August 22, 2024
February 20, 2008. A new report on the health status of one of the nation’s heaviest concentrations of Latinos found a striking level of adult obesity – higher than in the rest of the nation – and therefore a greater disease risk, particularly for diabetes but also for heart disease and some cancers. The study, […]
August 22, 2024
Nurse Practitioner Maria Falkenberg, MSN, RNC, right, oversees activities of patient navigator Sandra Veronica Covarrubias. May 30, 2008. Latinas face numerous barriers after they receive an abnormal or suspicious breast cancer screening result. Left to negotiate health system obstacles and confusing choices and decisions, they often delay or even discontinue the care they need out […]
August 22, 2024
July 31 – August 1, 2008. By all accounts, the first-ever national gathering of researchers and community members focused specifically on cancer in Latinos served as a ground-breaking event. Billed as the inaugural National Latino Cancer Summit, the cutting-edge conference – Science Meets Service, Moving Forward Together – drew 325 registrants from across the United […]
August 22, 2024
December 11, 2008. Set for launch in early 2009, a national Redes En Acción public awareness campaign will encourage Latinos to learn more about how they can protect themselves from cancer. Six new PSAs (public service announcements) – produced by Redes En Acción in both Spanish and English – will be disseminated to television stations […]
August 22, 2024
July 30, 2008. Redes En Acción celebrated its eighth year of success in promoting Latino cancer research, training and awareness with the first National Steering Committee (NSC) meeting ever conducted outside the initiative’s San Antonio National Network Center. The 8th Annual NSC Meeting, which was moved to San Francisco so that its location and timing […]
August 22, 2024
February 25, 2009. Set for launch in early 2009, a national Redes En Acción public awareness campaign will encourage Latinos to learn more about how they can protect themselves from cancer. Research examining the Redes En Acción nationwide network and its effectiveness is placing the initiative at the forefront of organizational network analysis and evaluation […]
August 22, 2024
May 29, 2009. Redes En Acción is spearheading a new National Cancer Institute-supported effort to boost enrollment of Latino children in leukemia clinical trials. Based in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, the project will seek to increase recruitment of patients from the heavily Hispanic United States-Mexico border region into pediatric hematology / oncology […]
August 22, 2024
August 17, 2009. The nation’s 7th largest city has launched a pioneering campaign to become “smoke-free,” and Redes En Acción researchers are playing a leading role in the effort. The new San Antonio Tobacco Prevention & Control Coalition (TPCC) (www.tobaccofreeSA.org) is a multi-organization partnership working to create and promote a “smoke-free” city with a tobacco […]
August 22, 2024
November 15, 2003. Amelie G. Ramirez, DrPH, Principal Investigator of Redes En Acción, was selected to receive the American Cancer Society’s 2003 Humanitarian Award. The presentation was made November 15, 2003, in Atlanta, Georgia. The American Cancer Society (ACS) annually presents the Humanitarian Award to individuals who have made outstanding improvements in human welfare and […]
August 22, 2024
November 11, 2003 Federal health agencies should identify priorities for genetic research among Hispanic/Latino populations, attract and develop more Latino genetic researchers and develop more Latino genetic researchers and others to work with Hispanic populations, and promote genetic research collaboration among Latino community members and scientists. That conclusion from the Hispanic/Latino Genetics Community Consultation Network […]