Comment Now: Increase Latino Representation in Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials!
The National Institute of Aging (NIA) is seeking comments and suggestions on how it can implement community-based research networks to increase divers…
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Introducing Clean Hands & Spaces Bilingual Training
Did you know that good hand hygiene can result in less gastrointestinal and respiratory illness and fewer missed school days? Good hygiene practices a…
Gregory Aune: The Gear Up Against Kids Cancer Bike Ride
Gregory Aune was 16 when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Aune spent a year enduring grueling treatment, losing over 70 pounds. But he surv…
How Does Infection Control Work on COVID-19 Variants Like Omicron?
COVID-19 has changed a lot of practices for frontline healthcare workers, from screening employees and patients at entrances to wearing masks all the …
Salud Talks Episode 39: Prehabilitation and What It Means for Latinos
Most of us know what rehabilitation is. It is care that can help you get back to normal or improve skills after a disease or injury. Unfortunately…
More Latino Men Are Dying by Suicide, Even as the National Rate Declines
By Jim Morris Public Health Watch While still jarringly high, U.S. suicide rates fell in 2019 and again in 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and P…
María Elena Bottazzi: The Latina Scientist Who Helped Create a COVID-19 Vaccine
When María Elena Bottazzi left Honduras, she never expected to one day be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Bottazzi is a microbiologist at the Texa…
Webinar 3/17/22: How to Work with Local Leaders to Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis
Decades of explicit and implicit racism in social, economic, and political systems have led to inequitable outcomes in communities of color with heavy…
Latino Cancer: ¿Sabia Usted?
Latinos are a dynamic, diverse, rising population. But cancer threatens the future health of the U.S. Latino population. This is why our Salud America…
#SaludTues Tweetchat 4/5: How to Encourage and Achieve Diversity in Cancer Clinical Trials
Clinical trials have led to the development of better treatments, life-saving medicines, and new prevention strategies for many cancer types. Stil…
