Topic: Luis Padilla

A mysterious disease that presents with a white fungal growth around the nose has been killing bats in the Northeastern United States. The National Zoo's Conservation Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia, received a grant to create the first ever captive ...

Maternal diet influences sheep offspring gender

The article reports on a new research of ewes. i . The surgery was performed last year when a veterinary team, with the help of human urologist Dr Sherman Silber, operated on a male Przewalksi's horse named Minnesota. Przewalksi's horses are ...

Hispanics' lack of medical home goes beyond access, insurance

Luis Padilla, MD, sees Hispanic patients who visit only when they feel sick or injured. Jose Cruz, a 28-year-old Hispanic patient, fits both profiles. In August he visited the Upper Cardozo Health Center in Washington, D.C., a clinic where Dr. Padilla ...

Centers offer ways to bridge language, cultural differences

The Upper Cardozo Health Center, located in an economically and ethnically diverse section of Washington, D.C., has enrolled more than 17,000 low-income individuals, and most are non-English speakers. Luis Padilla, MD, the medical director of the Upper Cardozo center, which ...