Redesigning the South: Quilts vs. Rebels
Earlier this summer, we asked the design firm 70kft to take on our latest Redesign challenge: coming up with a new symbol for the South to replace the Confederate battle flag. We’ve been following...
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There Were Fewer Black Men In Medical School In 2014 Than In 1978
Oviea Akpotaire and Jeffrey Okonye put in long days working with patients at the veterans' hospital in south Dallas as fourth-year medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern.They're in a...
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Deaths Persist In Youth And Student Football Despite Safety Efforts
We know more than ever about concussions, the permanent brain damage of chronic traumatic encephalopathy and the other physical risks of football.Yet so far this year, at least 19 students have died...
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A 'Breastaurant' That Turns The Tables
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After A Wild Weekend, More Severe Weather Hits Parts Of U.S.
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Veterans Say Trained Dogs Help With PTSD, But The VA Won't Pay
At a warehouse near Dallas, a black Lab named Papi tugs on a rope to open a fridge and passes his trainer a plastic water bottle with his mouth.Service dogs are often trained to help veterans with...
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Gun-Toting Women Give Rise To Firearms Fashion Accessories
Ray's Sporting Goods in Dallas' Oak Cliff is a neighborhood firearm dreamland.It's stocked with the latest pistols, shotguns and AR-15 military-style rifles. Chuck Payne, the store's manager, says he...
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Can Extreme Exercise Hurt Your Heart? Swim The Pacific To Find Out
Any day now, Ben Lecomte will plunge into the Pacific Ocean off a Tokyo beach toward San Francisco. He wants to become the first person to swim across the Pacific. He's already the first person to free...
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In Texas, Uneven Expansion Of Obamacare Sows Frustration
People in Texas are significantly more likely than adults nationwide to report that it has gotten harder to see a doctor in the past two years.The finding comes from polling done by NPR, the Robert...
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Pastoral Medicine Credentials Raise Questions In Texas
You've probably heard of the credentials M.D. and R.N., and maybe N.P. The people using those letters are doctors, registered nurses and nurse practitioners. But what about PSC.D or D.PSc? Those...
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Top Medical Journals Give Women Researchers Short Shrift
When you're settling in to watch a movie, and the music starts playing, it's hard to ignore the names that flash first in the opening credits: The Director. The Big Stars.Name placement matters in...
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Dallas Residents Process Deadly Shootings Of Police Officers
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Robot Used By Dallas Police To Kill Gunman Sparks Debate
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Gun Violence And Mental Health Laws, 50 Years After Texas Tower Sniper
For some people, the attack on police officers by a gunman in Dallas this summer brought to mind another attack by a sniper in Austin 50 years ago – on Aug. 1, 1966. That's when student Charles Whitman...
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The App That Aims To Gamify Biology Has Amateurs Discovering New Species
It's dusk at a park in Dallas, and white sheets are pinned up next to tall trees, fluttering like ghosts in the wind. They've been lit up with ultraviolet lights to attract moths.A handful of people...
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Kratom Advocates Speak Out Against Proposed Government Ban
Kratom is made from the leaves of a tree native to Southeast Asia that is a relative of the coffee plant. According to David Kroll, a pharmacologist and medical writer, farmers and indigenous people...
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Kratom Gets Reprieve From Drug Enforcement Administration
It's been a wild ride for kratom lately.Since Aug. 31, when the Drug Enforcement Administration announced its intention to classify the plant as a Schedule I substance, a group of kratom vendors filed...
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Trump Travel Ban Spotlights U.S. Dependence On Foreign-Born Doctors
Patients in Alexandria, La., were the friendliest people Dr. Muhammad Tauseef ever worked with. They'd drive long distances to see him, and often bring gifts."It's a small town, so they will sometimes...
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Doctor Launches Vision Quest To Help Astronauts' Eyeballs
Spending time in space changes people: Not just their outlook on life, but also their eyesight.For years, a North Texas doctor has been trying to find out what is causing this vision change among...
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In Texas, Abstinence-Only Programs May Contribute To Teen Pregnancies
To understand why teen pregnancy rates are so high in Texas, meet Jessica Chester. When Chester was in high school in Garland, she decided to attend the University of Texas at Dallas. She wanted to...
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Notaries Are Starting To Put Down The Stamp And Pick Up A Webcam
Every year, hundreds of millions of documents are notarized in the United States: wills, mortgages, citizenship forms, handgun applications. And since the founding of this nation, notarizations have...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Resigns As Verizon Completes $4.5 Billion Purchase
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There Are Plenty Of RFID-Blocking Products, But Do You Need Them?
Pickpockets don't actually have to pick your pockets anymore. That's the message you might see on TV or in ads warning that hackers can access your credit card data wirelessly, through something called...
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In Texas, People With Mental Illness Are Finding Work Helping Peers
Recovery coaches and peer mentors – known in Alcoholics Anonymous as "sponsors" — have for decades helped people who are addicted to alcohol or drugs. Now, peer support for people who have serious...
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Mobile App Designed To Prevent Pregnancy Gets EU Approval
There are more than a dozen medically approved methods of birth control, including condoms, the pill and implants.Now for the first time, a cell phone app has been certified as a method of birth...
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More Domestic Violence Shelters For Men Opening
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Hospitals Face Growing Cybersecurity Threats
In the neonatal intensive care unit of Cook Children's Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, a father is rocking a baby attached to a heart monitor. While doctors roam the halls trying to prevent infections,...
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More Money, More Problems For Amazon
This week Amazon became the fourth company in the U.S. worth half a trillion dollars. The online retail giant is in the exclusive club with Apple, Microsoft and Google's parent company, Alphabet....
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Turning To VPNs For Online Privacy? You Might Be Putting Your Data At Risk
Worried about Internet companies snooping on your online browsing? You might turn to something called a virtual private network to protect your privacy. But researchers say these networks can...
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'Smart' Pill Bottles Aren't Always Enough To Help The Medicine Go Down
Editor's note Aug. 23: This page has been updated to correct and clarify some things reported about AdhereTech. Scroll down to the "corrections" box at the bottom of this page for details about what...
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Facebook, Twitter Replace 911 Calls For Stranded In Houston
Many of Tropical Storm Harvey's stranded flood victims haven't been able to get through to 911, compounding their fears. That's when Facebook, Twitter and Nextdoor stepped in.Annie Swinford is one of...
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Scanning The Future, Radiologists See Their Jobs At Risk
In health care, you could say radiologists have typically had a pretty sweet deal. They make, on average, around $400,000 a year— nearly double what a family doctor makes — and often have less grueling...
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Quantity Of 'Skills' Doesn't Mean Quality In Amazon Echo's Alexa
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Art And Death Are Two Things At Once In 'How To Be Both'
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In 'Disaster City,' Learning To Use Robots To Face Ebola
About three hours southeast of Dallas, there's a city that's been hit by almost every disaster you could imagine including earthquakes, hurricanes and even bombs. It's appropriately called Disaster...
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Broken Hips: Preventing A Fall Can Save Your Life
Last October, Jeanette Mariani was an independent 87-year-old, living alone in Dallas and getting around with a walker. Then one night she switched off the light and tried to make her way into bed. A...
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Problems With Your Boss? Try A Chat With The Office Chaplain.
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High Schools Seek A Safer Path Back From Concussion
Nearly half of all reported sports concussions occur during a high school football game or practice. And even when injured bodies are ready to get back on the field, injured brains might not be ready...
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New Hospital Buildings Define Future Of Health Care
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Compression Clothing: Not The Magic Bullet For Performance
Maybe you've seen them in the gym, or even squeezed into them yourself: super-tight T-shirts, leggings, knee and calf sleeves, even tube tops. More and more athletes are wearing compression garments,...
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Compression Clothes' Advantage Could Be Placebo Effect
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Dixie's Tupperware Party Is Not Your Grandma's Tupperware Party
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New Hearing Technology Brings Sound To A Little Girl
Jiya Bavishi was born deaf. For five years, she couldn't hear and she couldn't speak at all. But when I first meet her, all she wants to do is say hello. The 6-year-old is bouncing around the room at...
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Texas Puts Brakes On Telemedicine — And Teladoc Cries Foul
On a recent trip to Chicago, Patti Broyles felt like she was looking at the world from the bottom of a fish bowl."This weather was really cold and rainy and I had a lot of pressure in my sinus areas,"...
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Protesters Demand Police Officer Be Fired Over Pool Party Incident
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Proposed Muslim Cemetery Rattles North Texas Town
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Texas Strives To Lure Mental Health Providers To Rural Counties
In her third year of medical school, Karen Duong found herself on the other side of Texas. She had driven 12 hours north from where she grew up on the Gulf Coast to a panhandle town called...
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Live-In Laboratory May Help Older Adults Live Independently Longer
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Wet Wipes: To Flush Or Not To Flush?
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Suspicious Spouses Monitor Partners Digitally, Divorce Lawyers Say
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