| 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: 15 |
| | by Aneri Pattani The number of students seeking mental health counseling, usually for depression and anxiety, is surging at Texas universities. Three are trying a new online program designed to reach more students. |
| | by Isabelle Taft A baby born with microcephaly in Harris County is the first Zika-affected infant in Texas, the Texas Department of State Health Services announced Wednesday. |
| | by Edgar Walters The Texas Supreme Court on Friday delivered a temporary, last-minute victory to the families of children with disabilities who want to stop sweeping budget cuts to a state-funded children’s therapy program. |
| | by Alexa Ura In a little-noticed effort to regulate abortion providers, Texas health officials have quietly proposed rules that would require abortion providers to cremate or bury all fetal remains. |
| | by Madeline Conway In this week's Q&A, we interview Maria Cooper, a postdoctoral fellow at the Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science on Youth and Young Adults at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. |
| | by Madeline Conway In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights “I'm Disabled... Now What?” |
| | Congressional inaction on funding to combat the Zika virus will put Americans at greater risk during the height of the mosquito season this summer, top medical officials say, now that members of Congress have begun a seven-week summer break. |
| | Brian Williams, an assistant professor of surgery at UT Southwestern, drew national headlines when he spoke about the experiences he’s had with police, both as a black man driving a car and as a trauma surgeon in a time of crisis. |
| | A new study thought to be the largest on gender pay disparities among academic physicians found that female doctors earn roughly $20,000 less than male counterparts and often hold lesser academic posts. |
| | A new technology that enables doctors to test and treat lungs outside the body before a transplant holds great promise for those needing new lungs — and one man from Oklahoma who traveled to Texas for a clinical trial. |
| | Writing as Barack Obama, J.D., President Obama published an article in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association making the case for the success of the Affordable Care Act. |
| | A new $17 million microscope center, the first of its kind in the U.S., allows scientists to study and enhance images at such a detailed level that they hope to design better drugs by knowing in advance how cancer cells behave. |
| | Talk about giving medical groups more time to comply with new rules under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 is welcomed by those who say the original deadline was too short. |
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