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Remembering how it all started: Acquired Immunity Disease Syndrome (AIDS) Walk Los Angeles
By Yolanda G. Mationg (Editor’s Note: AIDS Walk LA culminated on October 23 with more than $82 million raised since 1985) A little more than three decades ago, the very first AIDS Walk Los Angeles took place in 1985. Organizers of that initial Walk were in great hopes to raise approximately $100,000. Thankfully, with more […]
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How I’m beating pulmonary hypertension
By Gabriela Ibanez Nguyenphuoc In beginning of 2012, I thought it was just a flu. I couldn’t walk far and my heart raced. My youngest Liam was only a few months old and I thought it was exhaustion for taking care of a newborn. After a few visits to the doctor they finally decided to […]
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FilAm parents urged to participate in state-funded research
Dr. Joyce R. Javier, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at USC Keck School of Medicine, and Anna Marie B. Cruz, Small Business Specialist at Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA) visited Consul General Leo Herrera-Lim at his office on October 16. Consul General Herrera-Lim, Javier and Cruz […]
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How I enjoy my lunch in a bottle!
By Cecile Caguingin Ochoa Swapping comfort Filipino food, like ‘tapsilog,’ ‘kaldereta’ and ‘kare-kare’ for, ahem, healthful food bites or what favorite family friend, Kimmie Galanto, refers to as “clean food” was not easy. But given an appetizing choice of a nouveau menu via jars, I became a convert. And for at least two weeks now, […]
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More than 1,500 residents avail of St. Vincent’s free health care services
Special to TheFILAMLA World War II Veteran Pedro Morante of Dagupan has always looked forward each year to the mobile units coming to his Los Angeles neighborhood where he gets free flu shot, glaucoma and cholesterol screenings; hearing test among other health tests. At 83, the Eastern Central Luzon former guerrilla has had enough lines […]
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Local communities including undocumented immigrants encouraged to avail of free multi-health screenings
By Dante D. Ochoa The consulates general of Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Korea, Thailand and the Philippines joined St. Vincent Medical Center in a press conference Friday September 18, to help drum up public interest on the upcoming Free Multicultural Health Fair to be held on September 27 at 2222 […]
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Sept. 27th multicultural health fair to focus on the uninsured
Special to TheFilAmLA St. Vincent Medical Center invites the community to a Free 2014 Multicultural Health Fair to be held on September 27, 2014 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 2222 Ocean View Avenue, Los Angeles (near Third and Alvarado streets). Spearheaded by the Multi-cultural Health Awareness and Prevention (MHAP) Center at St. Vincent’s, […]
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Fear of deportation stopping immigrants from seeking health coverage, but senator wants to change that
By Lawrence C. Ochoa California State Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) met September 5 with ethnic media reporters at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center to push for his “Health for All” legislation to benefit undocumented immigrants with no health coverage. The bill died in committee deliberations, but Lara said he plans to reintroduce it […]
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How to build a successful life in America: insights from a community health educator
By Cecile Caguingin-Ochoa The list of his achievements as the first Filipino American director of a thriving Multicultural Health Awareness and Prevention (MHAP) Center at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles goes beyond five pages. “The most important of these are those that link me with bringing services to the marginalized sector of the […]