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		<title>Mom-in-chief’s obesity agenda will especially touch Blacks and Latinos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We should cheer first lady Michelle Obama for taking on childhood obesity as a personal crusade. The attention she is paying to it should help all our kids, and Black and Latino kids will likely be especially touched by her influence.  The reality is stark. Nationally, 32 percent of children and adolescents are obese or overweight. That’s one in every three.  The prevalence of obesity among children 6-11 has more than doubled in the last 20 years to 20 percent.  The obesity rate among adolescents 12-19 has more than tripled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Republican Joseph Cao Voted &#8216;Aye&#8217; on Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressman Joseph Cao of Louisiana was the lone Republican to vote for Saturday's health care reform legislation, which passed by a slim margin. Cao, the first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress, comes from a liberal district he won after his Democrat opponent succumbed to scandal. Why did Cao vote "aye" on the legislation, when every other Republican rejected it? Speculation has focused on the specifics of his district (he is up for re-election next year), his relationship with the White House, and the intricacies of Vietnamese-American politics.]]></description>
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		<title>Hill: House Passes Landmark Health Care Reform Bill That Leaves Intact Provisions  Increasing Immigrants&#8217; Access to Health Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House of Representatives has passed a landmark health care reform bill that would require every person in the United States to purchase health insurance, establish a new entitlement to federal health care affordability subsidies for lower income individuals and families, and enact significant new consumer reforms to protect the rights and benefits of the insured.  The House passed the measure late in the evening on Saturday, November 7, 2009, by a vote of 220-215.]]></description>
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		<title>OBAMA OFFICIALLY ENDORSES HOUSE BILL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, a bill that represents a critical milestone in the effort to reform our health care system.  H.R. 3962 will provide needed insurance reforms for Americans with insurance, expand coverage for those who do not have insurance, lower costs for families and businesses, and begin to reduce the Nation’s deficit.  It meets the President’s criteria for health insurance reform:  it assures that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care that is there when they need it and does so without adding a dime to the deficit.]]></description>
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		<title>Search for clues in Fort Hood massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investigators looking into a massacre at the nation's largest military base pieced through the gruesome scene Friday morning and raided the home of the alleged gunman, searching for answers.  Military officials at Fort Hood also faced another, equally difficult task: notifying the families of the 13 people killed Thursday inside a military processing center.  "Today on Fort Hood, we will observe a day of mourning, remembering in our thoughts and prayers the victims of this incident," said Col. John Rossi, deputy commanding general at the post.]]></description>
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		<title>An uphill battle to combat Latino childhood obesity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When she was about 8, Frida Sepulveda developed dark folds of skin around her neck. It's a well-known warning sign of type 2 diabetes.  Frida's mother, Blanca Sepulveda, who has watched other family members struggle with diabetes and obesity, was "devastated" to see her daughter experience similar health problems.  Now at age 11, Frida is about 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs around 180 pounds, her mother said. Despite a high body weight for her age and height, Frida does not seem to have additional symptoms of diabetes]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much Silence About Swine Flu’ Impact on Blacks, Latinos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The missing conversation amid all the ado about the deadly effects of the swine flu is the devastating impact it is having on Latino and African-American populations, says Juan Gonzalez of The New York Daily News.  Despite numerous briefings about the notorious H1N1 virus, city and federal health officials have been “virtually silent about” the way the pandemic is ripping through minority communities, says Gonzalez, a columnist and regular commentator on the radio program “Democracy Now."  In an analysis last month of the first swine flu-related deaths among U.S. children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that one in three were among Latinos.]]></description>
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		<title>Civil-Rights Groups Launch Health-Care Ad Blitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A coalition of major African-American and Latino groups announced Monday that it is stepping into the health-care debate with a six-figure ad blitz aimed at promoting reform.  A half-dozen groups -- the NAACP National Voter Fund, the National Council of La Raza, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the Campaign for Community Change, the United States Student Association and PowerPAC.org -- are banding together to run television and print ads in four states with large minority populations: Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana and Arkansas. (Two of those four states have senators on the Finance Committee.) A spokesman for the group said the total ad buy would cost between $250,000 and $500,000.]]></description>
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		<title>Hispanic/Latino Community Has Unique Cancer Profile</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hispanics and Latinos have a unique cancer profile that means they are less likely to get the four most common cancers, but are more likely to develop cancers related to infection, according to a report published Sept. 15 by the American Cancer Society.  The study authors note that there will be as estimated 98,900 newly diagnosed cancer cases among Hispanics and Latinos in 2009, and that an estimated 18,800 will die from cancer, with lung and colorectal cancer accounting for the most deaths among men, and breast and lung cancer the most common among women.]]></description>
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		<title>Latino HIV/AIDS Crisis Demands Attention - Health Care Professionals from Across&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To educate healthcare professionals on how to improve the Latino community's access to HIV/AIDS treatment and care, Minority Health Care Communications (MHCC) will hold the National Conference on Latinos and AIDS, September 14-15th, 2009, at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York.  It is the first time for the conference in New York, and the location is significant, says conference Director K. Mary Hess. "We need a comprehensive campaign that allows for tailoring to the many cultures within the Latino Community. New York is the perfect example of a bellwether city, where trends and needs often emerge ahead of the curve for the rest of the country." ]]></description>
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