The CDC released updated guidelines on COVID-19 infections on Friday and has dropped its five-day quarantine guidance. The change comes as case numbers continue to decline nationwide. The agency...
New App Advertises ‘Mental Health Classes’
A new app created by an Austin therapist aims to revolutionize access to mental health care. One in five adults in the United States was affected by mental illness in 2020, according to the National...
Nonprofits Collaborate to Assist Local Monkeypox Victims
Dallas nonprofits are collaborating to set up a relief fund for individuals directly affected by the monkeypox virus, which continues to circulate within the city and elsewhere in the nation....
Hospitals Warn Parents About Counterfeit Car Seats
In honor of National Seat Check Saturday this past weekend, Cook Children's raised awareness of proper child car seat safety and the danger of counterfeit seats. At the beginning of this year, North...
Drug Overdoses in Local City Reach 3-Year High
Ambulance calls for drug overdoses have reached a three-year high in Tarrant County. On Wednesday, MedStar Mobile Healthcare reported their paramedics treated an average of three overdose patients...
Texas Medical Center to Open New Biomanufacturing Center
Texas Medical Center (TMC) will soon build a single, centralized medical ecosystem, starting with the TMC BioPort, a biomanufacturing center that will span hundreds of acres in Southwest Houston....
Deadline Looms for Texas Health Resources Insurance Deal
Healthcare insurance providerย Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and the hospital system Texas Health Resources are reaching the end of their current deal for in-network services without an...
Texas Ramping Up Efforts to Fight Fentanyl Crisis
(The Center Square) โ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has instructed state agency heads to โlook for ways to enhance all aspects of the stateโs response toโ the fentanyl crisis, including creating public...
Kim Brown: Changing Brains, Changing Lives
Most 7-year-old children spend their weekends playing, whether outside, or, these days, on a tablet. Kim Brown spent the weekends as a 7-year-old with her family back and forth from Waco to Dallas...
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 Wisdom Rd., this is the first academic medical center for North Texas. "In addition to...
Child Passenger Safety Week in Texas
During Child Passenger Safety Week, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has been raising awareness about the proper way to secure young passengers in cars and other vehicles. The weeklong...
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 Dallas-Fort Worth area specifically. In fact, a study published earlier this year found...
Texas Man With Cancer Promotes Mental Health
A Texas man battling cancer is getting extra support from an Austin-based non-profit organization that focuses on helping cancer patients confront the diagnosis through counseling. Steve Dombeck has...
‘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 hearing allegations of him illegally tampering with IV bags, causing roughly a dozen...
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 clinically defined as morbidly obese, carrying around 100 pounds more than the normal body...
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 last 10 years, two of Texas' 254 counties have maintained a consistent percentage of...
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 Control and Prevention (CDC). The federal agency determines the risk level based on the...
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 the possible contamination by foreign materials, such as metal fragments, according to the...
CDC Warns of Respiratory Virus Outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an official health advisory last Friday prompted by recent outbreaks of a respiratory illness caused by the enterovirus D68 (EV-D68). The...
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 Monday over concerns of possible E. Coli contamination of a ground beef product.ย The ground...
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 insurance plans cover drugs that prevent HIV infection at no cost to patients violates both...