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Public health policies are a big part of running big cities, and Dallas and San Antonio are being recognized for doing just that.CityHealth, a nonprofit…
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Public health departments have put together a voluntary national accreditation system to hold themselves accountable to the public. The director of…
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Rates of sexually transmitted diseases – gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia in particular – are soaring in Dallas County. Cases of those three illnesses…
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Officials say HIV and AIDS patients in Dallas County may have suffered delays in treatment and other vital services because of mismanagement and…
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Updated, Saturday, 2:15 p.m.A Dallas County employee has released more details about her allegations against Zachary Thompson, the former county Health…
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When the Ebola virus first arrived in Texas, Gov. Rick Perry greeted the grave news with trademark swagger.“There is no place in the world, I will suggest…
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With public school starting in a little more than two weeks, county health departments are seeing more and more families packing their clinics to get…
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A long line formed outside the Dallas County Health and Human Services building on Friday. Most were parents waiting to get their child immunized before…
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Dallas County Health officials are investigating a suspected case of tuberculosis at Thomas Edison Middle Learning Center. County Health director Zach…
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Dallas County Commissioners are rejecting a call from the local medical society for immediate aerial spraying for mosquitoes as the number of West Nile…
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A second West Nile virus death is reported in Dallas County. Health officials say the man was in his 80’s and lived in the Park Cities zip code.This…