Health

Local health experts are cautiously optimistic as coronavirus cases have declined but warn of potential future surges.

The View co-host Sunny Hostin on Wednesday said she surprisingly agrees with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s stance on a federal no-fly list for unruly airplane passengers.

This wasn’t Deron Tolbert’s first trip to Dallas County Jail. The 31-year-old was arrested last May on a charge of indecent exposure. At the time, he had already struggled with a severe mental illness called schizoaffective disorder for years and was living with his mother in Dallas. Jailers figured out that…

Until staffing levels are replenished, residents should expect delays from Dallas Animal Services, especially for low priority calls.

Medical labs are facing staffing shortages amid a rise in omicron cases.

COVID-19 infections are leading to staffing shortages across the country, including in Dallas.

Amid the latest surge in COVID-19, Dallas ISD has reported the lowest teacher turnover rate in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of positive cases in Texas is hitting historic highs thanks to the highly contagious omicron variant. Although some medical experts say the variant could be less lethal than others before it, hospitalizations in Texas this week doubled amid a shortage of…

Pediatric COVID-19 cases and and subsequent hospitalizations are surging across the country.

As COVID-19 cases surge across the country, Dallas County is urging residents to do what they can to slow the spread of the virus.

As the omicron variant sweeps across Texas, Dallas County has been hammered with new cases. In just the past 14 days, the rate of positive cases has gone up over 350%. The county averaged more than 1,000 new positive cases per day over the past seven days alone. Dallas’ case…

As COVID-19 cases skyrocket after the Christmas holiday, some infusion centers have run out of monoclonal antibody treatment.

People are claiming the COVID-19 vaccines are causing a syndrome similar to AIDS. This isn’t true.

When Timothy Gutierrez felt a runny nose and sinus congestion coming on about a week ago, he was sure it was COVID-19. Gutierrez, who has been held in Dallas County Jail since mid-November on an alleged probation violation stemming from a previous drug-related charge, noticed many of the inmates coughing and…

With more than 5,700 coronavirus-related deaths in Dallas County to date, we’re just a couple months shy of the two-year anniversary of COVID-19 in Texas, and earlier this month, the state reported its first case of the new omicron variant. This week, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center warned…

Dr. Erin Carlson was “horrified” to learn that unvaccinated people had regularly been visiting her 84-year-old father, who suffers from kidney failure and other underlying conditions, without masks.  When Carlson, a professor of public health at the University of Texas at Arlington, asked her elderly mother why they’d been allowing…

Airline CEOs are questioning masks on planes, but experts worry it could give passengers the green light to ramp up bad behavior.

Around Texas and beyond, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins has built a public profile for his fight against Gov. Greg Abbott’s approach to combating the coronavirus. Jenkins has called for better protections against the virus, has criticized the state’s Republican officials for lax measurements and even evicted J.J. Koch from a Commissioners…

Dallas ISD has announced its mask mandate will remain in place until Martin Luther King Day.

In a tweet about immigration, some said Gov. Greg Abbott appeared to confuse South America with South Africa.

Buyers beware: Texas is the No. 2 state for puppy fraud.

Ahead of Thanksgiving dinner, experts provide tips for encouraging holdouts to get the COVID-19 vaccine.