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Osteoporosis: A Growing Danger for Hispanic Women

According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), the cost of treating bone fractures caused by osteoporosis (a disease that debilitates your bones) will reach $2 billion dollars by 2025. This is a major in...

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Arthritis and Hispanics

Even though Hispanics are 46% less likely to report having arthritis than non-Hispanic whites, a recent study indicates that the toll of this disease is far more devastating among Hi...

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Benefiting from a Bilingual Brain

Living in the United States warps our minds—but not in the way you might think. Being able to speak both English and Spanish fundamentally changes our brains and perhaps, as some st...

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Hispanics and Alzheimer

The Alzheimer’s Association estimates that Hispanics will become the ethnic group in the U.S. with the highest risk of developing for developing the disease by 2050. Although currently less than 200,000 Hispanics have Al...