Next generation of Latino drug abuse experts at UH to learn, teach
... Sponsored by the UH Graduate College of Social Work's Office for Drug and Social Policy Research (ODSPR), the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse Summer Research Training Institute on Hispanic Drug Abuse is planned for June 4 - 13 at the Hilton University of Houston Hotel. The National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) are also...UCLA study finds severe shortage of Latino dentists
... IMPACT: Latino dentists are likely to both speak Spanish and English, and to practice in areas with heavy Latino populations. As a result, there will be fewer dentists to serve this popu...Surveys find outright hunger among Latino immigrants in North Carolina
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers have found high rates of hunger in surveys of immigrant Latino families in eastern and western North Carolina, southwestern Virginia and Forsyth County.... "Although the United States enjoys a relative lack of hunger, there are segments of the N.C. population Latino immigrants with hunger more severe than areas of pers...Uninsured Latino children more likely not to get medical care
... Latinos are the most uninsured racial/ethnic group of children in the United States, with 22 percent (approximately 3 million) of Latino children les...Study demonstrates successful HIV-prevention program for Latino youth
... ... The i...Tailored HIV-prevention program effective for Latino youth
... HIV and AIDS disproportionately affect Latino youth; the incidence of AIDS was more than three times higher among Latinos than non-Hispanic white teens and adults in 2001, according to background information in the article. Most Latino adolescents with HIV contract the disease through heterosexual contact. Latino youth ar...High-sugar diet pushing some Latino kids toward type 2 diabetes
LOS ANGELES (Nov. 21, 2005)-Overweight Latino children who consume lots of sugar-especially in sugary drinks-show signs of beta cell decline, a precursor of type 2 diabetes, according to researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California....... Nearly one of four Latino children in the United States is overweight, and the problem is worsening. Increasing obesity r...US Latinos may develop Alzheimer's disease symptoms at earlier age than white, non-Latinos
CHICAGO U.S. Latinos develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease earlier, on average, than ...white non-Latino people, according to a study in the May issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.... ...Although Latino people are a geographic and genetically diverse group, some reports suggest that they may differ from Anglo (white non-Latino) individuals in several Alzheimer's...