As Texas focuses on digital literacy for its elder residents, some Japanese cities are gifting low-cost devices to its older population so family can better monitor them.
Health care
In-depth reporting on public health, healthcare policy, hospitals, and wellness issues shaping communities across Texas, from The Texas Tribune.
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Screwworm in Texas
The U.S. last beat screwworm in 1966. Can current leaders learn from the past’s playbook?
Faced with a modern outbreak that could endure for decades, historical documents are offering officials solutions to eradicate the parasite again.
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Demographics
Census: Texas leads the U.S. in having more kids, but the state’s fertility rate is still falling
Americans aren’t having enough children to maintain the country’s population, a decline driven by factors like the high cost of living.
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Health care
Texas’ big health priorities — dementia research, food labeling and ivermectin — have hit roadblocks
Priorities for Republican leadership last legislative session have either been stuck in the courts or left to linger in the state rulemaking process.
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State Government
Court filings: Unsafe homes and a child death still dog Texas’ foster care system amid improvement
The reports note that in recent years, the troubled child welfare system improved caseworker training and caseloads, but unsafe conditions for children persisted.
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Health care
Austin-area hospitals denied miscarriage care despite clarification to Texas’ abortion ban, federal complaint alleges
Lynn Callaway says she was sent home from two hospitals, despite an infection, due to healthcare providers’ fear of the state’s abortion ban.
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Health care
A Houston drowning tests whether Texas law gives the right to deny brain death testing
State leaders and pro-life groups are siding with 2-year-old Annelise Camp’s family, who are suing to stop Texas Children’s Hospital from testing her for brain death.
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2026 Texas Elections
Paxton breaks with Texas GOP’s anti-IVF platform, saying he supports the procedure
Delegates to the Texas GOP convention recently adopted a platform calling in-vitro fertilization destructive to fetal life.
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Health care
What Texans need to know about upcoming SNAP restrictions
Starting April 1, Texans will no longer be allowed to use food stamps to buy sweetened beverages and candy.
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Screwworm in Texas
USDA has new partners in the fight against screwworm — drones, dogs and fungi
The USDA awarded a combined $105 million to 40 different projects aimed at stopping the spread of New World Screwworm.
