Texas officials have notified local public health departments to brace for another $119 million in federal cuts at the end of the month that could impact the state’s disease detection ...

Revelations around abuse at a San Antonio group home have parents worried and advocates reflecting on years of issues in ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related ... that has spread from West Texas into New Mexico and Oklahoma could take a year to contain, a public health leader in the area where the outbreak ...

Issues with Medicaid coverage ... Texas Association of Community Health Centers and Texas Public Policy Foundation have been financial supporters of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan ...

While many parents believe it’s selfish to not vaccinate and therefore expose others with weakened immune systems to deadly ...

The Trump administration this week announced plans to claw back $11 billion in pandemic-era grants that could harm local Texas public health departments as they battle a historic measles outbreak.

The cuts also threaten to reverse the progress that has been made on a variety of public health issues, such as declines ... in the South Plains region of Texas. Dallas Health and Human Services ...

Public health departments in West Texas are trying to trace the spread of measles, since other than strongly suggesting people quarantine, there's nothing more local officials can do to prevent ...

Texas isn’t alone. At least 10 other, smaller outbreaks have occurred in other states, including New Mexico, Kansas and Ohio, this year. Public health officials, infectious disease researchers ...

These are public planning issues that are occurring all around ... Urban Planning Section Director of the Texas Public Health Association. The TPHA also planted a tree at the senior center to ...

Patrick said the products are being marketed to children and young adults and fueling a public health crisis. Texas still has ... a variety of potential health problems to some strains of THC ...

In response to the ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas, Lubbock Public Health and the Department of State Health Services are issuing updated MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) immunization ...