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.
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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 –
Read moreA matter of health — The promise of vaccination
By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. My mother was a nurse, and in the small Texas town where I grew up, that
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