Category: Featured News, Health, Latinas to Watch
LeBron, Barnhart, Lupien ‘Zoom’ in on Residents’ Concerns
Patti Singer pattisinger@minorityreporter.net A Monroe County legislator, a Rochester City Council member and a Rochester Board of...
Health Department to Issue Regular Updates on COVID-19
Patti Singer pattisinger@minorityreporter.net Monroe County has 14 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. March 17, according to the...
Ibero is Among Community Agencies Helping During COVID-19 Crisis
Patti Singer pattisinger@miniorityreporter.net Even before the first confirmed local case of COVID-19, officials in Rochester and Monroe...
URMC Seeks to Diversify Study of Dementia Caregivers
Carol Elizabeth Owens Older African Americans and Latinos are more likely than Whites to get a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease,...
Team Approach to Opioid Epidemic Resulted in 9 Convictions in OD Deaths
Patti Singer pattisinger@minorityreporter.net Opioid deaths and overdoses show little sign of abating. As a result, neither do the...
How Would You Change Medicaid to Save Money, Keep Services?
The public is invited to comment on proposed changes to the state’s Medicaid program under the budget for the 2021 fiscal year. The New...
The Children’s Agenda Sponsors Advocacy Trip to Albany
The Children’s Agenda is organizing an Early Childhood Advocacy Day trip to Albany for parents and providers to urge legislators for more...
Report: Poverty is a Real Killer
Patti Singer pattisinger@minorityreporter.net Too much month at the end of money is more than a financial strain. The stress saps health,...
Team MannPower walks to find a cure for Alzheimer’s
By Olga Monacell On a recent summer morning, I met with Norma Holland Mann at the iSquare coffee shop in Irondequoit. We talked about her...
Estella Velez Upegui: Explaining Alzheimer’s in Words they Know
[Editor’s note: The September, 2019 print edition of La Voz features articles and information about Alzheimer’s disease. This...
