Six of the ten women crowned Miss Universe in the last decade were from Latin American countries. But are Latinas really more beautiful? Or do they spend more time and money hoping to be?

Several studies indicate that Latina women are spending more energy and money on their physical appearance, for all the good and bad that entails.

The Los Angles Times published an editorial about the "Latino Paradox." That is, why Latinos in the U.S. appear to be healthier in many categories than the U.S. population overall when their economic status suggests that their health would be poorer.

Bucking the popular notion that all Asian Americans are uniformly healthy, a new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Asian and Pacific Islander Health Forum shows great disparities of health coverage and health care between Asian and Pacific Islander subgroups. For example, the analysis finds that Korean Ame

The Los Angeles Daily Breeze newspaper reports that new survey of California's burgeoning Latino population shows that access to health care, preventive medicine and education is very low.