Despite the spike in demand for measles shots following the deadly 2025 outbreak, exemptions on all vaccines for schoolchildren rose after the release of a downloadable exemption form.
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In-depth reporting on public health, healthcare policy, hospitals, and wellness issues shaping communities across Texas, from The Texas Tribune.
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Vaccination rates in Texas schools have been dropping. Look up the latest vaccination rates in your district.
The Texas Tribune has created a searchable database of the latest vaccine rates for school districts and private schools and how theyโve changed in the last year.
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2026 Texas Elections
Paxton breaks with Texas GOPโs anti-IVF platform, saying he supports the procedure
Delegates to the Texas GOP convention recently adopted a platform calling in-vitro fertilization destructive to fetal life.
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Health care
Maternal health โdeserts’ endanger some Texas women, babies
Of the more than 200 rural counties in Texas, about 70% have no hospital at all or have hospitals that donโt have facilities for delivering babies.
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Health care
What Texas can learn from Japanese cities that give technology to its senior citizens
As Texas focuses on digital literacy for its elder residents, some Japanese cities are gifting low-cost devices to its older population so family can better monitor them.
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Screwworm in Texas
The U.S. last beat screwworm in 1966. Can current leaders learn from the pastโs playbook?
Faced with a modern outbreak that could endure for decades, historical documents are offering officials solutions to eradicate the parasite again.
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Demographics
Census: Texas leads the U.S. in having more kids, but the stateโs fertility rate is still falling
Americans arenโt having enough children to maintain the countryโs population, a decline driven by factors like the high cost of living.
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Health care
Texasโ big health priorities โ dementia research, food labeling and ivermectin โ have hit roadblocks
Priorities for Republican leadership last legislative session have either been stuck in the courts or left to linger in the state rulemaking process.
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State Government
Court filings: Unsafe homes and a child death still dog Texasโ foster care system amid improvement
The reports note that in recent years, the troubled child welfare system improved caseworker training and caseloads, but unsafe conditions for children persisted.
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Health care
Austin-area hospitals denied miscarriage care despite clarification to Texasโ abortion ban, federal complaint alleges
Lynn Callaway says she was sent home from two hospitals, despite an infection, due to healthcare providersโ fear of the stateโs abortion ban.
