SaludToday Researcher On Paula Zahn’s TV Show On Women’s Health
Feb 9th
Deborah Parra-Medina
Dr. Deborah Parra-Medina, a researcher at SaludToday and the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, spoke about Latina child and youth obesity in a new TV special featuring former CNN anchor Paula Zahn.
The four-part special, “Health Secrets: What Every Woman Should Know,” aired on WTTW-TV (Chicago), addresses women’s health needs at all stages of life.
Dr. Parra-Medina was featured Jan. 21, 2010, in a segment examining the complex issues facing young women.
See the segment here by clicking on the “Overweight Teens” title under the main video. Read more about Dr. Parra-Medina here.
Latino Rises from Slums to Prominent Cancer Research Career
Feb 3rd
The story of SaludToday researcher Dr. Dan Hughes, assistant professor at the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, was featured 
in the CRCHD Cancer Disparities E-Bulletin:
Daniel C. Hughes, Ph.D. has never forgotten his beginnings. Much of his work is dedicated to studying cancer health disparities as a researcher and assistant professor at the Institute for Health Promotion Research Group at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio.
He grew up in the slums of Mexico City, the 4th youngest of five siblings which to a single mother. “We never knew how poor we really were,” Hughes said. His mother received no child support, no welfare checks, and the family had no refrigerator, no television set, not even a radio.
Read more here about how Dr. Hughes’ beginnings in Mexico City gave him a burning desire to go to school and succeed, taking what he gleaned from his own struggles to help the poor obtain better cancer treatment.