/tags/health-care health care en-US Copyright Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:01:59 GMT /news/2025-07-15/americans-medical-debt-can-stay-in-credit-reports-judge-rules-what-does-that-mean The judge's decision vacated a rule imposed by the Biden administration earlier this year to keep medical debt from affecting credit scores. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:01:59 GMT /news/2025-07-15/americans-medical-debt-can-stay-in-credit-reports-judge-rules-what-does-that-mean Alana Wise /criminal-justice/2025-06-30/texas-capital-murder-case-attempts-to-severely-punish-abortion-pill-use-by-treating-a-fetus-as-a-person A North Texas man charged with capital murder after slipping mifepristone into his girlfriend’s food signals another attempt to rein in abortion pills. Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:51:57 GMT /criminal-justice/2025-06-30/texas-capital-murder-case-attempts-to-severely-punish-abortion-pill-use-by-treating-a-fetus-as-a-person Jessica Shuran Yu | The Texas Tribune, Hayden Betts | The Texas Tribune /politics/2025-06-27/is-thc-as-dangerous-as-lt-gov-dan-patrick-makes-it-out-to-be Although Patrick and hemp industry leaders have quarreled over the risks and benefits of THC, cannabis researchers say it can be addictive but doesn’t usually cause widespread psychosis or brain damage. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:00:00 GMT /politics/2025-06-27/is-thc-as-dangerous-as-lt-gov-dan-patrick-makes-it-out-to-be Hayden Betts | The Texas Tribune, Atirikta Kumar | The Texas Tribune /health-wellness/2025-06-02/tarrant-countys-aids-outreach-center-faces-uncertain-future-after-leadership-is-dismissed County officials say Tarrant County's AIDS Outreach Center will be absorbed by AIDS Healthcare Foundation. A majority of the center's leadership staff were let go and its future is uncertain. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:40:00 GMT /health-wellness/2025-06-02/tarrant-countys-aids-outreach-center-faces-uncertain-future-after-leadership-is-dismissed Dylan Duke /texas-news/2025-05-13/texas-pass-gender-trans-affirming-health-care-lgbtq The Texas House voted 87-58 to approve Senate Bill 1257 on Monday. The measure requires health care providers who provide gender transition health care to also cover any care related to "adverse effects and reversals." Tue, 13 May 2025 10:38:01 GMT /texas-news/2025-05-13/texas-pass-gender-trans-affirming-health-care-lgbtq Blaise Gainey /texas-news/2025-04-14/measles-exploded-in-texas-after-stagnant-vaccine-funding-new-cuts-threaten-the-same-across-the-us The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. Health officials say the easily preventable disease has ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs. Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:29:44 GMT /texas-news/2025-04-14/measles-exploded-in-texas-after-stagnant-vaccine-funding-new-cuts-threaten-the-same-across-the-us The Associated Press /texas-news/2025-02-14/judge-orders-new-york-doctor-to-stop-prescribing-abortion-pills-in-texas The case is set to test states' conflicting abortion laws, a battle that could rise to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:51:59 GMT /texas-news/2025-02-14/judge-orders-new-york-doctor-to-stop-prescribing-abortion-pills-in-texas Olivia Aldridge /health-wellness/2025-02-13/west-dallas-high-school-students-health-careers-uplift Uplift Education and Baylor Scott & White Health partnered to create the Uplift Heights Healthcare Institute, offering four different career pathways in health. Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:12:00 GMT /health-wellness/2025-02-13/west-dallas-high-school-students-health-careers-uplift Kailey Broussard /health-wellness/2025-02-11/trumps-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-young-people-puts-hospitals-in-a-bind Hospitals and clinics that have offered gender-affirming treatments to transgender youth reacted in a variety of ways to an executive order that aims to halt the care. Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:08:32 GMT /health-wellness/2025-02-11/trumps-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-young-people-puts-hospitals-in-a-bind Selena Simmons-Duffin /texas-news/2025-02-04/cdc-purge-of-forbidden-words-online-creates-real-world-fear-advocate-says The San Antonio AIDS Foundation's CEO says people in the LGBTQ community are fearful that their access to health information and medical care will be curtailed under the Trump Administration's executive orders regarding transgender people and queer identities, and they're terrified of the message the administration is sending. Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:44:26 GMT /texas-news/2025-02-04/cdc-purge-of-forbidden-words-online-creates-real-world-fear-advocate-says Bonnie Petrie