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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
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
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.
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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
The Houston Health Department is tracking individuals who may have been exposed to a Fort Bend County woman who recently contracted measles.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Houstonians have several options for where and when to get their measles vaccine over the weekend and through next week.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #Houston #Local #MedicineWellness #News #HarrisCountyPublicHealth #HoustonHealthDepartment #MeaslesVaccine #MMRVaccine #VaccineClinics #VaccineDrives
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