Relay for Life Yuma hosts 27th Annual Relay for Life
The Relay for Life of Yuma County is hosting the 27th Annual Relay for Life event Saturday. The event is to honor cancer survivors and honor those…
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Arizona and California releases weekly COVID updates
Arizona and California, as well as Yuma and Imperial Counties, have released their weekly COVID updates for their respective states and…
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AZNA accepting nominations for local nurses awards
The Arizona Nurse Association (AZNA) will recognize local healthcare providers for their work during the…
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Chicanos Por La Causa hosts 2nd Annual Heart Walk
This is in collaboration with the American Heart Association as they couldn’t hold any heart walks in Phoenix due to the COVID-19…
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First clinic in Holtville now open
The first clinic in Holtville is now open to everyone in Imperial…
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FDA advisers to approve vaccine for elderly people
(CNN/KYMA, KECY) – Vaccines for RSV could be available by the next flu season. Vaccine advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted to…
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Arizona and California releases weekly COVID numbers
While Arizona’s new COVID update saw a decrease from last week, California saw an increase in their COVID…
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U.S. to lift COVID testing requirements for travelers from China
According to a person familiar with the plan, on Friday, the Biden administration is planning to end a requirement that travelers coming from china…
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Sunset Health offers free COVID-19 vaccines and boosters in Wellton
Sunset Health offers free COVID-19 vaccines and boosters for residents six months and…
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Governor Newsom condemns Walgreens over abortion pill
California is officially “done” with Walgreens. More specifically, done with doing business with…
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Tom Sizemore, ‘Saving Private Ryan’ actor, dies at 61
The actor had suffered a brain aneurysm on Feb. 18 at his home in Los Angeles. He died in his sleep Friday at a hospital in Burbank, California,…
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Maricopa County rejects city plan restore community’s water
Maricopa County has flatly rejected a proposal from Scottsdale to temporarily restore water to an unincorporated community near the posh Phoenix…
Continue Reading Jury acquits former Navajo official in COVID testing case
A Navajo Nation jury on Friday acquitted the tribe’s former top financial officer of charges that she misrepresented information about a company…
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FDA authorizes at-home Covid-19/Flu test
(CNN/KYMA, KECY) – If you test negative for Covid-19 but are still feeling sick, how do you know if you have the flu? It may extremely difficult,…
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Insulin price cut brings relief to local diabetics
Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced a series of price cuts that would lower the price of the most commonly used forms of its…
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Planned Parenthood launches vasectomy services in Arizona
Planned Parenthood Arizona is launching vasectomy services at the Southern Arizona Regional Health Center in Tucson after a spike in requests from…
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Arizona and California, in addition to Yuma and Imperial Counties, have released their weekly COVID…
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1 in 5 kids shows signs of disordered eating
(CNN/KYMA, KECY) – More than one in five kids and adolescents around the world show signs of disordered eating. That’s according to a new…
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Yuma experiencing nurse shortage
Arizona is one of several states facing a nursing shortage and Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) is working to solve that problem…
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ECRMC and UC San Diego Health announce partnership to improve local health
El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC) and UC San Diego Health announced a partnership in the works to improve Imperial County…
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