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A Closer Look at the revised CDC Guidelines on Quarantine and Isolation
Posted on · Experts share lessons we should be learning as we live through this COVID-19 Pandemic.
Posted on · Experts share lessons we should be learning as we live through this COVID-19 Pandemic.
Posted on · Experts continue to address perceived concerns surrounding J&J, Pfizer, and Moderna vaccines, and how to gather safely this time of year amid the Omicron surge.
Posted on · Psychological, medical, and legal experts share their thoughts on the depth of the injuries sustained by festival-goers and their friends and families.
Posted on · The author of 'Attention: A Love Story' shares how she left behind her medication in the search for understanding the true depth of her attention.
Posted on · We take a look into variants, boosters, and why the mRNA vaccine became the way to combat COVID.
Posted on · Mental health experts examine ways to reduce stress and why the term "self-care" is misunderstood.
Posted on · The lab has access to a high-security facility that Pfizer needed to prove its COVID-19 vaccine was working. Now the scientists there are testing the vaccine's effectiveness against viral variants.
Posted on · Vaccine hesitancy is still a hot-button issue leaving some to wonder if "mutual respect and understanding" are still viable options towards those who refuse to wear masks or accept even the existence of COVID.
Posted on · Also, the John Sealy Distinguished Chair in Innovations in Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch offers some reassuring news regarding vaccines versus the new COVID-19 variants.
Posted on · On Thursday's show: The latest in the battle over mail-in balloting in Harris County, local researchers are determined to catch the next pandemic before it spreads from animals to humans, advice for job seekers amid the pandemic, and how alligator snapping turtles came to thrive in Buffalo Bayou in the shadow of downtown.
Posted on · A state official and an infectious diseases expert answer listeners’ questions about COVID-19.
Posted on · A vaccine, developed by Houston-area researchers beginning in 2010, has been shelved due to a lack of funding but is "worth investigating" for potential use on the current coronavirus outbreak.
Posted on · On Thursday's Houston Matters: A new study about gun violence. The 2019 energy industry forecast. The city's best new restaurants. And the evolution of...well...evolution.
Posted on · Doctors Joan Nichols and Joaquin Cortiella transplanted bio-engineered lungs into pigs
Posted on · On Monday's Houston Matters: A Santa Fe student explores our nation's gun culture. We learn why Texas firefighters with cancer are consistently denied workers comp. We talk with UTMB researchers who bio-engineered a set of human lungs. And Jeff Balke updates us on local sports.