| Welcome to Trib+Health, a health care news wrap-up and analysis prepared every other week by The Texas Tribune and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Keep up to date with UT Southwestern through its Twitter or Facebook accounts. |
| Trib+Health Vol: 2 Issue: 14 |
| | by Alexa Ura, Aneri Pattani and Annie Daniel The number of drug-induced abortions in Texas plummeted in the first full year after the state's strict 2013 abortion law took effect, according to statistics released Thursday by the Texas Department of State Health Services. |
| | by Edgar Walters With two weeks to go before Texas is set to slash a program's funding that pays for therapy services for children with disabilities, therapy providers are announcing new support from state lawmakers to postpone the cuts. |
| | by Alexa Ura The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed Texas abortion providers a major victory by overturning Texas’ 2013 abortion restrictions. |
| | by Madeline Conway Uncertainty over where and when Zika might spread has left Texas women and doctors with questions about how best to prepare for an outbreak — questions as personal as whether women should delay pregnancy. |
| | by Madeline Conway In this week's Q&A, we interview David Herrin, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences. |
| | by Madeline Conway In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Dying and Living in the Neighborhood. |
| | At a Washington summit, Vice President Joe Biden warned that federal funding for cancer trials could be cut if findings are not quickly disclosed and shared by researchers, clinicians and drug companies. |
| | Cancer researchers in Texas are lining up in support of a heavy ion beam radiation therapy center in Dallas, which has also drawn the attention of NASA. |
| | A new study warns of dangers posed by a growing number of treatment centers that offer stem cell therapy directly to consumers with little regulatory oversight. |
| | John J. Warner, vice president and CEO of UT Southwestern Medical Center University Hospitals, will be president-elect of the American Heart Association starting in July. |
| | Congress failed to approve a $1.1 billion bill to battle the growing threat from the Zika virus, leaving only a few working days for officials to reach an accord before they go on vacation until September. |
| | As fans mourned widely-admired basketball coach Pat Summitt, North Texas researchers say her death from Alzheimer’s disease helps raise awareness about potential gains in diagnosis, treatment and cures. |
|
| You are currently signed up to receive Trib+Health. To change how you receive email from The Texas Tribune, click here. If you no longer wish to receive any emails from us, click here. |
| View Trib+Health online here. |
| To contact The Texas Tribune, go to texastribune.org/contact. |
