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FDA Issues Warning Letters to Several Companies Selling Delta-8 THC

FDA Issues Warning Letters to Several Companies Selling Delta-8 THC

Texas Woman Removes Fallopian Tubes in Response to Abortion Ban

Texas Woman Removes Fallopian Tubes in Response to Abortion Ban

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McKinney Horsemanship Center ManeGait Worries Highway Expansion Will Disrupt Therapy

By Kate Pezzulli
May 9, 2022

When William is on a horse, it doesn’t matter that he can’t run or jump, according to ManeGait, the nonprofit therapeutic horsemanship center where he rides. The National Institute of Health says he's only one of two children with his diagnosis who don’t use a nighttime ventilator. Both ride horses...
Texas Republicans Celebrate Supreme Court Abortion Draft as Rights Groups Gear Up

By Patrick Strickland
May 4, 2022

Late on Monday, Politico revealed that the U.S. Supreme Court had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade ˆ the 1973 decision that ensures the right to an abortion — in a draft decision written by Justice Samuel Alito in February. The court's decision will not be official until it is...
A Wrist-Worn Device is Helping to Relieve Essential Tremor Patients

By Jacob Vaughn
Apr 20, 2022

A U.S. Air Force veteran named Ben Duncan his the max dose on his medication for essential tremor, a disease that causes involuntary shaking. His doctor told him he could keep taking the medicine and live with the side effects, get brain surgery or try a new kind of therapy. He chose the latter and says it's helped him get his life back.
In North Texas, Elite Healthcare Owner Sent to Prison Over Insurance Fraud and Kickbacks

By Patrick Strickland
Apr 14, 2022

Another day, another healthcare grifter bites the dust. On Tuesday, a North Texas healthcare company owner was sentenced to prison over fraud charges, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice in North Texas. U.S. Senior District Judge Terry Means handed down two years to Steven...
In Dallas and Around the Country, Students Need More Sleep

By Jacob Vaughn
Apr 8, 2022

One in three U.S. children don't get enough sleep. The numbers aren't as bad in Dallas, but they could be better.
City of Dallas Employees Can Now Receive Mental Health Leave

By Jacob Vaughn
Mar 10, 2022

Before, only licensed peace officers could take mental health leave after they experienced a traumatic incident on the job. Now, that will be opened up to more than 8,000 city employees.
'Texas Heat is Hell on Earth': UNT Study Explores Effects of Extreme Heat on North Texans

By Simone Carter
Feb 14, 2022

A new study from the University of North Texas has found that extreme heat alters Texans' behavior.
How Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drug Company Could Disrupt 'Big Pharma'

By Jacob Vaughn
Jan 28, 2022

Mark Cuban's big discounts on drug prices could bring big changes to the pharmaceutical industry.
Mark Cuban Launches Online Pharmacy to Provide Cheaper Medicine

By Jacob Vaughn
Jan 20, 2022

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company is starting off the new year by providing 100 different generic drugs for a huge savings.
In McKinney, Concerns Over Concrete Batch Plant Near Wildlife Sanctuary, Special Needs Facility and Soccer Club

By Jacob Vaughn
Jan 10, 2022

A Texas concrete company wants to open a plant in McKinney near a soccer park, a nature sanctuary, and a facility that houses adults with special needs. The Dallas Sierra Club and residents in the area plan to oppose the plant at a public hearing Monday night in front of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
COVID-19 Surge Slams City of Dallas Employees, Leaving Hundreds Quarantined

By Jacob Vaughn
Jan 7, 2022

COVID-19 infections are leading to staffing shortages across the country, including in Dallas.
Here's Why Grocery Stores Might Not Be Coming to Dallas' Food Deserts Anytime Soon

By Jacob Vaughn
Jan 5, 2022

While Dallas tries to solve its food desert problem, residents are left to fend for themselves.
With Omicron Driving COVID Surge, New Testing Sites Opening Up Around Dallas

By Patrick Strickland
Jan 5, 2022

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...
Last Stand: Arlington City Council to Vote on New Gas Wells Near Daycare Center

By Jacob Vaughn
Jan 4, 2022

Since 2020, Arlington residents have been fighting against a French energy conglomerate that wants to install three additional gas wells near a daycare center. That fight will come to a head at a special-called meeting tonight.
The Kids Are Getting COVID

By Jacob Vaughn
Jan 3, 2022

Pediatric COVID-19 cases and and subsequent hospitalizations are surging across the country.
‘Very Concerned’: Dallas County Raises COVID-19 Risk Level to Red

By Jacob Vaughn
Dec 30, 2021

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.
Texas Runs Low on the Monoclonal Antibody Effective Against Omicron

By Simone Carter
Dec 29, 2021

As COVID-19 cases skyrocket after the Christmas holiday, some infusion centers have run out of monoclonal antibody treatment.
No, You Won't Get 'Vaccine AIDS' If You Have Sex With the Vaccinated

By Jacob Vaughn
Dec 29, 2021

People are claiming the COVID-19 vaccines are causing a syndrome similar to AIDS. This isn't true.
UT Southwestern Medical Center Warns COVID-19 Hospitalizations Are Spiking Again in DFW

By Patrick Strickland
Dec 23, 2021

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...
North Texas Experts Fear a 'Perfect Storm' Will Drive Post-Holiday COVID-19 Surge

By Michael Murney
Dec 22, 2021

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...

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