Ambulance calls for drug overdoses have reached a three-year high in Tarrant County. On Wednesday, MedStar...
Deadline Looms for Texas Health Resources Insurance Deal
Healthcare insurance provider Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and the hospital system Texas Health...
By Elsa Feltl | Sep 22, 2022
Texas Ramping Up Efforts to Fight Fentanyl Crisis
(The Center Square) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has instructed state agency heads to “look for ways to enhance...
Kim Brown: Changing Brains, Changing Lives
Most 7-year-old children spend their weekends playing, whether outside, or, these days, on a tablet. Kim...
By Josh Carter | Sep 22, 2022
New UT Southwestern Medical Center Opens in Dallas
The new UT Southwestern Medical Center at RedBird in South Dallas opened on Saturday. Located at 3450 W Camp...
By Noah DeGarmo | Sep 21, 2022
Child Passenger Safety Week in Texas
During Child Passenger Safety Week, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has been raising awareness...
By Bella Farris | Sep 21, 2022
DFW is Fat, What Can We Do About It?
Everything is bigger in Texas, as the saying goes, but increasingly that mantra includes the people in the...
By Noah DeGarmo | Sep 21, 2022
Texas Man With Cancer Promotes Mental Health
A Texas man battling cancer is getting extra support from an Austin-based non-profit organization that...
‘Medical Terrorist’ Dallas Anesthesiologist to Remain in Federal Custody
A U.S. magistrate judge ordered Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz Jr. to remain in federal custody pending his trial after...
Texas Metro Named ‘Most Obese’ in the U.S.
Nearly half of adults in the United States are projected to be obese by 2030 with one in four likely to be...
By Eric Geist | Sep 18, 2022
Texas Obesity Continues Disturbing Upward Trend
Texas is showing a disturbing trend when it comes to the prevalence of obesity among its residents. Over the...
By Eric Geist | Sep 17, 2022
Dallas County COVID-19 Cases Decline 31.53%
The community "risk level" for COVID-19 in Dallas County is now "Low," according to the Centers for Disease...
By Pete Griffin | Sep 16, 2022
Starbucks Drinks Recalled, Some in Texas
PepsiCo Inc. voluntarily initiated a product recall of a retail Starbucks beverage it manufactures, fearing...
By Emma Vaske | Sep 15, 2022
CDC Warns of Respiratory Virus Outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an official health advisory last Friday prompted...
By Pete Griffin | Sep 14, 2022
USDA Issues Health Alert for Ground Beef
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a public health alert...
By Pete Griffin | Sep 13, 2022
Texas Judge: Government Cannot Mandate Christian Employers Cover HIV-Prevention Drugs
A federal judge in Texas ruled that a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandating that private...
Uptick in COVID Cases Follows Return to School
COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in Dallas County, but this time, the age group reporting the largest...
By Pete Griffin | Sep 12, 2022
‘Threat to Public Welfare,’ Troubled Anesthesiologist’s License Suspended
The Texas Medical Board has suspended the license of a local anesthesiologist, declaring him a "continuing...
Local Man Survives Heart Attack in Church
A church visitor was in the right place at the right time to save a life last week when a fellow attendee...
By Pete Griffin | Sep 8, 2022
GENECIS Clinic’s Transgender Controversies Continue
The Dallas Express recently reported that a Grapevine-Colleyville ISD (GCISD) parent, in a letter to...
By Eric Geist | Sep 8, 2022
Dallas Woman Seeking Live Kidney Donor
A Dallas woman who was diagnosed with lupus is urgently in need of a kidney from a living donor. Nono Osuji,...
By Mary Dada | Sep 7, 2022
