Hidalgo County uses the case status definition provided by the Texas Department of State Health Service’s 2020 Epi Case Criteria Guide revised November 2020.
On Tuesday, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) announced a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for McAllen Independent School District (ISD).
South Texans who suffer major physical trauma — serious injuries such as from falls, motor vehicle collisions, stabbing wounds, and gunshot wounds — no longer have to be transferred away from the Rio Grande Valley and deep South Texas hospitals to San Antonio medical facilities.
Some years ago, I happened to catch most of an episode of a series called Year Million on the National Geographic Channel. I thought it was pretty interesting, but the content raised some difficult questions. I find both fascinating and disturbing the potential for nanobots to repair our broken bodies from the inside out, the pursuit of artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality, designer children, and the notion of extending our life expectancy (quixotic as it may be) hundreds of years or more; however, I cannot see how humans will ever achieve a perfect — or even near-perfect — existence.
McALLEN — When asked about sacrifice and what it takes to succeed in the nursing program at South Texas College, Robert Garcia acknowledges that the thing he misses most is being a father.
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