Disease Threat From Immigrant Children Wildly Overstated
by Rachel Pearson / Posted on | 310 CommentsThe Central American kids arriving in Texas are likely to be better-vaccinated than children in Texas.
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Despite Child Deaths, State Likely to Keep Foster Care Contractor
by Emily DePrang / Posted on | No CommentsThe two foster children who drowned on Sunday were placed by an agency owned by a company Texas has contracted to manage foster kids in 60 counties.
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Sunset Commission Issues Brutal Report on Dept. of State Health Services
by Emily DePrang / Posted on | 2 CommentsThe Sunset Advisory Commission will meet next week to hear testimony on its devastating assessment of the Department of State Health Services.
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What Compounding Pharmacies Want From Greg Abbott
by Patrick Michels / Posted on | 1 CommentCompounding pharmacies are suddenly taking an interest in big-name politicians like Greg Abbott, as they face tough new regulations and controversy over supplying drugs for state executions.
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Hope After Violence
by Alex Hannaford / Posted on | 1 CommentWomen are twice as likely as men to experience PTSD. We just don’t talk about it.
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Fostering Neglect
by Emily DePrang and Beth Cortez-Neavel / Posted on | 4 CommentsTexas’ foster care reforms were supposed to fix a deadly system. Instead, they might make it worse.
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Licensed to Kill
by Saul Elbein / Posted on | 33 CommentsWhat legal responsibility does a hospital have to keep a doctor who kills and maims his patients from operating? Under Texas law, none.
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Lawsuit to be Filed Against Most Draconian Part of New Texas Abortion Law
by Carolyn Jones / Posted on | 6 CommentsAbortion rights groups seek to block ambulatory surgical care center rule and to shield El Paso and McAllen abortion clinics from admitting privileges mandate.
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Texas Media Underreports the Costs of Refusing Medicaid Expansion
by Bill Minutaglio / Posted on | 4 CommentsMillions of Texas’ poor people remain uninsured, and their stories go largely underreported.
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The Last Two Rural Abortion Clinics in Texas Close
by Carolyn Jones / Posted on | 21 CommentsA third of Texas’ abortion clinics have now closed due to HB 2, including remaining clinics in the Rio Grande Valley and East Texas. Proponents of abortion rights in Texas predict dire health consequences from the closures.
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