by Brant Foy | May 4, 2021 | Health
HOUSTON, Texas — An Australian man and his wife said they are desperate to get home to Melbourne after their flight was canceled more than a year ago. “This is where we stay at. It’s easier for Andre. Everything’s compact, and he can hold onto...
by Melody Meadows | Feb 19, 2021 | Health
When St. David’s South Austin Medical Center ran out of water and lost heat on Wednesday amid a historic cold burst in Texas, the hospital was forced to ask staffers to use trash bags to remove feces from toilets, KVUE reported. That dire scene captured a growing...
by Melody Meadows | Feb 17, 2021 | Health
When someone banged on the door of Daniel Jiang’s Sugar Land house in the early-morning hours Tuesday, he thought the pipes of his home had burst or frozen. It turned out to be far worse. As he and family members raced from their home at the direction of firefighters,...
by Henry Strother | Feb 11, 2021 | Health
Now praised as heroes of the pandemic, nurses and other front-line medical workers have been routinely scratched, bitten or verbally abused by patients. Well over half of Texas’ nurses reported being subject to workplace violence in their career, according to a...
by Brant Foy | Feb 11, 2021 | Health
TUESDAY, Feb. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Although more teens are getting the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, parents’ hesitancy is growing, a new study finds. From 2012 to 2018, more doctors recommended their patients get vaccinated with the HPV...
by Brant Foy | Feb 8, 2021 | Health
The good news is that Texas is finally seeing COVID-19 hospitalizations and cases trend downward after a holiday season marked by a record-breaking surge that pushed hospital systems and health care workers to their limits. The bad news is that there are still more...
