Texas officials have notified local public health departments to brace for another $119 million in federal cuts at the end of the month that could impact the state’s disease detection ...

Revelations around abuse at a San Antonio group home have parents worried and advocates reflecting on years of issues in ...

There’s some thought that the Gaines County measles outbreak might be slowing down. However, we really don’t know how many ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related ... that has spread from West Texas into New Mexico and Oklahoma could take a year to contain, a public health leader in the area where the outbreak ...

The Trump administration this week announced plans to claw back $11 billion in pandemic-era grants that could harm local Texas public health departments as they battle a historic measles outbreak.

The cuts also threaten to reverse the progress that has been made on a variety of public health issues, such as declines ... in the South Plains region of Texas. Dallas Health and Human Services ...

Public health departments in West Texas are trying to trace the spread of measles, since other than strongly suggesting people quarantine, there's nothing more local officials can do to prevent ...

Justin Coppedge, vice president of strategy and operations for Texas 2036, spoke about this year's legislative session during ...

These are public planning issues that are occurring all around ... Urban Planning Section Director of the Texas Public Health Association. The TPHA also planted a tree at the senior center to ...

Texas isn’t alone. At least 10 other, smaller outbreaks have occurred in other states, including New Mexico, Kansas and Ohio, this year. Public health officials, infectious disease researchers ...

In response to the ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas, Lubbock Public Health and the Department of State Health Services are issuing updated MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) immunization ...