New Mexico lawmakers advance assisted suicide bill
SANTA FE, New Mexico — A bill that would legalize medically assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in New Mexico passed its first hurdle…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — A bill that would legalize medically assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in New Mexico passed its first hurdle…
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas — A 9-year-old boy died of complications of Covid-19 this past week at Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, his family told ABC…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — Texas is scheduled to get more than 520,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine this week, more than state officials said they…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico on Sunday reported 530 new known Covid-19 cases and 18 deaths. The latest numbers…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — The race and ethnicity of almost 90% of the people inoculated in El Paso County is unknown to the Texas Department of State Health…
Continue ReadingCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico has reached 158,074 confirmed deaths from Covid-19 to end January, which now makes it the country with the world’s…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — After months of health mandates limiting El Pasoans from congregating, now live music is playing in some restaurants. Koteiba…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The European Union says vaccine maker AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses to the 27-nation bloc during the…
Continue ReadingDanielle Seal likens going for a walk during the pandemic to an extreme sport. “When I go [and walk] the dog I have to ask people to stay two…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — El Paso health officials reported three new coronavirus deaths on Sunday morning and 492 added cases. The latest fatality victims…
Continue ReadingCongress was convulsed by controversy over the incendiary behavior of a freshman Republican from Georgia. Wall Street was roiled by insurgent…
Continue ReadingCovid-19 hospitalizations in the US dropped below 100,000 for the first time in nearly two months, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project.…
Continue ReadingNormally reserved and conservatively dressed, my friend was outfitted in a strange mishmash of colorful wigs and Hawaiian shirts and a sequined gown.…
Continue ReadingUPDATE: A UMC spokesman tells ABC-7 the hospital is mindful that some elderly El Pasoans don’t have internet access to be able to sign up for an…
Continue ReadingMaryland on Saturday became the second state to report a case of a coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa — a strain that health…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico on Saturday reported 752 additional known Covid-19 cases and 17 deaths, increasing the state’s…
Continue ReadingAt least four new variants of the coronavirus are keeping scientists awake at night. One, first identified in southeast England, has now shown up in…
Continue ReadingIf you’re pregnant during the pandemic, major medical groups in the United States have a clear message for you — please consider being…
Continue ReadingATLANTA, Georgia — As health experts warn that highly contagious coronavirus variants could soon worsen the spread in the U.S., the country is…
Continue ReadingIt was one year ago today the World Health Organization declared that the novel coronavirus was a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — El Paso health officials reported eight new coronavirus deaths, including a man in his 30s, on Saturday morning and 493 added…
Continue ReadingAs Covid-19 variants are increasingly found in the United States, experts say Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine candidate would help in the…
Continue ReadingI remember the talk among parents on my son’s last day of in-person school since the pandemic began. Back in March, some of them didn’t…
Continue ReadingAntibodies that protect against the coronavirus often get transferred from mother to infant during pregnancy — a finding that indicates a…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — State health officials reported 1,085 new positive daily tests for the coronavirus on Friday, with 22 related deaths. That…
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration spent $200 million sending thousands of ventilators around the world, starting weeks after President Donald Trump touted…
Continue ReadingJohnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 single-shot vaccine was shown to be 66% effective in preventing moderate and severe disease in a global Phase…
Continue ReadingUPDATE #2: Officials with Fort Bliss and the William Beaumont Army Medical Center said at a briefing late Friday afternoon that eleven hospitalized…
Continue ReadingIf you’ve been trying to get yourself, an elderly relative or someone you care for vaccinated for Covid-19, CNN Opinion wants to know what your…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — One in 33 babies born in the United States this year will have some kind of birth defect. January is National Birth Defects…
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