Equity in COVID-19: Who will have access to life-saving treatment?
Is treatment available? Can I afford it? These questions are universally asked by many people — from the 65-year-old Medicare recipient at the local pharmacy
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Reducing the DUI legal limit: A spirited debate
Earlier this year, Utah took a key step at reducing one of the key harms associated with alcohol: impaired driving. The Utah state legislature passed
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Zika virus: We dodged a bullet, right?
As the weather turns warm again in Houston, many of us are aware of what’s just around the corner: a hot and humid summer filled
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Adequate nutrition should be priority for whole family
Earlier this year, JAMA Pediatrics published an essay about processed food and its impact on health. The author, Dr. Robert Lustig, describes processed food as
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Soda taxes win big at polls despite industry lobbying
Buried under the headlines of the recent controversial election is a big public health win for five U.S. cities. On Election Day, voters in Boulder,
Read moreA matter of health: How 2015 Nobel Prize drug might rid Africa of ancient scourges
By Dr. Peter Hotez The announcement that the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three scientists who developed antiparasitic disease drugs has
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Electronic algorithms help "find" patients lost in the system
By Julia Parsons In an era when increasing pressures to increase clinical productivity can create data overload and when time is limited, sometimes the critical issue
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Baylor College of Medicine to develop Emergency Smart Pod
By Dipali Pathak Baylor College of Medicine’s Emergency Smart Pod was one of 12 ideas selected for President Barack Obama’s challenge to find innovative tools
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Researchers seek to make mini-guts that mimic life
By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. A five-year, $5.1 million National Institutes of Health grant will help researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University and the
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Appropriate use of aspirin for heart health evaluated
Many people have taken to heart the advice to take an aspirin a day to help prevent heart attacks – maybe too much so. When
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