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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

While many parents believe it’s selfish to not vaccinate and therefore expose others with weakened immune systems to deadly ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Texas is seeking shops to provide services including public awareness, education ... Contracts will be fulfilled as needed by the two health departments, which will issue a work order request using a ...