Public Health Watch rarely covers breaking news, but its investigative reporting is often tied to the news — and sometimes foreshadows it. A case in point: the push to slash health coverage for the ...

About a year after Blanco County launched its community health paramedicine program in 2022, paramedic Wesley Patton was ...

About a year after Blanco County launched its community health paramedicine program in 2022, paramedic Wesley Patton was referred to a patient in the local jail. The man had been arrested on ...

Although a recent poll found that the majority of Texans — 71% — support expanding Medicaid, b ills to join the 40 other states that have taken that step for low-income adults never even got out of ...

Analysis shows EPA rollbacks of the HON rule would put overburdened communities at risk and benefit chemical plants that ...

Drinking water chemical may raise kidney disease risk…microplastics detected in human reproductive fluids…air pollution ...

Native Americans face highest risk for heart failure from metals…multiple health dangers tied to wildfire smoke…public trust ...

The situation is certainly better in Mississippi and Louisiana than it was in the 1960s, but critics say the Medicaid cuts could reverse hard-fought progress. People who live in the Delta are fiercely ...

In March, the Trump administration announced it would reconsider the Biden-era standards for hazardous air pollutants and invited polluters to request exemptions from the rules while they were under ...

Vigilance is key Texas has the fourth highest cervical cancer rate in the nation, with 9.6 cases per 100,000 people compared with 7.5 for the U.S., the National Cancer Institute reports. The state has ...