'Kissing Bug' Brings Disease To Texas
A public health hazard has arrived in the Lone Star State: a bug carrying a parasite that can cause potentially fatal heart and digestive problems.
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A public health hazard has arrived in the Lone Star State: a bug carrying a parasite that can cause potentially fatal heart and digestive problems.
New Texas abortion restrictions that would leave nearly 1 million women without any close options to end a pregnancy left a federal judge Wednesday signaling unease with the long drives the law would cause some abortion-seekers.
With football practice up and running at high school fields across Texas, sidelines are packed with water bottles and cooling stations. Dehydration and overheating are top concerns when young players hit the turf during August heat.
For a little while this summer, 6-year-old Elise Cunha got to be kid. Not just the kind of kid that gets to swim and play, but also the kind that gets to eat her food without weighing it or worrying about it.
A North Texas woman says she understands first-hand what Robin Williams may have suffered through during bouts of depression.
Crossing borders is a part of life in El Paso, where people may walk into Mexico to visit family or commute to New Mexico for work. But getting an abortion doesn't require leaving town, but that could soon change.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first screening test for colon cancer that uses patient DNA to help spot potentially deadly tumors and growths.
Liberia announced Monday that it would soon receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug and give it to two sick doctors, making them the first Africans to receive some of the scarce treatment in a spiraling outbreak.
The Dallas County Health department has confirmed it's third human case of West Nile virus this season.
Monday will mark the first day of practice for high school football teams across north Texas. They are welcoming the return of a Texas tradition, but they're stuck with the heat.
On days as hot as Friday, a Fort Worth hospital is proving how dangerous the heat is for children.
Dr. Kent Brantly says he is growing stronger every and is thankful to God, his family, medical staff, and others who have prayed for his recovery.
When it comes to mosquitoes the main concern for North Texans lately has been West Nile Virus. Now health officials in Houston believe they've trapped a mosquito carrying a virus known as chikungunya.
Thinking about getting inked? Check the bottle first. The FDA is warning tattoo parlors, their customers and those buying at-home tattoo kits that not all tattoo ink is safe.
It's long been known that faulty BRCA genes greatly raise the risk for breast cancer. Now scientists say a more recently identified, less common gene can do the same.