HEALTH

This Bill Could Give Texas Students Time Off for Period Pain
by Joi Louviere
| May 23, 2025
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A new Texas proposal could allow students to take up to 10 excused absences per year for menstrual disorders like endometriosis or PCOS.

Dallas County Judge Urges Residents to Get Measles Vaccine
by Joi Louviere
| May 21, 2025
The Texas measles outbreak is slowly creeping into DFW.

Texas House signals expanding state’s medical marijuana program
| May 13, 2025
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House Bill 46 would increase the number of health conditions eligible and would offer smokeable products under the state’s medical marijuana program.

6 places that host goat yoga in Dallas-Fort Worth
| May 12, 2025
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Get your bahhh-maste on at these goat yoga classes offered throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

The number of 18-year-olds is about to drop sharply, packing a wallop for colleges—and the economy
by Stacker
| April 28, 2025
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This so-called demographic cliff has been predicted ever since Americans started having fewer babies at the advent of the Great Recession around the end of 2007—a falling birth rate that has not recovered since, except for a slight blip after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control.