Healthy Black kids die more often after surgery than White kids, study finds
Within 30 days from their surgeries, Black children had a greater risk of suffering complications and death than White children, and were nearly 3.5…
Continue ReadingWithin 30 days from their surgeries, Black children had a greater risk of suffering complications and death than White children, and were nearly 3.5…
Continue ReadingPlastic wrap. Plastic bags. These are some of the workarounds teens use to protect themselves from pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections,…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials on Sunday reported an additional 241 Covid-19 cases, bringing the statewide total…
Continue ReadingDaniel is still hobbled by the severe viral infection that struck him in March and left him coughing up blood. Three months ago, a 28-year-old…
Continue ReadingShirley Freeman has been seeing therapists on and off for about six years, but not a single one has been Black. Her inability to find a mental health…
Continue ReadingA month ago, Florida reported almost 4,000 new coronavirus cases, a record increase in its numbers. On Sunday, the state reported more than triple…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — Fueled by rapid spread of the coronavirus among those under 40, El Paso public health leaders reported a pandemic record…
Continue ReadingWhen Californian Lindsey Sutton was an infant, her blood was the color of cherry Pepto Bismol. Doctors quickly discovered it was highly saturated…
Continue Reading“Keep close to Nature’s heart … and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — On Saturday, in church that can hold up to 1,200 people, 40 people celebrated the sacrament of confirmation in front of three…
Continue ReadingAt least two Florida counties are under curfew Saturday to fight the spread of coronavirus, just hours after the governor said officials won’t…
Continue ReadingThe US Food and Drug Administration on Saturday announced it has issued an emergency use authorization that allows the laboratory Quest Diagnostics…
Continue ReadingEarlier this month, I — along with 38,000 or so other medical school graduates — officially began medical residency training here in the…
Continue ReadingLAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Southern New Mexico accounted for two of the state’s four new coronavirus deaths on Saturday, health officials said, as the…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — El Paso County topped 11,000 total coronavirus cases on Saturday with the addition of 289 new infections, health officials said.…
Continue ReadingCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Eighty-five infants under age 1 have tested positive for coronavirus in one Texas county. And local officials are…
Continue ReadingIs your blood type A, B, a combination of the two or something else? You don’t know, you say? Many people don’t know their blood type. In…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — Hospitalizations in El Paso due to coronavirus may have decreased Friday from 271 to 268, however the number of patients in the ICU…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — A mobile morgue is now in El Paso, and a second one is on its way due to the high rate of coronavirus deaths here, ABC-7 has…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — The state of Texas set a new daily record for virus deaths, with 174 on Friday, and reported more than 10,000 confirmed new cases…
Continue ReadingLAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The city of Las Cruces has invested tens of thousands of dollars in plexiglass barriers to protect bus drivers during the…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — Facing growing backlash from teachers, parents and health officials, Texas education officials Friday relaxed a previous order that…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — With coronavirus numbers continuing to climb in the Borderland, ABC-7 asked the challengers vying for El Paso Mayor Dee Margo’s…
Continue ReadingThe nation’s top infectious disease expert on Friday urged governors and mayors to “be as forceful as possible” to get people to…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials on Friday reported 319 new coronavirus cases, bringing the statewide total to 16,456 since the…
Continue ReadingHOUSTON, Texas — Teams of military medics were deployed in Texas and California to help hospitals deluged by coronavirus patients, as Miami area…
Continue ReadingNORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas — A 24-year-old Texas woman who spent nearly three months in a hospital fighting Covid-19 says she wishes she had…
Continue ReadingThe planned slaughter of almost 100,000 mink after a coronavirus outbreak on a Spanish farm has renewed questions around Covid-19 and the…
Continue ReadingEach day new information comes out about the deadly novel coronavirus and Covid-19, the disease it causes, making it difficult to keep up with all…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported four coronavirus-related deaths and 205 new cases Friday morning. The death…
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