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Tackling Growing Substance Abuse Among Hispanics

Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com As it enters its 45th year of treating substance abuse, Hartford-based Youth Challenge of Connecticut, […]

Latino health is affected by factors like food, genetics and lifestyle. Unfortunately, the combination of traditional cultural dishes

Hispanic women with five or more children are more likely to develop the heart condition ventricular diastolic dysfunction, compared

Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews As Access Health CT’s 2014-15 enrollment for the Affordable Care Act gets under way one

Medicare-funded breast cancer screenings jumped 44 percent from $666 million to $962 million from 2001 to 2009, yet those

Annika Darling CTLatinoNews.com Hollywood movie star Elizabeth Pena passed away recently from “cirrhosis of the liver due to

Recently immigrated Hispanic youth experience high levels of stress when it comes to acculturation, and while they may seem to

Annika Darling CTLatinoNews There are major issues that Latinos encounter when seeking health care — which is not

Dr. Erin Hofstatter, a young research scientist and breast cancer specialist at Yale’s Smilow Cancer Hospital, often prescribes tamoxifen,

US Rep. Rosa DeLauro and leading breast cancer experts from The Breast Center-Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven and the

Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com A small army of volunteers, notably 100 healthcare professionals, are helping to make the 2014

According to the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention , since 2010, 1 in 68 children in the U.S. has