Women’S Health Affiliate Bloggers

Austin Public Health releases new COVID-19 risk-based guidelines Austin Public Health has released new guidelines to align with the CDC’s recently announced “Community Levels.” According to these new risk-based guidelines, Austin-Travis County falls in the “low” level. AUSTIN, Texas – Austin Public Health has released new guidelines to align with […]

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – A recent study authored by Texas A&M researchers shows roughly one-third of adults between ages 18 and 64 put off medical care during the earlier stages of the pandemic. COVID-19 put major strains on the American healthcare system that extend far beyond directly battling the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve already run one review of J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. Here’s another view from a native of Appalachia on the evocative book, which has ignited discussion about whether Democrats and Republicans are addressing the issues of the post-industrial poor. Black […]

Electrifying every vehicle on Houston-area roads and powering them with renewable sources would avoid 3,000 premature deaths and reap billions in health benefits, a new analysis by the American Lung Association has concluded. Released late Tuesday, the report, Zeroing in on Healthy Air, advocates for more aggressive movement toward zero-emission […]

The Gender Health Center, located on V Street, offers advocacy and counseling services to the Transgender population. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Gender Health Center in Sacramento is writing letters to transgender advocacy organizations in Texas to show their support of trans youth.   The Gender Health Center, located on V Street, […]

Texas Health Resources named Winjie Miao to chief operating officer and has hired Laura Irvine to serve as chief experience officer. ARLINGTON, Texas, March 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — As a unified team, or dyad, dedicated to Texas Health’s transformation, Miao and Irvine will be responsible for further integrating clinical care […]

At the 2022 Texas State of Reform Health Policy Conference in Austin last week, panelists in the “Bringing an equity lens to health care” session highlighted the importance of understandable and accessible data in creating solutions to health disparities, and discussed how to depoliticize health equity conversations in Texas.   […]

As COVID-19 cases decline in North Texas, case numbers are spiking in Europe and Asia, led by omicron subvariant BA.2. Texas health experts are closely watching virus trends abroad, but they say there’s little concern the BA.2 variant will lead to a dangerous spike in the state. First detected in […]

Some are accusing Twitter of applying its policy on hateful conduct unequally after it allowed a tweet from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that intentionally misgendered Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine to remain on its platform. On Sunday, USA Today honored Levine, the first openly transgender Senate-confirmed federal official, as […]

This week’s show also covered the latest updates on border security, a child abuse investigation at a foster shelter and more. Inside Texas Politics host Teresa Woodard, filling in for Jason Whitely this week, talked with newsmakers from across Texas about the issues facing transgender children, the state’s natural gas […]