.
Although car crashes among children age 12 and younger fell by 43 percent from 2002-2011, 9,000 children died during that period. The children killed in those crashes were more likely to be Black or Hispanic than white, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.)
But advocates say the law has a long way to go to make trans men and women visible in a system that makes them invisible By Angela Woodall Not long ago, Tiffany Woods received a letter from her doctor that it was time to have a regular cancer screening. Millions of women receive similar notices for cervical cancer prevention every year. Only Woods was born
A new poll conducted by National Public Radio, the Harvard School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on the views of Latinos in the US about their health and health care, communities, financial situation, and discrimination in their lives finds that Latino families see diabetes as the greatest health problem for their families.