Pregnancy resources for Cochise women limited

Many reproductive health resources in Cochise County focus on preventing teen pregnancies and promoting family planning, leaving abortion and sex education limited. Limitations include a slant toward abstinence-only, Christian-based education in some schools and organizations, and a bias against homosexuality in HIV education. A lack of free abortion referral services and “women’s right-to-know” counseling sessions earned Arizona a…

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Telemedicine helps sustain rural health care

Access to health care in rural and underserved communities could be improved as telemedicine progresses and advances. At the same time, officials say, using video technology to reach patients could help rural hospitals in Arizona and around the world stay afloat as they combat financial woes and doctor shortages. “There has been 58 rural hospitals that closed in this country…

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Ghost hunt at Bisbee’s Copper Queen Hotel

  “Who you gonna call?” my friends and I sang as we pulled up to the Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee. “Ghostbusters!” The oldest continually run hotel in the country has never shut her doors and turned 114 on President’s Day. That makes the Copper Queen a hub for ghost-seekers — it’s rumored that 16 ghosts have been seen…

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Art squabble leaves some in Bisbee squeamish

  It was once thought to be impossible that anything could push the limits of the small hippy town of Bisbee. But Phoenix artist Eric Kasper found what makes Bisbee squeamish. The unlikely pair of pornography and horse genitalia have sent both Kasper and Bisbee on quite the ride. Kasper’s paintings initially premiered in the new…

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