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Big Bend National Park in southwestern Texas. Big Bend Regional Medical Center serves a swath of 12,000 square miles of rural West Texas that extends southwest to the Mexican border and includes Big Bend National Park. But a nursing shortage is forcing the hospital in Alpine, Texas, to close its obstetrics unit for days at a time.

12,000 square miles without obstetrics? It’s a possibility in West Texas

August 4, 2021 at 11:32 a.m.

The message from Big Bend Regional Medical Center was stark: The only hospital in a sparsely populated region of far West Texas notified local physicians last month that because of...

En esta imagen de julio, Lynda Tegan, enfermera de UCI, ausculta a José Mariscal, de 66 años e infectado con COVID-19, y quien ha estado en esa unidad por cuatro días en el Centro Médico Regional Arrowhead, en Colton, California. Esta UCI tiene sólo dos camas más disponibles para pacientes de COVID,pero tiene la capacidad de ampliar a más camas si es necesario.

El rebrote del virus es ‘paralizante’ para los enfermeros

December 1, 2020 at 10:06 a.m.

Para Christina Nester, la calma por la pandemia en Massachusetts duró unos tres meses durante el verano hasta principios del otoño. A finales de junio, el St. Vincent Hospital había...

Everett Reynolds, a Waukegan artist, paints a mural July 12, 2018, on the Zuniga Automotive Service and Towing building on Belvidere Road. The mural aims to inspire kids "to dream big" and pays tribute to Waukegan native Ray Bradbury.

As U.S. suicides rates rise, Latinos show relative immunity

December 12, 2018 at 9:25 a.m.

The young man held the medication in his hand and considered using it to end his life. But then he "put it down and said, 'No. I need help,'" before...

School lunch: Twinkies, Coke from vending machine

August 21, 2021 at 4:02 a.m.

Ft. Worth pediatrician John Menchaca worries. He worries that meal deals and supersize sodas are stretching his young patients' waistlines, setting them up for heart disease and diabetes decades earlier...

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