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The Texas Tribune: Branches Merge to Become Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas
Posted: April 19th, 2012, 7:51pm EDT by By EMILY RAMSHAW
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Three branches of Planned Parenthood have merged to become Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, the national health care organization’s eighth-largest affiliate.
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The Texas Tribune: Texans Lead Battle for Women’s Health
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 1:04am EST by By EMILY RAMSHAW
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In the skirmish between Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood that intensified over the past week, all roads led to Texas.
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The Texas Tribune: Required Delay Between Sonogram and Abortion Creates Logistical Issues in Texas
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 1:32am EST by By EMILY RAMSHAW
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A new Texas abortion law requires doctors to show the fetus to and play the fetal heartbeat for women seeking abortions at least 24 hours before the procedure.
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The Texas Tribune: Required Delay Between Sonogram and Abortion Creates Logistical Issues in Texas
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 1:32am EST by By EMILY RAMSHAW
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A new Texas abortion law requires doctors to show the fetus to and play the fetal heartbeat for women seeking abortions at least 24 hours before the procedure.
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The Texas Tribune: Required Delay Between Sonogram and Abortion Creates Logistical Issues in Texas
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 1:32am EST by By EMILY RAMSHAW
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A new Texas abortion law requires doctors to show the fetus to and play the fetal heartbeat for women seeking abortions at least 24 hours before the procedure.
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The Texas Tribune | Life in the Colonias: Major Health Problems Linked to Poverty
Posted: July 10th, 2011, 9:17am EDT by By EMILY RAMSHAW
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Along the border, water- and mosquito-borne illnesses are rampant, as are asthma and other chronic conditions.
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Behind the Scenes, Plans for Insurance Exchange
Posted: June 10th, 2011, 12:00am EDT by By EMILY RAMSHAW
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While the governor has stated his opposition to a federally-mandated health insurance exchange, the Department of Insurance is busily making plans for one.
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The Texas Tribune: Health Law Response Goes 2 Ways
Posted: January 29th, 2011, 7:13pm EST by By EMILY RAMSHAW
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Lawmakers in Texas are taking steps both to stop the federal health care overhaul law in its tracks and to carry out at least some parts of it.
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The Texas Tribune: On the Border, Long Lives Despite Dismal Statistics
Posted: January 16th, 2011, 3:48pm EST by By EMILY RAMSHAW
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Despite low incomes, health coverage and high school graduation, Hidalgo County residents live two years longer than the United States or Texas averages.
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The Texas Tribune: East Texans’ Bad Health and Bad Habits Promote a ‘Stroke Belt’
Posted: January 14th, 2011, 2:30am EST by By EMILY RAMSHAW
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Life expectancy lags across most of East Texas, which lives up to the grim medical nickname “The Stroke Belt.”
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The Texas Tribune: Shortfall Gives Hope to Disability Rights Advocates
Posted: January 7th, 2011, 1:40am EST by By EMILY RAMSHAW
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Advocates for the disabled hope that Texas lawmakers, facing a huge budget deficit, will have to shutter some of the much-criticized state-supported living centers for the disabled.
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The Texas Tribune: Shift to State System on Care Management Draws Fire
Posted: November 28th, 2010, 3:20am EST by By EMILY RAMSHAW
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Private providers of care for people with disabilities contend that a change in rules passed by the Legislature is unfair to them and has, in some cases, compromised care.