/tags/doctors doctors en-US Copyright Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:52:20 GMT /news/2024-06-21/texas-medical-board-adopts-rule-for-doctors-offering-emergency-abortions The board's guidance is aimed at providing some clarity to physicians working within the narrow emergency medical exception to Texas' abortion ban. Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:52:20 GMT /news/2024-06-21/texas-medical-board-adopts-rule-for-doctors-offering-emergency-abortions Olivia Aldridge /news/2024-06-21/proposed-abortion-ban-exceptions-in-texas-still-confuse-doctors The Texas Medical Board is meeting Friday to consider rules to guide doctors on the exceptions in the state’s abortion ban. The rules could clarify when doctors can legally perform emergency abortions, but confusion and fear over prosecution persists. Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:31:06 GMT /news/2024-06-21/proposed-abortion-ban-exceptions-in-texas-still-confuse-doctors David Martin Davies /health-wellness/2023-12-04/a-north-texas-doctor-explains-how-weight-loss-drugs-like-ozempic-and-wegovy-help-fight-obesity Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have become popular as people struggle with weight gain. Dr. Jaime Almandoz of UT Southwestern explains how they work and who should use them. Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:00:00 GMT /health-wellness/2023-12-04/a-north-texas-doctor-explains-how-weight-loss-drugs-like-ozempic-and-wegovy-help-fight-obesity Sam Baker /arts-culture/2023-10-18/mixing-medicine-and-music-world-doctors-orchestra-to-make-its-debut-in-north-texas The World Doctors Orchestra has played in more than 20 countries and has 1,800 member-musicians around the world. The North Texas members worked to bring it here this week. Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:20:12 GMT /arts-culture/2023-10-18/mixing-medicine-and-music-world-doctors-orchestra-to-make-its-debut-in-north-texas Jerome Weeks /texas-news/2023-08-21/for-one-texas-doctor-abortion-bans-are-personal-and-professional Dr. Austin Dennard is an OB-GYN who is going to give birth very soon. She also had to leave Texas to terminate a previous pregnancy because the fetus had a fatal condition. Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:00:29 GMT /texas-news/2023-08-21/for-one-texas-doctor-abortion-bans-are-personal-and-professional Selena Simmons-Duffin /health-wellness/2022-04-06/north-texas-providers-advise-second-covid-19-booster-shots-for-those-at-risk Immunocompromised people and those over the age of 50 can now get a second COVID-19 booster shot. Wed, 06 Apr 2022 20:59:56 GMT /health-wellness/2022-04-06/north-texas-providers-advise-second-covid-19-booster-shots-for-those-at-risk Elena Rivera /health-wellness/2022-03-24/north-texas-doctors-will-not-stand-by-as-state-targets-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth While some Texas politicians have labeled gender-affirming care for trans kids “child abuse,” two doctors in Dallas say nothing is changing about their practice. Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:20:08 GMT /health-wellness/2022-03-24/north-texas-doctors-will-not-stand-by-as-state-targets-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth Elena Rivera /news/2020-12-11/nine-months-on-the-pandemics-front-line-has-crushed-texas-health-care-workers-spirits-and-killed-their-colleagues The virus has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 U.S. health care workers; others could face lasting mental scars. It's “the time when we’re needed most," one doctor said, "and we’re burned out.” Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:00:55 GMT /news/2020-12-11/nine-months-on-the-pandemics-front-line-has-crushed-texas-health-care-workers-spirits-and-killed-their-colleagues Shannon Najmabadi | Texas Tribune, Edgar Walters | Texas Tribune /health-science-tech/2020-09-10/texas-physicians-are-losing-money-during-the-pandemic-they-want-lawmakers-to-make-health-insurers-pay-up The Texas Academy of Family Physicians is also asking legislators to expand Medicaid insurance coverage to low-income adults and restore funding for a program that studied racial health disparities. Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:00:05 GMT /health-science-tech/2020-09-10/texas-physicians-are-losing-money-during-the-pandemic-they-want-lawmakers-to-make-health-insurers-pay-up Edgar Walters | Texas Tribune /world/2020-02-07/china-probes-virus-alarm-doctor-death-cruise-ships-shunned China’s top Communist Party investigators are looking into “relevant issues raised by the public” about a whistleblower doctor who was threatened by… Fri, 07 Feb 2020 20:00:00 GMT /world/2020-02-07/china-probes-virus-alarm-doctor-death-cruise-ships-shunned Associated Press