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  Get Your Groceries and Mental Health Checked Out at Walmart

  January 17 at 4 a.m.

  There are countless things you can buy in a Walmart. TVs, dishwashing detergent, all the modern creature comforts are a few crowded aisles away. But since November, a Walmart in DFW has added one item to the list: therapy. Beacon Care Services, an offshoot of Boston-based behavioral health services company...

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  Dallas County Hit With First Flu Deaths of 2018-19 Season

  January 10 at 4 a.m.

  Two adults are the first Dallas County residents to die from the flu this season, Dallas County Health and Human Services officials announced Wednesday afternoon. The two victims were 59 and 66 years old, according to the county, which does not provide any additional identifying information about those who succumb...

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  Jim Weathers Believes He Can Heal You, But Just Don't Ask How He Does It

  January 10 at 4 a.m.

  Performing miracles at a rented duplex in Oak Lawn this week, ladies and gentlemen how ’bout a big round of applause forrrr … God? “No, I’m not God,” says Jim Weathers. “Just his big, ugly conduit.” Um, yeah, about that glaring lack of a miracle-worker denial. That’s because Weathers —...

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  What Friday's Affordable Care Act Ruling Means for Texas

  Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  The headline — "Fort Worth Judge Strikes Down Affordable Care Act" — was easy enough to understand, at least on its face, Friday evening. The potential fallout was harder to break down. Yes, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, handpicked by the Texas Attorney General's Office to hear its claims that...

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  Texas Has Highest Rate of Uninsured Children In United States

  Friday, November 30, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  More adult Texans, and a higher percentage of them, are without health insurance than anywhere else in the United States, the Observer reported in September. A new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families shows that kids in the state are no better off. More than 835,000 Texas...

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  Meet Hank Hermann, the Man Who Gave Dallas and Texas Its First Free Pharmacy

  Monday, November 12, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Few things can cause a greater sense of sticker shock in America than getting the bill for a bottle of pills not covered by insurance. A 2016 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that Americans spend $458 more per capita on prescription drugs compared with...