Health • Eric Moon-shong Tang
FINALLY, THE SMOKING GUN. Molecular biologist Eric Moon-shong Tang, of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, knew it was there. So did most other scientists, doctors, and citizens. Now,...
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Ticking Sex Bomb Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones may have earned notoriety for her “have sex like a man” philosophy, but a recent study found that the fictional 40-something’s seemingly insatiable...
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Middle Schoolers Protest Unhealthy School Lunches
In a move that would make healthy-lunch advocate Jamie Oliver beam with joy, a group of Tivoli middle school students staged a boycott of the lackluster lunches on offer in the school’s cafeteria last...
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Win the Weekend: Cars Will Soon Be Driving Us and Other News to Know
Need something to talk about? Here are a few stories that will make you sound like you’re in the know. “The Perry gravy train is back on the track”So said Paul Burka of this week’s news that the...
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How Many Medical Schools Should the Valley Get?
The Rio Grande Valley should concentrate its efforts on getting one medical school for South Texas instead of advancing dueling proposals, state senator Eddie Lucio, Jr., said in McAllen last week. The...
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Achoo! Two of the Nation’s Top Ten Spring Allergy Capitals are in Texas
Feeling a little sneezy, Rio Grande Valley? The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America marked the first day of spring with its 2012 “Allergy Capitals” list of the “most challenging” American cities...
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Getting Closer to Developing a Birth Control Pill For Men
When Carl Djerassi discovered what would become the birth control pill in Mexico City in 1951, the fear, articulated in a U.S. News & World Report cover story from 1966, was that it would unleash...
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The Widening Scandal Surrounding Texas’s Cancer-Fighting Agency
Texas’s state agency dedicated to fighting cancer has been embroiled in controversy in recent weeks after word emerged that it had doled out a $11 million grant to Peloton, a Dallas-based company,...
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Houston Hospital Tweets an Open-heart Surgery
On Tuesday, doctors at Memorial Hermann Northwest in Houston tweeted open-heart surgery, with more than one hundred tweets, photos, and videos. The double-coronary artery bypass of an unnamed...
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Cecile Richards on the ‘Daily Show’
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards sat down with Jon Stewart of The Daily Show on Wednesday. In a two-part interview, the daughter of former Texas Governor Ann Richards talked about...
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Nearly A Quarter of Texas Dogs Are Obese
Burgeoning waistlines aren’t just a human problem anymore: Texas dogs are also fighting the battle of the bulge. A new study conducted by Pfizer Animal Health found that nearly a 25 percent of Texas...
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America’s Flamin’ Cheetos Crisis: Five Things You Need to Know
This just in: Flamin’ Hot Cheetos are not good for you. And America is panicking. As Monica Eng of the Chicago Tribune originally reported, schools around the country have been cracking down on the...
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In Defense of Ted Cruz
God bless Ted Cruz, and pass the popcorn. The sheer volume and variety of complaints against our freshman senator over the past month is a clue that he’s hit a nerve. The question is, is it a nerve...
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How Marshall’s Mayor Turned the Town Vegan
The side of Vicki VanDeCarr’s tote bag reads, “Only kale can save us now.” In Marshall, a growing number of residents believe that slogan is not far from the truth. Barbecue and chicken-fried steak are...
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Dallas Is Considering Prosecuting the Ebola Patient Who Came into the Country...
(UPDATE: Thomas Eric Duncan died from the disease October 8.) When Ebola came to Texas last week, the panic it caused was understandable: Ebola is a horrific disease that kills people effectively and...
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Saginaw ISD Placed an Assistant Principal on Leave for Experiencing Uterine...
Back in January, an assistant principal at Comanche Springs Elementary School, in Saginaw, had a medical emergency: during a district training session, Kourtney Glaser started experiencing a series of...
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What You Should Know About H3N2, The Dog Flu Strain That Hit Texas
With three days until Christmas, people’s travel plans are mostly set, and that includes what they’ll do with their dogs. But there’s an unexpected wrinkle for Texans who are looking for a safe place...
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What You Should Know About Zika In Texas
Tuesday afternoon, the first confirmed case of the Zika virus was found in Dallas. That comes after Monday’s discovery of the virus in Bexar County, and at least seven previously confirmed cases in...
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Texas A&M And The Gates Foundation May Have Created A Supercondom
AIDS prevention—especially in parts of the world where access to HIV drugs is limited—is still a crucial issue, despite the fact that we’ve made so much progress when it comes to treatment. Even with...
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Couple Says Texas’s Laws Forced A Woman To Deliver A Stillborn Baby
Last week, a post on Reddit’s Austin forum told the story of a couple whose much-wanted pregnancy ended tragically. As the poster told it, his wife’s cervix began to dilate at twenty weeks, and the...
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