Schools & Hospitals Battling Intense Flu Season
As North Texas deals with one of the worst outbreaks of flu in years, schools are dealing with an increased pressure to keep germs from spreading.
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As North Texas deals with one of the worst outbreaks of flu in years, schools are dealing with an increased pressure to keep germs from spreading.
A Dallas six-year-old girl has died after being diagnosed with the flu and sent home from a Mesquite hospital.
The Alliance area in will soon have another hospital. HCA North Texas is building a new $71 million hospital near Interstate-35W and North Tarrant Parkway.
Northwest ISD students have returned to class following the winter break, and the district is doing everything they can to stop influenza in its tracks.
A company could have an answer to the unwelcome discovery that just-purchased bread contain mold. MicroZap claims its technology allows bread to stay mold-free for 60 days.
34 former NFL players, mostly retired Dallas Cowboys, are allowing researchers to study their brains right here in North Texas. So far, the findings may be encouraging to parents of children playing contact sports.
A spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush says Bush's recovery from a bronchitis-related cough and subsequent complications is "continuing" and there's still no timetable for his release from a Houston hospital.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has signed up more than enough doctors to treat the poor women who depended on Planned Parenthood for family planning services and check-ups.
Downsize Fitness is an exclusive health club, evocative of the nation's trendiest gyms. But there's a strict requirement to join: You must be 50 pounds or more overweight.
Can losing your cool be good for you? According to a new German study, people who express their anger live two years longer, on average, than those who bottle up their rage.
Students in one North Texas classroom are learning and improving their health at the same time by ditching chairs for balls.
Attorney General Greg Abbott's office announced the deal on Friday with Pfizer Inc. and Endo Pharmaceuticals. Each company will pay $18.1 million and attorney's fees.
The nation just suffered its worst year for whooping cough in nearly six decades, according to preliminary government figures.
This could give you nightmares: 1 in 24 U.S. adults say they recently fell asleep while driving. And health officials behind the study think the number is probably higher.
The worst flu season in years has caused a sudden surge in demand for the flu vaccine, making it difficult to find at some area pharmacies.