How to erase negative self-talk and feel better
StatePoint
It’s been four years since the collective trauma of the pandemic created widespread grief, anxiety and isolation, but the psychological wounds of this period...
TONI SAYS: Enrolling in Medicare with a blocked Social Security account
By Toni King
Hi Toni:
I’m turning 65 in July and not receiving my Social Security check. Last week I tried to open a “My Social...
No link between Ozempic, Wegovy and suicide, EU drug regulators say
By JONEL ALECCIA
AP Health Writer
Drug regulators in Europe have found no evidence that popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are...
US measles cases are up in 2024. What’s driving the increase?
By DEVI SHASTRI and MIKE STOBBE
The Associated Press
Measles outbreaks in the U.S. and abroad are raising health experts' concern about the preventable, once-common...
TONI SAYS: Explaining ‘lifetime reserve days’ in simple terms
By Toni King
Toni:
Why did a hospital medical claims division employee ask my husband James to sign a form stating that he is aware that...
New WIC rules include more money for fruits and veggies. They also expand food...
By JONEL ALECCIA
AP Health Writer
The federal program that helps pay for groceries for millions of low-income mothers, babies and young kids will soon...
How Texas teens lost the one program that allowed birth control without parental consent
By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune
Teenagers come to Access Esperanza’s family planning clinics in the Rio Grande Valley for birth control. They leave with...
CATES: One Change at a Time: Morning rituals
By Carol A. Cates, MSN, MBA, RN
Chief Nursing Officer
Odessa Regional Medical Center
I have been talking regularly for a while now about making one change...
Pediatricians can help teens quit vaping and using tobacco
StatePoint
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States and it almost always begins during adolescence. According to...
TTUHSC hosts autism conference
To help bring awareness to and provide information about autism, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center on Friday held the Permian Basin Autism Education...