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Texas Parents Have Unanswered Questions About School Vaccination Rates
by NPR November 18, 2016Enlarge this image When Georgia Moore (second from left) was diagnosed with leukemia in 2010, her parents, Trevor and Courtney Moore, worried…
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Cuts In Texas Medicaid Hit Rural Kids With Disabilities Especially Hard
by NPR November 3, 2016Enlarge this image Intensive home-visits by physical, occupational and speech therapists have been “a lifesaver,” for little Haylee Crouse, her mom Amanda…
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Politics Makes Abortion Training In Texas Difficult
by explainingmedicine June 24, 2016Every year, more than 100 new obstetrician-gynecologists graduate from a Texas residency program and enter the medical workforce. Theoretically, all have had the opportunity during their four years of residency to learn about what’s called “induced abortion” — named that to distinguish it from a miscarriage. But the closure of abortion clinics in Texas — […]
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Can Doctors Learn To Perform Abortions Without Doing One?
by explainingmedicine June 24, 2016Abortion is one of the more common procedures performed in the U.S., more common even than appendectomy. But as clinics in Texas close, finding a place in the state where medical residents training to be OB-GYNs can learn to do abortions is getting harder. “There are places in Texas where there are OB-GYN residents who […]