Health

Most violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered individuals remains unreported, according to the PlanetOut Partners/Modalis Speak Out Community Survey, the first survey conducted for PlanetOut Partners, Inc. by Modalis Research Technologies, Inc.

AIDS Project Los Angeles' brand new national Spanish-language publication, Impacto!, is designed to bring critical treatment and health information to Spanish-speaking people living with HIV and AIDS. Impacto!

Representatives of the Governments of Mexico and California, together with The California Endowment, the state's largest health foundation, met in the State Capitol to announce strategies for addressing the critical health care needs of

Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., marketer of PROCRIT® (Epoetin alfa)1, a medication that treats anemia associated with certain conditions, is joining forces with the Interamerican College of Physicians and Surgeons (ICPS), the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA), and the International Associati

Initial results from a UCLA-led study has found that the mortality rate of Hispanics ages 65-74 years with diabetes is more than twice the rate of non-Hispanic Whites. The same study also reported that, at any age level, the Latino mortality rate remains twice as high as non-Hispanic Whites.

AARP has conducted a national survey to better understand the structure and dynamics of the contemporary "sandwiched" boomer family, and how members of the sandwich generation are coping with the pressures of caring for their parents and children.

Citing new data showing some 23 million workers worldwide now infected with HIV/AIDS, the Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Juan Somavia plans to formally launch a pioneering Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work* at the U.N General Assembly Special Sess