News
Cluster Of HIV Cases Involves Hispanic Men In San Antonio
Posted on · Texas, along with California and New York, has the highest number of new cases in the country.
Health & Science
Texas Officials Call For More Pregnant Women To Be Tested For Zika
Posted on · The new health alert comes as the weather warms and mosquitoes become more plentiful.
Health & Science
Family Nurture Intervention May Help NICU Babies
Posted on · Each year, 1 in 10 babies born in the U.S. spends time in the NICU, the neonatal intensive care unit. Years later, many of these children have...
Politics
Talk About Obamacare Repeal Creates Questions From Consumers
Posted on · With all of the talk about Obamacare being repealed, some people don’t realize it’s still the law. And there’s an important deadline coming up.
Health & Science
CDC Awards Texas $5 Million To Fight Zika
Posted on · Now that Brownsville has confirmed local cases of Zika , the federal government is sending more money to the Texas to help control further spread of the virus.
Health & Science
Four More Local Zika Cases Confirmed In Texas
Posted on · Four more cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus have been confirmed in Texas, in the same Brownsville neighborhood where the first cases were pinpointed last month.
Health & Science
Rio Grande Valley Zika Case Prompts Prenatal Caution
Posted on · Doctors in the Rio Grande Valley have stepped up their observation of pregnant women following the first suspected case of locally-transmitted Zika.
News
First case of Zika in Texas Likely Spread By Mosquito
Posted on · Texas has already documented 257 cases of travel-related Zika, but this is the first case thought to be transmitted from an infected mosquito to someone who has not traveled.
News
Texas Researchers Create An Obesity Genome Registry To Tackle a Weighty Problem
Posted on · Texas has one of the highest obesity rates in the nation. One in three Texas adults is considered obese. Now, San Antonio researchers are using South Texas volunteers to collect an obesity genome registry. This data bank will help tackle a weighty issue.