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One year after the COVID-19 omicron variant began its spread across Texas, doctors are concerned about the effects of “long COVID” — even as case numbers and hospitalizations have declined.

In the days after the Uvalde shooting, state agencies and health care providers went to the community to offer support. One of those people was psychiatrist Sabrina Browne with UT Southwestern Medical Center. She spoke about community healing from traumatic events.

Blue Cross Blue Shield says UT Southwestern Medical Center and Texas Health Resources are pushing to raise prices.

A county judge granted a temporary injunction so doctors at Children’s Medical Center Dallas may be able to treat trans youth through next spring.

A recent UT Southwestern study found people had higher blood pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic. Internal Medicine Professor Eric Peterson says this can have long-term health effects like strokes and heart attacks.

UT Southwestern Medical Center's COVID forecasting model tracks the severity of the virus across the region.

A new COVID-19 variant was identified in South Africa, called omicron. A pathologist from UT Southwestern explains what this means for North Texas.

As COVID case numbers continue to rise in North Texas, new strains have emerged, like the mu variant. But the delta variant continues to cause the majority of infections in the region.

Over the past few months, North Texas has seen a spike in COVID-19 cases, mostly due to the more contagious delta variant. As the pandemic intensifies, local researchers have begun to monitor all the new variants and track all the different mutations.

Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have been spiking the past few weeks across North Texas. An infectious disease specialist from UT Southwestern Medical Center explains what this all means moving into fall.

One reason the medical community pushes for vaccination against COVID-19 is to hold back variants of the disease that have found their way into North Texas.

New figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed the American Medical Association's predictions of higher overdose numbers from illicit opioids during the pandemic – 90,000 nationwide. Texas had 4,000 of those overdoses, the highest number among states.