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Surgeons are an integral part of the health care system, supplying critical and urgent care in nearly every field of medicine. But surgeons are already in short supply, with the gap between the number needed and the number working expected to get worse.

The number of unmarried women who gave birth in the United States declined to about 1.2 million in 2023, a decrease of roughly 15% over just more than a decade, according to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting this year’s first case of West Nile illness in a resident of Harris County. Health officials confirmed the resident was diagnosed with West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease.