Obstetrics

UT Southwestern Medical Center is spread out over several buildings north of downtown Dallas.

March of Dimes launches research collaborative in Texas to address high preterm birth rate

Abigail Ruhman

A nonprofit advocacy and research organization launched a new research collaborative focused on addressing the high rate of preterm births. UT Southwestern in Dallas and UT Medical Branch in Galveston are part of the new Texas research collaborative. The Texas Collaborative marks the organization’s sixth Prematurity Research Center.

An at-home cervical cancer screening test kit sits on a bedside table. The test, which is light blue and teal, resembles a tampon but is longer. It rests on the test kit box which is also blue and teal. The test kit is surrounded by various things on the night stand, including several books and a pair of glasses. In the background out-of-focus, a person is laying on their bed while scrolling on their phone and listening to music.

Health & Wellness

Texans can screen for cervical cancer with first FDA-approved, at-home pap smear alternative

Abigail Ruhman

The FDA approved the first at-home cervical cancer screening in May. Texas is the eighth state to have access to the test as the company rolls the product out state-by-state.

Two women in blue -- one in a UT Arlington polo, the other in scrubs -- stand over a mannequin with a bloody hospital gown and head injury.

Health & Wellness

UT Arlington rolls out mobile health lab to train in rural communities

Kailey Broussard

UT Arlington's Mobile Simulation Lab will provide training around Texas' rural counties, the majority of which have health care shortages.

A woman with an oxygen mask pulled to the top of her head lays in a hospital bed, partially covered in a blue sheet. She looks at a swaddled newborn baby in her arms.

Government

An El Paso woman thought her doctor tied her tubes. The next year, she was pregnant

Toluwani Osibamowo

Grissel Velasco chose not to get an abortion after the surprise pregnancy, but the El Paso woman's lawsuit could determine how a person in a post-Roe v. Wade Texas can be compensated for an unwanted pregnancy caused by medical negligence.

Health & Wellness

An Operating Theater To Handle Quintuplets: Parkland’s New Obstetrics Suite

Lauren Silverman

Ten thousand babies are delivered each year in Parkland Memorial Hospital. This year, there was even a set of quintuplets. When the $1.3 billion dollar…