Health

If Texas doctors can’t avoid lawsuits and felony prosecution, how safe are they in determining whether their patients can obtain a medically necessary abortion?

The Dallas mother will have her abortion elsewhere after a Texas Supreme Court ruling.

The Texas Equal Access (TEA) Fund is giving away free baby supplies in Dallas on Saturday, Dec. 16 – “no strings attached.”

There’s a direct link between mental health and school absenteeism, and it’s having a snowball effect, says one expert.

“I know folks want to leave COVID in the rear-view mirror, but unfortunately it is still here,” one prominent public health expert told CBS News.

Municipalities across the Lone Star State are looking to prevent pregnant Texans from seeking abortions out of state. Now critics are wondering whether police will be carrying out “bump checks.”

Texas Original, one of three medical marijuana businesses licensed in the state, has a new location in Hurst where patients can pick up their prescriptions.

The national COVID-19 emergency may have already ended, but Dallas County recently saw a rise in cases. Experts warn that other virus outbreaks are likely.

The Dallas Police Department is seeing success with its Wellness Unit, but getting officers to seek help with mental health remains an uphill battle.

SB 8 took effect in Texas in 2021, virtually outlawing abortion and inspiring similar bans nationwide. Advocates say the state wasn’t ready for the results.

The city might soon join other large Texas cities who have already made the move, but not everyone is convinced it’s needed.

The fire department has a number of services to help firefighters and paramedics struggling with their mental health, but challenges still exist.

It is surprisingly easy to keep yourself safe from a potentially deadly sickness that has symptoms similar to COVID-19.

The Texas Legislature is considering another expansion to the state’s medical marijuana program.

Three years ago, on March 22, 2020, Dallas County Judge Clay Lewis Jenkins made an announcement that would take the COVID-19 pandemic from the front pages into North Texas homes.

This weekend, The Potter’s House will welcome as many people as it can for a type of gathering different from the typical Sunday service. On Feb. 26 from 12-5 p.m. the church is asking for blood stem cell donations to help save the life of its chief operating officer, Frank…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has placed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and two of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains directly in his crosshairs. In a Feb. 3 announcement, Paxton stated he had joined a multi-state effort designed to slow the prescribing of mifepristone “after the FDA made radical…

The Better Business Bureau is telling people to avoid a Denton-based telehealth company called Doctor Alexa that is allegedly taking customer money but not providing the services they paid for.

When it comes to reporting on what happens in and around Dallas, every year is weird in its own way. Perhaps weird is normal for Dallas? Even so, it seems as though each year since 2020 has only gotten weirder in Big D. Not surprisingly, in 2022 elected officials contributed…

Angela Smith says her husband will not be happy about this story. She launched a GoFundMe, too, and he wasn’t too keen on that. “We both have a hard time asking for help,” she says. “He doesn’t want our burdens to become anyone else’s.” But the 55-year-old says she felt…

A pair of North Texas residents pleaded not guilty on Dec. 16 to charges they defrauded insurers of more than $7 million via fake COVID-19 tests. A statement released by the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Leigha Simonton, claims that Terrance Barnard, 39, and Connie Jo Clampitt,…

Some of the bills filed early in the upcoming Texas legislative session double down on the state’s strict abortion laws. Others aim to loosen them.