The aging hospital that served as Dallas’ main safety net and teaching facility for decades was replaced by a gleaming new 2.5 million-square-foot building in August.
Madlin Mekelburg
Madlin Mekelburg was a reporting fellow for the Tribune in 2015 and 2016. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied journalism and French. Madlin previously worked at the Houston Chronicle as both a metro intern in Houston and as an intern in their Austin bureau covering the Texas Legislature.
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Insurance Mergers Raise Concerns with Private Medicare Market
As major health insurance companies move toward consolidation, questions have arisen about whether the marketplace will be able to provide patients with competitive private Medicare programs.
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Cancer Survivor Aids NASA Astronauts Losing Vision
A former cancer patient who has a chemotherapy port still in his skull is working with NASA to help scientists determine why some astronauts on long missions lose their vision.
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Experts Size Up the Impact of Those Plummeting Oil Prices
The upshot here: oil prices might not rebound to previously anticipated levels but unspent revenue cushions the blow to key revenue sources.
