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Baylor Scott & White is renaming a nursing scholarship in the late congresswoman's honor and has contributed to a new nonprofit that will further the causes she championed in office.

The CDC continues to rank heart disease as the leading cause of death in Texas. But that and other chronic diseases don’t have to be killers. So said Dr. David Winter with Baylor, Scott and White. The internal medicine specialist explained why to KERA’s Sam Baker.

Immunocompromised people and those over the age of 50 can now get a second COVID-19 booster shot.

Sometimes it might seem the stress from the pandemic is enough to pull your hair out. Dr. Jonathan Richey, a dermatologist with Baylor, Scott & White in McKinney, talked with KERA's Sam Baker about a condition known as 'telogen effluvium.'

A new study recently presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference found fewer people over 75 are having strokes.

The delta variant has sharply increased the number of COVID hospitalizations. It’s still possible to nurse milder cases of COVID at home. But the standards are higher than when the pandemic first began.

Turning the clocks back to daylight saving time provided an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day at the expense of an hour's sleep in the beginning.

It will be months before the general public can get vaccinated against COVID-19. But those who’ve recovered from it are believed to have antibodies offering protection from the virus.

Current recommendations call for most people to begin colon cancer screenings at 50. But the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force wants to lower that to age 45 — just as the American Cancer Society recommended two years ago. Dr. Clifford Simmang, a colon and rectal surgeon with Baylor Scott White Health, explained to KERA’s Sam Baker why the Task Force recommendation carries more weight.

The intravenous version of remdesivir recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration is given to hospitalized patients. Baylor Scott and White are conducting clinical trials on an inhaled version that might avoid a hospital stay altogether.

About 250,000 people each year get pacemakers implanted to help maintain a steady heartbeat. Infection rates from the procedure are low in the U.S. But a…