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Health Risks Of Living In US Border Colonias Prompt Funding Increase Proposal

NewsTaco April 20, 2015

*This is very good news! There are twenty-five hundred colonias along the U.S.-Mexico border where conditions are equal to third-world standards. President Obama wants to increase funding by 50 percent […]

Latino Families Find Eldercare A Tough But Beautiful Mission

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Latino Health Care 5 Years After the ACA: Findings from the Latino National Health and Immigration Survey

NewsTaco March 30, 2015

A U.S. visa could save a young Mexican man’s life. Why can’t he get one?

NewsTaco March 27, 2015

*The State Department and Homeland Security have a humanitarian parole in the works for Chua Lopez, but it’s not a Visa. The authorities haven’t said why they’ve denied the Visa. […]

Insuring undocumented residents could help solve multiple U.S. health care challenges

NewsTaco March 20, 2015

*Two things stand out in this article: the authors of the study and the specificity of their findings. The three authors, researchers at UCLA and Berkeley, are Latino, and they’re […]

Vulnerable Latino Elders Face Shortage of Geriatric Health Professionals

NewsTaco March 16, 2015

*In their later years my parents received the best medical care available to them. That was becasue mom was a public health nurse, so coordinating the team effort between multiple […]

Hispanics face serious drinking water issue along Texas border

NewsTaco March 10, 2015

*This is also part of the national Latino narrative. There are places in Latino concentrated South Texas where as many as 90 thousand people have no running water. It’s also […]