By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — A genetic tendency toward certain forms of higher blood pressure and cholesterol is linked to a potential…
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Sharita Knobloch is as personable as she is inspirational. When she’s not teaching at Liberty University,…
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — With several commencements taking place this weekend, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso celebrated its…
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — For several days now, visible smoke has been rising from behind the Juarez mountains and blowing east due to the wind…
Continue Reading By Meg Tirrell, CNN Most parents wouldn’t be thrilled with the idea of their kids getting hooked up to an IV bag filled with trillions of…
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(CNN) — When Barbara Brigham was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2020, the odds were not in her favor. Pancreatic cancer is one of the…
Continue Reading By Katia Hetter, CNN The national public health emergency around Covid-19 officially ends in the United States on Thursday, May 11, more than three…
Continue Reading By Katherine Dillinger, CNN A “peanut patch” showed promising results in a late-phase clinical trial in toddlers with peanut allergies,…
Continue Reading By Carma Hassan, CNN Advisers for the US Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday in support of making the birth-control pill…
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Baptist Clinic is celebrating 50 years in the community this week. The clinic is hosting a special open house on…
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Most women with average risk should start screening for breast cancer at age 40, and they should get screened every other year through age…
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke; Every three and a half minutes, an individual loses their life.…
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The Covid-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson is no longer available in the United States, according to the US Centers…
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Cohen and Amanda Sealy, CNN When Caitlyn Pace moved from the United States to Hong Kong three years ago to take a teaching job, she…
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul presented a free healthcare fair as part of “Older American’s Month”. Over…
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman and Betsy Klein, CNN In March, the White House reached out to about a dozen Covid-19 experts who are closely following the…
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As more migrants continue to cross the border into El Paso, ABC-7 is speaking to health officials about the risk of diseases…
Continue Reading By Katia Hetter, CNN The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced last week that a medication developed to treat diabetes, tirzepatide, also had a…
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An ailment that’s all too common among Borderland residents took a serious toll on one El Paso man in particular. ABC-7 is…
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Covid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in the United States in 2022, according to provisional data from the US…
Continue Reading By Nadia Kounang and Amanda Sealy, CNN A team of doctors in Boston successfully performed a novel fetal surgery to treat a rare brain condition known…
Continue Reading By Meg Tirrell, CNN An experimental Alzheimer’s medication slowed declines in patients’ ability to think clearly and perform daily tasks…
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 has been out on the streets of Segundo Barrio asking the migrants staying there about the conditions they have been…
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Cohen, Carma Hassan and Amanda Musa, CNN A Florida woman, unable to get an abortion in her state, carried to term a baby who had no…
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The US Preventive Services Task Force is proposing that all women at average risk of breast cancer start screening at age…
Continue Reading By Katherine Dillinger, CNN US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released an advisory Tuesday addressing the “epidemic of loneliness and…
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A health ailment that’s all too common among Borderland residents took a serious toll on one El Paso man in particular. This week, ABC-7 is sharing…
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman, CNN Disease detectives with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a cluster of rare and serious…
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Big Brothers Big Sister of El Paso is helping the community address youth mental health concerns, and help enhance mental…
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Cohen and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Later this spring, a little girl in California who essentially has no immune system will receive a…
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