Hispanic health

In a livestreamed conversation, Side Effects Public Media discussed how leaders in a small Indiana town worked to break language barriers and provide COVID-19 vaccines to the town’s immigrant population, including the growing number of Indigenous Mayan people from Guatemala.

Some small towns in the Midwest are growing due to an influx of immigrants, which includes some who speak rare languages. Hospitals and community leaders have had to adapt to make COVID vaccines accessible to those communities.

On a Friday evening in late June, Liliana Quintero received a call from one of the Spanish interpreters working at a COVID-19 testing site in Goshen,…

Men are more likely than women to put off going to the doctor. Hispanic men can face complications of culture, language and cost that make that even more likely.

When Margarita Ruiz takes her children to the doctor’s office, she has no choice but to trust that nurses and front desk staff are translating medical…

Immigrants saw the steepest gains in health insurance coverage in 2014, the first year for enrollment on the Affordable Care Act's exchanges and…

If you ate cereal this morning, chances are you got the recommended daily allowance of folic acid.Most U.S. cereals have 100 percent of the daily value,…

Though 39 percent of the state's population is Latino, only 8 percent of its nurses are. Health officials are looking to reduce health disparities by increasing diversity among health professionals.