Health & Wellness

This year's Operation Border Health Preparedness event will feature free medical services for the public including dental and vision care.

EDINBURG — Twelve Rio Grande Valley College nursing students signed letters of intent and donned white coats at a ceremony July 10, marking the beginning of the Registered Nurse Apprenticeship Program. The initiative, which is aimed addressing the ongoing nursing shortage, is a joint project of Rio Grande Valley College and DHR Health.

HARLINGEN — Everyone knows it, and now they know it again.

Anyone with gallstones can tell you that it's an excruciating pain which sometimes only surgery to remove the gallbladder will bring relief. But what if you're already suffering from another condition that prevents you from having surgery?

Efforts to bolster health care in the Starr County area just got a $700,000-plus boost thanks to a federal grant earmarked to develop the region’s first medicine rural residency training program.

HARLINGEN — A flash and a memory.

Chicanos Por La Causa will be hosting a Health and Resource Fair for Veteran Families where attendees can receive a variety of free services.

Harlingen Medical Center has launched its first graduate medical education program in hopes of bringing more doctors to the Rio Grande Valley.

As the state doubles down on its plans to award Medicaid and Medicare contracts to a for-profit insurance provider in Texas, so too are legislators and local insurers in their efforts to stymie that progress and advocate for a plan they feel has better served low-income families in the Rio Grande Valley.

One's trajectory in life can often be changed by one simple moment. A moment that is sometimes overlooked as it's happening but ends up being the decision that changes everything.