Oprah Winfrey also praises the life of AIDS activist Hydeia Broadbent. Plus: A list of other LGBTQ allies and winners at the 2024 GLAAD Media Awards.

Starr County, a largely rural, Hispanic community on the southern U.S. border, made headlines in 2024 when it voted Republican in a presidential election for the first time in more than a century.

Features Checking the Facts on Medicaid Use by Latinos A KFF analysis found that nearly 67% of Latinos on Medicaid work, higher than the percentages for other racial and ethnic groups. March 24, 2025 ...

“They were marching the snot out of us,” he said, recalling his year and a half stationed on the base, from 1979 to 1980. He also remembers, not so fondly, the poison oak pervasive across the ...

The dramatic expansion of the U.S. aging population (cardiovascular disease is far more common in older adults than in younger people) and rising numbers of people with conditions that put them at ...

A Latina-owned yoga studio in East Harlem, New York, prioritizes community health and wellness by offering bilingual classes in Spanish and English. After nearly a decade of teaching yoga, Jazmin ...

But no matter the guidelines that states issue, hospitals around the U.S. say patients won’t be turned away for care because of their immigration status. “None of this changes the care patients ...

New research in the February 2022 issue of JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network confirms that mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 are just as safe for people with cancer as they are for ...

Today [December 2], in commemoration of World AIDS Day, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced a record ...

Brain plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease show up early in people who scored higher in neuroticism and lower in conscientiousness.

Although alcohol use increases the risk of developing breast cancer, a new Kaiser Permanente study found that, in general, consuming alcohol within six months of a breast cancer diagnosis was not ...

Only one quarter of patients living with sickle cell disease are prescribed disease modifying therapies, particularly newer ones.