diabetes

Hass Avocado Board teamwork with American Diabetes Association takes top PR honors

The Hass Avocado Board (HAB) was honored to receive PRWeek's 2016 Multicultural Campaign of the Year award, the communications industry's highest accolade for programs aimed at multicultural audiences. After a…

Hispanics projected to constitute 20 percent of glaucoma patients by 2050

Today, nearly 3 million people ages 40 and older have glaucoma, according to the Prevent Blindness “Future of Vision: Forecasting the Prevalence and Costs of Vision Problems” report. As the…

Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers in Milwaukee receive 2015 BizTimes Health Care Hero Award for serving Hispanic population

Pamela Wilson, MD, medical director at Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers (SSCHC) in Milwaukee will receive a 2015 BizTimes Health Care Hero Award in the Physician category. The Health Care…

Kaiser Permanente study finds breastfeeding lowers risk of Type 2 diabetes following gestational diabetes pregnancy

  Women with gestational diabetes who consistently and continuously breastfeed from the time of giving birth are half as likely to develop type 2 diabetes within two years after delivery,…