Health

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.

In post-pandemic Texas and beyond, nurses are facing long-term challenges.

A process server claimed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ran from him as he tried to serve subpoenas from a federal lawsuit.

A year and a half since COVID-19 first hit and shuttered much of the world, some hardline Texas conservatives are still spreading wild conspiracy theories about the vaccine. In a Twitter post on Thursday, the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog media outlet Right Wing Watch published a video of Texas-based doctor, right-wing…

Dozens of state lawmakers have called on DSHS to publish a report on the number of pregnancy-related deaths in Texas.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says in new, multi-state billboards that people faced with abortion bans can go to his state to get the procedure legally.

Dallas County has now received shipments of the new, updated bivalent COVID-19 vaccine

High school-aged young people experienced a 75% week-over-week increase in COVID-19 cases.

Cards Against Humanity is donating 100% of its profits from anti-abortion states to the National Network of Abortion.

Dallas County is seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases thanks to the highly transmissible BA.5 subvariant.

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging new federal guidance aimed at protecting doctors who perform emergency abortions.

Dallas County has documented more than 600,000 cases of COVID-19 throughout the pandemic.

The staccato thud of hammers broke the predawn stillness one morning in 1988. Activists dotted the vacant lot. They carried some 700 hand-painted white crosses bearing the names of Dallas County residents who’d succumbed to AIDS. Members of the Gay Urban Truth Squad (GUTS), a Dallas activist group, drove the…