#medicinewellness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #medicinewellness, aggregated by home.social.
-
Pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company plans to build a $6.5 billion manufacturing hub near Lake Houston, the company announced Tuesday.
#Business #HealthScience #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #EliLilly #GovGregAbbott #LakeHouston #PharmaceuticalCompanies #WeightLoss #WeightLossDrugs
-
Senate Bill 12, a sprawling parental rights law that applies to K-12 schools, has created confusion about whether school employees must obtain prior consent for a range of health-related services.
#Education #EducationNews #Healthcare #HISD #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #Texas #HoustonSchools #ParentalConsent #SchoolNurses #SenateBill12 #TexasLegislature #TexasPublicSchools
-
Senate Bill 12, a sprawling parental rights law that applies to K-12 schools, has created confusion about whether school employees must obtain prior consent for a range of health-related services.
#Education #EducationNews #Healthcare #HISD #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #Texas #HoustonSchools #ParentalConsent #SchoolNurses #SenateBill12 #TexasLegislature #TexasPublicSchools
-
Senate Bill 12, a sprawling parental rights law that applies to K-12 schools, has created confusion about whether school employees must obtain prior consent for a range of health-related services.
#Education #EducationNews #Healthcare #HISD #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #Texas #HoustonSchools #ParentalConsent #SchoolNurses #SenateBill12 #TexasLegislature #TexasPublicSchools
-
Senate Bill 12, a sprawling parental rights law that applies to K-12 schools, has created confusion about whether school employees must obtain prior consent for a range of health-related services.
#Education #EducationNews #Healthcare #HISD #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #Texas #HoustonSchools #ParentalConsent #SchoolNurses #SenateBill12 #TexasLegislature #TexasPublicSchools
-
Senate Bill 12, a sprawling parental rights law that applies to K-12 schools, has created confusion about whether school employees must obtain prior consent for a range of health-related services.
#Education #EducationNews #Healthcare #HISD #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #Texas #HoustonSchools #ParentalConsent #SchoolNurses #SenateBill12 #TexasLegislature #TexasPublicSchools
-
In an interview about the new book he co-authored, "Science Under Siege," Dr. Peter Hotez of Houston talks about forces driving the anti-science movement, the risks it poses — and why he won't debate RFK Jr.
#HealthScience #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #National #News #BaylorCollegeOfMedicine #DrPeterHotez #JoeRogan #RFKJr #Science #ScienceUnderSiege
-
An incoming senior at Cypress Springs High School near Houston is recovering at Texas Children’s Hospital after suffering a heat stroke that left him in a coma for nine days, according to his mother.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Sports #CypressSpringsHighSchool #HeatStroke #HighSchoolFootball #JarvisSpires #TexasChildrenSHospitalHouston #TexasHeat
-
As Texas schools face at least $600 million in federal funding cuts, multiple mental health programs, particularly those implemented in response to the pandemic and mass shootings, are at risk of losing funding.
#Education #EducationNews #HealthScience #Healthcare #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #Texas #ChildrenSMentalHealth #FederalFundingCuts #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAmericaOfGreaterHouston #TexasPublicSchools #TexasSchoolFunding
-
As communities across the state mourn the more than 100 people killed in last weekend's flood, a Texas child psychologist is offering insight into how families can help their children cope with the tragedy.
#Flooding #HealthScience #Healthcare #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #CentralTexasFlooding #ChildrenSHealthSystem #MentalHealthCare
-
More than 20 people from the Houston area were recently charged in federal court as part of what the U.S. Department of Justice called one of the largest coordinated healthcare fraud crackdowns in its history.
#Crime #HealthScience #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #DepartmentOfJustice #HoustonCrime #MedicalCare #MedicalFraud #SouthernDistrictOfTexas
-
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he’s still on the fence about whether he’ll sign or veto Senate Bill 3, a measure that would ban consumable products containing THC, the psychoactive compound found in cannabis.
#Business #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #DrugPolicy #LtGovDanPatrick #Tetrahydrocannabinol #TexasGovGregAbbott #THC
-
Texas Children’s Hospital says it saw more kids than ever in its emergency room last month because of behavioral health issues.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #HISD #Houston #HoustonMatters #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #BaylorCollegeOfMedicine #MentalHealth #MentalHealthCrisisAmongYouth #PediatricBehavioralHealth #TexasChildrenS #TexasChildrenSHospitalHouston
-
After a two-and-a-half-hour debate Wednesday night that started as an effort to regulate hemp-based products containing THC, the Texas House gave its initial approval to a complete ban on such products.
#Business #HealthScience #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #Cannabis #ConsumableHemp #LieutenantGovernorDanPatrick #Tetrahydrocannabinol #THC
-
The state's House of Representatives could vote to expand the Texas Compassionate Use Program for medical cannabis as early as Tuesday.
#HealthScience #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #CompassionateUse #Drugs #MedicalCannabis #TexasCompassionateUseProgram #THC
-
Senate Bill 3 would ban the sale of virtually all consumable hemp products. The House Committee on State Affairs unanimously passed a committee substitute "substantially different" from the original bill.
#Business #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #ConsumableHemp #DrugUse #Drugs #LieutenantGovernorDanPatrick #StateRepKenKing
-
Education and child advocacy leaders are warning that a proposal to eliminate federal funding for Head Start could devastate Texas families, erasing decades of progress in early childhood education and worsening an ongoing child care crisis.
#Education #EducationNews #FortBend #HarrisCounty #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #ChildCare #ChildCareCrisis #ChildrenAtRisk #FederalFundingCuts #HeadStart #NationalHeadStartAssociation
-
Education and child advocacy leaders are warning that a proposal to eliminate federal funding for Head Start could devastate Texas families, erasing decades of progress in early childhood education and worsening an ongoing child care crisis.
#Education #EducationNews #FortBend #HarrisCounty #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #ChildCare #ChildCareCrisis #ChildrenAtRisk #FederalFundingCuts #HeadStart #NationalHeadStartAssociation
-
Education and child advocacy leaders are warning that a proposal to eliminate federal funding for Head Start could devastate Texas families, erasing decades of progress in early childhood education and worsening an ongoing child care crisis.
#Education #EducationNews #FortBend #HarrisCounty #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #ChildCare #ChildCareCrisis #ChildrenAtRisk #FederalFundingCuts #HeadStart #NationalHeadStartAssociation
-
Education and child advocacy leaders are warning that a proposal to eliminate federal funding for Head Start could devastate Texas families, erasing decades of progress in early childhood education and worsening an ongoing child care crisis.
#Education #EducationNews #FortBend #HarrisCounty #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #ChildCare #ChildCareCrisis #ChildrenAtRisk #FederalFundingCuts #HeadStart #NationalHeadStartAssociation
-
Education and child advocacy leaders are warning that a proposal to eliminate federal funding for Head Start could devastate Texas families, erasing decades of progress in early childhood education and worsening an ongoing child care crisis.
#Education #EducationNews #FortBend #HarrisCounty #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #ChildCare #ChildCareCrisis #ChildrenAtRisk #FederalFundingCuts #HeadStart #NationalHeadStartAssociation
-
Houston-based Empower Pharmacy is one of two compounding pharmacies sued by the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly earlier this month for allegedly selling “knockoff” versions of its weight loss and diabetes drugs.
#Business #Court #HealthScience #Healthcare #Local #MedicineWellness #News #EliLilly #EmpowerPharmacy #FDADrugApproval #Mounjaro #TirzepatideODT #Zepbound
-
Four people tied to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office committed suicide recently, calling attention to ongoing mental health struggles among law enforcement.
#HarrisCounty #HealthScience #LawEnforcement #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Police #Texas #FirstResponders #HarrisCountySheriffSOffice #MentalHealth #TexasLawEnforcement #TexasLawEnforcementPeerNetwork
-
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is looking to make all THC consumables illegal in Texas. That would take a hemp industry that has grown to roughly $8 billion by his own estimate and drive it underground.
#Business #HealthScience #InDepth #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #PublicSafety #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #CharlesPerry #ConsumableHemp #DrugUse #Drugs #LieutenantGovernorDanPatrick #MilitaryVeterans #THC
-
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is looking to make all THC consumables illegal in Texas. That would take a hemp industry that has grown to roughly $8 billion by his own estimate and drive it underground.
#Business #HealthScience #InDepth #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #PublicSafety #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #CharlesPerry #ConsumableHemp #DrugUse #Drugs #LieutenantGovernorDanPatrick #MilitaryVeterans #THC
-
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is looking to make all THC consumables illegal in Texas. That would take a hemp industry that has grown to roughly $8 billion by his own estimate and drive it underground.
#Business #HealthScience #InDepth #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #PublicSafety #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #CharlesPerry #ConsumableHemp #DrugUse #Drugs #LieutenantGovernorDanPatrick #MilitaryVeterans #THC
-
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is looking to make all THC consumables illegal in Texas. That would take a hemp industry that has grown to roughly $8 billion by his own estimate and drive it underground.
#Business #HealthScience #InDepth #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #PublicSafety #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #CharlesPerry #ConsumableHemp #DrugUse #Drugs #LieutenantGovernorDanPatrick #MilitaryVeterans #THC
-
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is looking to make all THC consumables illegal in Texas. That would take a hemp industry that has grown to roughly $8 billion by his own estimate and drive it underground.
#Business #HealthScience #InDepth #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #PublicSafety #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #CharlesPerry #ConsumableHemp #DrugUse #Drugs #LieutenantGovernorDanPatrick #MilitaryVeterans #THC
-
Texas could lose nearly 68,000 jobs and over $400 million in tax revenue in 2026 if federal cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program pass Congress, according to a new report.
#Food #Healthcare #MedicineWellness #National #News #Texas #ChildrenSHealth #Medicaid #Snap #TexasNews #USCongress #USHouseOfRepresentatives
-
A bill that would ban the sale of THC products has passed the Texas Senate.
#Business #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #Texas #DanPatrick #Marijuana #TexasHempBusinessCouncil #TexasLegislature #TexasSenate #THCProdcuts
-
A bill that would ban the sale of THC products has passed the Texas Senate.
#Business #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #Texas #DanPatrick #Marijuana #TexasHempBusinessCouncil #TexasLegislature #TexasSenate #THCProdcuts
-
A Houston-area midwife was arrested after allegedly performing illegal abortions and operating clinics without a license, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Monday.
#Abortion #Healthcare #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #AbortionClinics #AGKenPaxton #AttorneyGeneralKenPaxton #TexasAbortion #TexasAbortionLaw #WallerCountyDistrictAttorneySOffice
-
Vaccine hesitancy was rising even before COVID-19 emerged – but the pandemic exacerbated the trend. More kindergartners are opting out of school vaccine requirements, and Texas lawmakers are trying to make it even easier to do so.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #COVIDVaccines #COVID19 #KUT #TexasChildrenSHospitalHouston #VaccinationRates #Vaccines
-
The Houston area -- so far -- remains untouched by a West Texas measles outbreak that grew to more than 200 cases on Tuesday. The city health department is monitoring wastewater treatment plants for the virus.
#CityOfHouston #HarrisCounty #HealthScience #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #HoustonHealthDepartment #Measles #MeaslesWestTexasOutbreak #TexasDepartmentOfStateHealthServices #Vaccines
-
Houston health experts were quick to dispel a rumor that's been circulating amid a measles outbreak in West Texas, making it clear that no vitamin can replace the highly effective measles vaccine.
#HarrisCounty #HealthScience #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #BaylorCollegeOfMedicine #CityOfHouston #Measles #VitaminA #WestTexasOutbreak
-
Monday is "First Responders Day" at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, where volunteers on the medical and safety committee also activate when someone is injured at NRG Park.
#Events #HealthScience #Houston #HoustonLivestockShowAndRodeo #LawEnforcement #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Police #FirstRespondersDay #HoustonRodeo #NRGPark #RodeoCommittees #RodeoVolunteers
-
Houston and Harris County leaders, along with local health officials, have two main messages for residents of the region: Get vaccinated against measles and get familiar with its symptoms.
#CityOfHouston #HarrisCounty #HealthScience #Healthcare #Houston #HoustonMayor #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #HarrisCountyJudgeLinaHidalgo #HoustonHealthDepartment #HoustonMayorJohnWhitmire #Measles #MeaslesWestTexasOutbreak #TexasDepartmentOfStateHealthServices
-
Following allegations that a Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center surgeon manipulated government transplant records, a national organization that manages the distribution of organs flagged the Houston hospital for failing to comply with standards.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #LiverTransplants #MemorialHermann #MemorialHermannHealthSystem #MemorialHermannHospitalSystem #TexasMedicalCenter #UnitedNetworkForOrganSharing
-
Almost five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down Houston's annual rodeo. Now, as vaccination rates have since declined in the region and across the state, a measles outbreak is budding in Texas as this year’s rodeo is set to start.
#HarrisCounty #HealthScience #Healthcare #Houston #HoustonMatters #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #Measles #MeaslesOutbreak #VaccinationRates #Vaccine
-
The largest measles outbreak in decades has reached San Antonio, New Braunfels and San Marcos, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
#HealthScience #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #GainesCounty #HoustonHealthDepartment #Measles #SanAntonioRiverWalk #TexasDepartmentOfStateHealthServices #TexasMeaslesOutbreak
-
Harris County has joined a nationwide legal effort seeking to block funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) made by the administration of President Donald Trump.
#HarrisCounty #HealthScience #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #National #News #Politics #FederalFunding #FederalFundingCuts #HarrisCountyAttorneyChristianMenefee #NationalInstitutesOfHealth #TexasMedicalCenter
-
Two of the Houston area’s largest hospitals have announced they will soon be entering a joint venture to combat childhood cancer.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #CancerPatients #HoustonHospitals #MDAndersonCancerCenterHouston #PediatricCancer #TexasChildrenSHospitalHouston #UniversityOfTexas
-
U.S. veterans are worried that two deadly New Year's Day incidents involving current and former service members could increase stigma, or paint veterans as somehow damaged.
#Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #National #News #BourbonStreetTruckAttack #DepartmentOfVeteransAffairs #MentalHealth #NewOrleans #ShamsudDinJabbar #Veterans
-
South Korea, long a close ally of the U.S., has significantly increased its budget for veterans and their family members. Even though it lags behind the Americans' level of support, the VA in the U.S. can learn from its East Asian partner.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #InDepth #International #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #DepartmentOfVeteransAffairs #NorthKorea #PACTAct #Ptsd #RepublicOfKorea #SouthKorea #VeteransHealth
-
South Korea, long a close ally of the U.S., has significantly increased its budget for veterans and their family members. Even though it lags behind the Americans' level of support, the VA in the U.S. can learn from its East Asian partner.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #InDepth #International #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #DepartmentOfVeteransAffairs #NorthKorea #PACTAct #Ptsd #RepublicOfKorea #SouthKorea #VeteransHealth
-
South Korea, long a close ally of the U.S., has significantly increased its budget for veterans and their family members. Even though it lags behind the Americans' level of support, the VA in the U.S. can learn from its East Asian partner.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #InDepth #International #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #DepartmentOfVeteransAffairs #NorthKorea #PACTAct #Ptsd #RepublicOfKorea #SouthKorea #VeteransHealth
-
South Korea, long a close ally of the U.S., has significantly increased its budget for veterans and their family members. Even though it lags behind the Americans' level of support, the VA in the U.S. can learn from its East Asian partner.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #InDepth #International #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #DepartmentOfVeteransAffairs #NorthKorea #PACTAct #Ptsd #RepublicOfKorea #SouthKorea #VeteransHealth
-
South Korea, long a close ally of the U.S., has significantly increased its budget for veterans and their family members. Even though it lags behind the Americans' level of support, the VA in the U.S. can learn from its East Asian partner.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #InDepth #International #MedicineWellness #News #Politics #DepartmentOfVeteransAffairs #NorthKorea #PACTAct #Ptsd #RepublicOfKorea #SouthKorea #VeteransHealth
-
Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law. This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other.
#Abortion #Court #HealthScience #MedicineWellness #National #News #Texas #AttorneyGeneralKenPaxton #Mifepristone #Misoprostol #TexasAbortionBan #TexasAbortionLaws #TexasAbortionLawsuit
-
The case of Porsha Ngumezi, a 35-year-old woman from the Houston area, raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
#Abortion #HealthScience #Healthcare #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Texas #HoustonMethodist #HoustonMethodistSugarLand #Miscarriages #TexasAbortionBan #TexasAbortionLaw #TexasAbortions