Two Texas researchers received one of the nation’s top honors for biomedical science – the 2016 Passano Award. They received the award for their work laying a foundation for a new class of drugs to battle high cholesterol.
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.
Posted inState Government
The Bookshelf: May 24, 2016
In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Human Superorganism.
Posted inState Government
Texas Losses Mount from Refusal to Expand Medicaid
Hospitals in North Texas will face losses if state leaders continue to refuse Medicaid expansion. Texas could lose federal funds for uninsured care if it does not find a solution before a waiver expires in December 2017.
Posted inState Government
CDC: Eighty Percent of Pools Fail Health, Safety Tests
Routine tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of public pools in five states – including Texas – found that almost eight out of 10 had at least one safety violation and about 1 in 8 had to be closed.
Posted inState Government
Giant Microscopes to Address Illness at Cellular Level
A new $17 million facility at UT Southwestern Medical Center will hold three enormous microscopes capable of providing 3D images of objects at the atomic level.
Posted inState Government
The Brief: Mark Cuban Is Latest Texan To Tout Himself for Veep
As conventions for Republicans and Democrats draw closer, presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle are looking toward the general election and focusing selecting a running mate.
Posted inState Government
Democratic Super PAC Makes Early Buy in Gallego-Hurd Contest
Also, Gov. Greg Abbott kicks off his book tour and a certain tweeting Texas Supreme Court justice pops up on a shortlist of U.S. Supreme Court nominees in a Trump administration.
Posted inState Government
The Brief: Texas Justice Lands on Trump’s Shortlist for Supreme Court
Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett was one of 11 justices named by the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump as potential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court – if Trump is elected.
Posted in
Energy
Report: Texas Must Increase Water Conservation Efforts
Most of the water utilities in Texas need to “substantially increase” efforts to conserve water, according to a recent review of more than 300 city utilities by the Texas Living Waters Project.
Posted inState Government
The Brief: State Leaders React to Obama’s Transgender Directive
Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted a letter seeking clarification on a directive from the Obama administration advising public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms aligned with their gender identity.
