A demonstrator holds up an abortion flag outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear a major abortion case on the legality of a Republican-backed Louisiana law that imposes restrictions on abortion doctors, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 4, 2020. Tom Brenner | Reuters A group of abortion providers and advocates asked… Read More »
Texas veteran dies of treatable gallstone pancreatitis while waiting for hospital bed as influx of COVID-19 patients leaving doctors unable to provide care for those who don’t have the virus U.S. Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson, 46, of Belville, Texas, visited the ER last week and was diagnosed with gallstone pancreatitis The condition occurs when gallstones block the… Read More »
Loading the player… Just when people were beginning to wrap their heads around the delta variant of COVID-19, this week, Texas’ hospital system has become the first to report a case of the lambda variant. According to ABC News, Monday, Houston Methodist Hospital, which operates eight hospitals in its network, confirmed its first case of the… Read More »
A McKinney, Texas, man who was accused of stealing protected health information was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison this week. According to a U.S. Department of Justice press release, 46-year-old Demetrius Cervantes pleaded guilty this past December to conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer. WHY IT MATTERS As outlined in… Read More »
Texas will make all adults eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine beginning on Monday, March 29, making it the largest state to do so. The Texas Department of State Health Services made the announcement in a press release Tuesday, saying that the Department “expects vaccine supplies to increase next week.” “We are closing in on 10… Read More »
Some Texas hospital officials are scrambling to bring in clean water supply while delaying elective surgeries after brutal winter weather resulted in a gradually resolving power, and now emerging water, crisis this week. Texas authorities ordered 13 million people — nearly half of the population of the nation’s second-largest state — to boil tap water before drinking it because… Read More »