Health Archives

September 26, 2017

Donations Fund No-Cost Abortions for Hurricane Harvey Survivors

Whole Woman’s Health and the Lilith Fund are working to clear the path for hurricane survivors to safely access abortions at low cost.

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September 12, 2017

How to Clean Up Flooded Homes Without Getting Sick

Despite health risks, volunteers have stepped up to help in Harvey’s aftermath. Here’s a guide to safe mucking.

By Dan Oko

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September 4, 2017

Houston Braces for a Mosquito Swarm

Are mosquito-borne illnesses Hurricane Harvey's next threat?

By Joe Hanson

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August 23, 2017

Munro Cullum’s Concussion Count

A chat with the Dallas doctor in charge of the country’s most ambitious study of traumatic brain injuries among student athletes.

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May 8, 2017

Will Texas Republicans Suffer for Their Obamacare Vote?

Nearly 700,000 Texans have ACA insurance in districts represented by Republicans who voted to eliminate it.

By R.G. Ratcliffe

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March 13, 2017

Cecile Richards Talks Tech, Politics, And Planned Parenthood

The executive director of Planned Parenthood and daughter of former governor Ann Richards talks with 'Texas Monthly' at SXSW.

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March 9, 2017

Doctors, Patients Need to Talk About Care Costs

In a time of high deductibles, medical debt is rising.

By Christopher Moriates

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February 23, 2017

Texas Might Be Heading For A Major Measles Outbreak

Professionals point fingers at anti-vaxxers, but the movement remains strong.

By Leif Reigstad

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February 14, 2017

The Faces of Obamacare

For many Americans, the controversial health law is government run amok. But for these people in San Antonio, it’s been a lifesaver.

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December 21, 2016

This Year in Abortion Access in Texas

Much has happened this year—and there may be more to come.

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November 23, 2016

Out of Africa

Winning the MacArthur “genius grant” was a career highlight for Rice professor Rebecca Richards-Kortum. But it was a visit to Malawi that changed her life.

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November 23, 2016

The Department of Public Safety Wants to Impose New Rules Regarding CBD Oil

This could make the marijuana-derived drug, which the legislature legalized for patients with intractable epilepsy, hard to get.

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October 4, 2016

How a Lawsuit Could Impact the Future of Health Care in Texas

In many ways, telemedicine represents the future of health care—yet some fear new rules in Texas could stunt its growth here.

By John Daniel Davidson

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September 14, 2016

Northeast Texans Are Dying At A Way Higher Rate Than Everyone Else

What’s putting so many northeastern Texans in the grave?

By Leif Reigstad

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September 8, 2016

What We Can Learn About The Stigma Of Mental Illness From Susan Hawk

The embattled Dallas County DA resigned this week.

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September 1, 2016

The Anti-Vaccination Movement Is Gaining Ground In Texas

More parents are opting out of getting their children vaccinated, and there’s no sign the trend will slow down.

By Leif Reigstad

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August 24, 2016

Big Men on Campus

Are all those three-hundred-pound high school football players a health crisis waiting to happen?

By Laura Beil

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August 24, 2016

The ‘Biased Ideology’ Argument Against An Anti-Abortion Group’s Grant Sounds Familiar

How Planned Parenthood was edged out as the state's women's health provider and replaced by the anti-abortion Heidi Group.

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August 12, 2016

Proposed Fetal Tissue Disposal Rules Would Be Yet Another Hurdle For Abortion Providers

The rule changes aren’t based on any real health or safety concerns.

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August 9, 2016

A Baby In Harris County Died From Zika-Related Symptoms

It’s the second such death in the United States.

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July 25, 2016

The Risk Of Exposure To Brain-Eating Amoeba Spikes In The Summer Months

For the third time in less than a year, a Texas youth has died from a brain-eating amoeba.

By John Nova Lomax

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July 15, 2016

Longest-Serving Female Legislator Tells All

Senfronia Thompson has a few things to say about Hillary Clinton, Dan Patrick, and the foster care system.

By Dave Mann

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July 6, 2016

A Better Pill to Swallow

The dean of Dell Medical School wants to reinvent health care for the twenty-first century.

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June 27, 2016

The Long Tale Of HB2 Comes to a Close

Three years after Wendy Davis’s filibuster, Texas’s anti-abortion law is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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May 23, 2016

Music Monday: Florence + The Machine Performed A Private Concert For A Teenage Fan At Hospice Austin

The British rock band made an extra-special stop on their trip through Texas.

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April 7, 2016

Couple Says Texas’s Laws Forced A Woman To Deliver A Stillborn Baby

A Reddit post turned viral news story reminds Texans of the consequences to the state’s abortion laws.

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March 28, 2016

The Effects Of The Undercover Planned Parenthood Videos Reach The U.S. House

The long tail of the Planned Parenthood videos continues to get longer as a House subcommittee prepares to subpoena Parkinson's researchers.

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March 3, 2016

Whatever Happened To The ‘Unruly Mob’?

As HB2 lands at the Supreme Court, the activists on both sides that gathered at the Capitol in 2013 are still fighting their battles.

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March 2, 2016

What The Supreme Court Oral Arguments On Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt Told Us About The Future Of Texas’s Abortion Laws

Sotomayor, Ginsburg, Kagan, and Breyer do not like it. Alito and Roberts seem to like it a lot, Thomas stayed quiet, and Kennedy remains a wild card.

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March 1, 2016

Uterus Transplants Are Coming To Baylor, But Ethical Considerations Also Loom

Baylor University Medical Center will be one of the first hospitals in the U.S. to begin this groundbreaking clinical trial.

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February 26, 2016

Texas A&M And The Gates Foundation May Have Created A Supercondom

It fights AIDS even when it breaks, helps a fella out, and claims to feel better than not using a condom at all.

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February 2, 2016

What You Should Know About Zika In Texas

With confirmed cases of Zika throughout the state, here’s what you need to be aware of.

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February 2, 2016

Sandbranch Is Yet Another Poor, Black Community Without Clean Water

They've been without clean water for decades. How is this still the case in 2016?

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January 27, 2016

Put to the Test

For children with debilitating epilepsy, an unprecedented medical trial in Fort Worth offers a glimmer of hope. But if it works, is the state ready to embrace medical marijuana?

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January 26, 2016

Everything You Need To Know About The Planned Parenthood Videographer Indictments

That’s definitely not how anyone saw that investigation going.

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December 22, 2015

What You Should Know About H3N2, The Dog Flu Strain That Hit Texas

H3N2 is ”highly contagious,” according to veterinarians, but with a low mortality rate—so be aware, but don’t panic.

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October 27, 2015

The FDA Confiscated A Supply Of Execution Drugs Texas Is Thought To Have Imported Illegally

With the increased difficulty of maintaining a pentobarbital supply, Texas and Arizona are accused of importing an unapproved drug.

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October 21, 2015

The Unkindest Cut

The fight to keep thousands of Medicaid-dependent kids from losing treatment.

By Emily DePrang

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October 19, 2015

Can Texas Really Cut Funding To Planned Parenthood?

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has declared that it’ll no longer process reimbursements to the non-profit.

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September 16, 2015

An Undocumented Harris County Woman Faced Deportation After Being Arrested At Her OB-GYN

According to Blanca Borrego's family, she was taken into an exam room where sheriff's deputies were waiting for her.

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August 25, 2015

The First Anti-HERO Radio Ad Is Pretty Ugly

The ad, paid for by Houston Unites, relies on the bathroom panic surrounding transgender women.

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August 20, 2015

El Paso’s Abortion Clinic Can Reopen, At Least For Now

Reproductive Services will become the first shuttered clinic to reopen its doors after HB2, but its future is still unclear.

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June 10, 2015

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Left the Anti-Abortion Bill HB2 Mostly Intact

The controversial 2013 bill’s ongoing journey through the legal system has been settled in federal appeals court. Next stop: SCOTUS or bust.

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May 21, 2015

Another Omnibus Abortion Bill Is Headed to the Texas Senate Floor

The Senate Health and Human Services Committee sent a bill that would severely tighten restrictions on receiving a confidential abortion as a minor to the Senate floor.

By Hannah Smothers

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May 14, 2015

Here’s What the 2015 Texas Legislature Has Had to Say About Abortion So Far

In the waning weeks of the 84th Texas Legislature, abortion remains a hot topic in the Capitol. Where do things stand—and where are they going?

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April 21, 2015

Blue Bellghazi Continues: Total Recall Issued for All Products Everywhere

Just when the company thought it had the problem licked, another listeria contamination shuts down production.

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April 8, 2015

The Most Walkable Cities in Texas

Houston, Dallas, and … Laredo?

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April 7, 2015

Here’s What We Know So Far About the Texas Women’s Health Program

In 2011 the Texas Legislature turned down federal money in order to exclude Planned Parenthood from receiving state funds. Four years later a new report shows what happens when a state takes over the Women’s Health Program.

By Hannah Smothers