Margarita Ruiz, 33, and two of her sons, Alex, 2, and Miguel,14. Ruiz says she relies on office staff to interpret during visits to her children’s doctor. She doesn’t speak English and her kids’ ...

(Reuters Health) - Latino patients with limited English skills may be less likely to take prescribed diabetes medications than other diabetics in the U.S. even when they see Spanish-speaking doctors, ...

Imagine that you woke up with weakness in your right arm and difficulty speaking. You’re a Spanish speaker and you go to the emergency room, where the doctor attending to you took Spanish in high ...

Long before he began studying for a career in health care, Marlon Munoz performed one of the most sensitive roles in the field: delivering diagnoses to patients. As an informal interpreter between ...

This article originally appeared in Kaiser Health News. When Margarita Ruiz takes her children to the doctor’s office, she has no choice but to trust that nurses and front desk staff are translating ...

A baby wasn’t in the plans when Beatriz Navarro immigrated to the U.S. In January, Navarro arrived in Colorado from Mexico “to work and to learn English.” She felt something move in her abdomen soon ...

Latino patients with limited English skills may be less likely to take prescribed diabetes medications than other diabetics in the U.S. even when they see Spanish-speaking doctors, a recent study ...