Category Archives: Health

Finding Hope in Support Groups

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Guest Writer

Part 3 – Emily’s Story: Finding Hope in Support Groups By Emily Wu Truong In honor of July as National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Guest Blogger Emily Wu Truong, who received a fellowship from the Entertainment Industries Council’s Mental Health … Continue reading →

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Seeking Help in an Imperfect Mental Health System

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Guest Writer

Part 2 – Emily’s Story: Seeking Help in an Imperfect Mental Health System By Emily Wu Truong In honor of July as National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Guest Blogger Emily Wu Truong, who received a fellowship from the Entertainment Industries … Continue reading →

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July: National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Guest Writer

Part 1 – Emily’s Story: Living with Perfectionism & Depression By Emily Wu Truong In honor of July as National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Guest Blogger Emily Wu Truong, who received a fellowship from the Entertainment Industries Council’s Mental Health … Continue reading →

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Asian American Commercial Watch: Kelly Hu for Viagra

Posted on June 10, 2015 by John

So I should have blogged about this Viagra commercial when it first came out this past April, but there wasn’t a higher quality version or official versions of the commercial on their website. Now I see this ad running more … Continue reading →

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Asian American Medical Hazard: Food Allergies

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Jeff

My father developed an allergy to shrimp, one of his favorite foods.  When he ate shrimp anyway, my mother warned him in Tagalog that he would get itchy.  “Then I’ll scratch,” was his reply.  While I laugh when I think … Continue reading →

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NYTimes Travel video: 36 hours in Koreatown, Los Angeles

Posted on March 2, 2015 by John

The New York Times does a nice 6 minute video overview of Koreatown in Los Angeles, even highlighting the Wi Spa that Conan O’Brien and Steve Yeun recently visited. BY Fritzie Andrade, Max Cantor, Jessey Dearing, Louie Alfaro and Will … Continue reading →

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Steven Yeun & Conan visit a Korean spa in Koreatown

Posted on February 16, 2015 by John

I first saw this Conan O’Brien video posted by a friend on Facebook and immediately re-shared it, and saw a few other friends quickly re-share it. Conan and actor Steve Yeun for some reason decide to go to a Korean … Continue reading →

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Nina Pham Declared Ebola Free

Posted on October 24, 2014 by 8AsiansNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAnH45KE-ug Vietnamese American nurse Nina Pham declared free of ebola. The Texan will be returning home to friends and family to continue to heal and recover.

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Vietnamese American Nina Pham is 2nd U.S. Ebola Patient

Posted on October 14, 2014 by 8AsiansNews

The second Ebola patient is a 26-year old Texan and Vietnamese American named Nina Pham. She’s a nurse who treated the first ebola patient, and she is featured on CNN.

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Family Fights back after losing Two Sons to Pediatric Cardiomyopathy

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Jeff

Because I have two teenagers who are active in an extremely strenuous sport and one of them (Number Two Son) started complaining about chest pains, I started reading an article with a title about children dropping dead from exercise.  What … Continue reading →

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Alex Tung Needs a Bone Marrow Donor

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Jeff

This is the type of post that we would like to do less often, but until more Asians and Asian Americans are in bone marrow registries, will continue to do so. Alex Tung has Acute Myeloid Leukemia and needs a … Continue reading →

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YouTube: Anna Akana’s ‘How to put on your face’

Posted on July 28, 2014 by John

I saw this video posted earlier this month on Facebook by someone by budding self-described actress, director, writer Anna Akana and recently saw that The Huffington Post had picked it up. Although I’m a guy, I liked the message that … Continue reading →

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