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Classes are back in session this week at many school districts, including at Chicago Public Schools. As the pandemic continues to evolve, this year comes with new COVID-19 protocols.  “The science is pretty much supporting all the changes that CDC is doing,” said Dr. Geraldine Luna, medical director at the Chicago Department of Public Health. “The reports …

A recent study calls into question a notion called the Latino Epidemiological Paradox: that Hispanics have better health outcomes than non-Hispanic white people. Researchers at the University of Miami recently found that based on a dataset from the National Institutes of Health, Latinos had a higher, not lower, prevalence of cardiovascular disease than white people …

In December 2020, Illinois expanded Medicaid to provide health coverage to immigrant adults ages 65 and older. Now, another expansion offers health care benefits to low-income immigrants ages 55 to 64 starting May 1.  Dr. Yolanda Escalona, medical director of Cook County Health’s Arlington Heights clinic, says the expansion was necessary to help protect the …

Boston — The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) and the Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced $2.3 million in grants awarded to provide recovery-based services for Black and Latino men who are at risk of fatal overdoses upon release from incarceration. The pilot program will serve Black and Latino men with a …

With the COVID-19 pandemic taking a disproportionate toll on low-income people of color, a research team headed by Marya Gwadz of the Silver School of Social Work at New York University set out to understand the ways the pandemic may put individuals at risk for adverse outcomes, and the ways they successfully adapted to and …

Esta nota también está disponible en español en La Noticia. About a third of Latinos eligible to vote in North Carolina have yet to register. The regular registration period ended Oct. 9, so their only chance to cast a ballot is by going to an early voting site before Oct. 31. But Latinos face many …

Alisha Álvarez, 28, said a final goodbye to her father at his funeral service Friday, still wondering if she could have done more to convince him that he didn’t have to go to work if he feared contracting coronavirus. José Roberto Álvarez Mena, her dad, was one of thousands of essential workers who showed up …

Kristin Urquiza, 39, was grieving over the fact that her family could only allow about a dozen people at the burial of her father, Mark Anthony Urquiza, after his long battle against the coronavirus. “It was so heartbreaking — my father deserved to have his entire community there to put him to rest,” Kristin told …

The police chief of Tucson, Ariz., abruptly offered to resign on Wednesday while releasing a video in which a 27-year-old Latino man, Carlos Ingram Lopez, died in police custody two months ago. The video, taken by police officers’ body cameras and not made public until Wednesday, depicts a gruesome episode on April 21. Before his …

For many linguistic minorities, especially Latinos, access to mental health or substance abuse resources is already scarce, said Margarita Alegria, the chief of the disparities research unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. But now, “the isolation, fear about the future, and economic uncertainty is all going to …