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Health care
In-depth reporting on public health, healthcare policy, hospitals, and wellness issues shaping communities across Texas, from The Texas Tribune.
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Texas Abortion Restrictions
Texans who perform abortions now face up to life in prison, $100,000 fine
Texas, the largest state to restrict abortions, now has three significant bans on the books, setting up a potential legal minefield.
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Uvalde school shooting
College-bound Uvalde students grapple with leaving a hometown in mourning
The students worry how the tragedy will define them in their new environments and struggle with guilt about the people they’re leaving behind.
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Coronavirus in Texas
T-Squared: We’re sunsetting our COVID-19 data tracker
After nearly two and a half years, we’re no longer tracking daily coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, deaths and vaccinations in Texas.
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Coronavirus in Texas
How coronavirus impacted Texas: Hospitalizations, vaccinations, cases and deaths
From April 2020 to August 2022, the Texas Tribune used data from the Texas Department of State Health Services to track coronavirus hospitalizations, vaccinations, cases and deaths. We stopped updating these numbers in August 2022.
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Texas Abortion Restrictions
Biden administration can’t force Texas hospitals to provide emergency abortions, judge rules
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had said hospitals in states with abortion bans must perform emergency abortions in some instances.
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Health care
Abortion-rights groups sue Texas AG, prosecutors to protect ability to help pregnant Texans seek legal abortions in other states
The suit comes two days before the state’s newest abortion ban, triggered by the overturning of Roe v. Wade, goes into effect.
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Transgender Texans
Watch: With a “feeling of betrayal,” one family flees Texas in search of safer climate for their transgender daughter
Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate parents who provide their children with gender-affirming care, driving one such family to leave home.
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Health care
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joins other key Republicans in supporting repealing the “tampon tax”
Advocates have previously called for repealing the sales tax on products like tampons, sanitary pads and pantyliners. Menstrual products are already tax-free in 24 states.
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Watch: Why some Texas churches support access to reproductive health care despite the state’s abortion ban
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, some faith leaders in Texas rallied in favor of abortion access and offer supportive spiritual counsel for those who have sought abortion.