During the holiday season the need for adoptions and fostering increases significantly, but now with a respiratory virus ...

When you start to feel sick, it can be hard to tell which respiratory virus you’ve been hit with. The flu and COVID share a ...

The City of Amarillo’s Public Health Department is rethinking its funding model to ensure the future sustainability of the district. Created in 1984 through cooperative agreements between the cities ...

More than 3,500 whooping cough cases have been confirmed in Texas so far in 2025, the highest number in more than a decade.

Most of the media coverage of the federal government's recent cuts in federal research money for universities has focused on ...

New York got rid of religious exemptions in the face of disease outbreaks — then Amish parents sued. Now the Supreme Court wants the 2nd Circuit to take another look at the vaccine mandate case in ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Travis County Judge Andy Brown posted on social media that the county was seeing “increased mpox rates.” ...

While headlines focus on Harvard and Columbia, state universities train far more STEM students, power the nation’s research ...

FDA sought policy recommendations on mental health medical devices, including AI-enabled. After I reviewed submissions, one ...

'Tis the season to eat, drink and be merry, but Austin Public Health warns it has seen more cases of salmonella and norovirus across central Texas. It is a not-so-tasty reminder of how fast foodborne ...

While bird flu is rare in humans, other animals, including domestic cats and dairy cows, are highly susceptible to it.

CDC committee recommendations to no longer vaccinate all infants at birth doesn't sit well with pediatricians. They want you to talk to your doctor before you decide not to vaccinate.