Effects of Dehydration

Health Care Associates 12/1 9:32A Alysen Vilhena

What Is Dehydration? Dehydration occurs when your body loses more fluids than it intakes , leaving your organs without enough liquid resources to work correctly. This may happen on hot days when...

5 reasons why you’re cold after eating

Health Care Associates 11/27 10:46A Alysen Vilhena

Certain foods and eating behaviors can sometimes leave you feeling cold after you eat. However, experiencing chills and feeling cold every time you eat could also indicate you have an underlying...

Can you sweat out a cold?

Health Care Associates 11/22 8:53A Alysen Vilhena

Colds are the most common reason people see a doctor in the United States. Adults may catch a cold up to four times a year, whereas children tend to be exposed more and may contract as many as eight...

Sam Reynolds comes back to football after his fight with cancer

Spectrum News Health 11/18 10:38A Travis Recek

Sam Reynolds returned to the football field last month after months of going through cancer treatments.

New rehab hospital headed to Rockwall, providing 100 jobs

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 11/17 7:17A Plamedie Ifasso

The rehabilitative health care provider building the facility expects to break ground in 2024. Read this to find out how many patients it will serve, the employment impact, when it will open and more.

At least 2 cases of lead poisoning in Texas children linked to recalled applesauce products

Spectrum News Health 11/16 6:08A Christine Sanchez

DSHS has issued a health advisory for tainted applesauce products that are causing lead poisoning in kids.

Dallas County to start construction on its $52 million life science building late December

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 11/9 11:32A Plamedie Ifasso

Construction on Dallas County Health and Human Services’ new $52 million laboratory facility will start in late December, the latest in a wave of building underway or planned in the city's Medical District. The 65,040-square-foot building will be...

Lockton Co appoints Steve Idoux president of its Lockton Dunning Benefits

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 11/9 10:07A Plamedie Ifasso

Lockton Dunning Benefits provides employees benefits consulting services and operates within Lockton Co.’s People Solutions business.

Stages of COPD

Health Care Associates 11/7 6:37A Alysen Vilhena

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD for short, is a common, long-lasting lung disease. It is a progressive disease, which means its symptoms get worse over time. There are several stages of...

StaffDNA catapults from $2M to $145M in revenue as CEO rides another medical staffing rocket ship

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 11/3 7:24A Bill Hethcock

About 10 years after Sheldon Arora founded medical staffing company LiquidAgents Healthcare LLC, he discovered a problem — but one he sensed could be used as an opportunity. That's turned into tens of millions of dollars in revenue and ambitions...

Former Reata Pharmaceuticals CFO steps into new role with California biotech company

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 11/1 8:26A Plamedie Ifasso

Biogen completed its $7.2 billion purchase of Plano-based pharmaceuticals company Reata Pharmaceutical in late September.

USDA ranks Texas 2nd in the nation for food insecurity

Spectrum News Health 11/1 6:16A Antoinette Odom

According to USDA, Texas is the second-most food insecure state, with above average food insecurity between 2020 to 2022.

Are Upper Respiratory Infections Contagious?

Health Care Associates 10/30 4:29A Bailey Wilborn

Are Upper Respiratory Infections Contagious? Upper respiratory infections (URIs) are among the most common viral illnesses in the United States, with children experiencing around seven per year and...

UT Southwestern aims $102M at buildout of new biomedical research tower

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 10/25 8:26A Plamedie Ifasso

UT Southwestern Medical Center is forging ahead with the buildout of its Peter O’Donnell Jr. Biomedical Research Building, part of a wave of real estate projects reshaping the health science campus located near Love Field.

Study links elevated pollution levels to breast cancer

Spectrum News Health 10/24 8:30A Meteorologist Shawnie Caslin

Living in areas with higher levels could increase your risk.